Free Login Event completely undermines inactive housing

[Eadyn]

Yeah! How dare they let people have one last chance to play the game and decide whether or not they want to resub before they lose their house and everything specially crafted in it on Christmas Day? Clearly SE is crazy, these people should lose their house if they don't visit it every day. Because I like to camp outside people's houses and try to take what someone else spent millions of gil on because I was late to the game! Also, everyone that bought a house before me is an opportunistic bot and they don't deserve their house because I want it.

[AnnietheCat]

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No one here is saying remotely close to the hyperbolic nonsense you're using.

I, for one, oppose the reclaiming feature and think that no one should lose what they worked hard on. But I also realize there are people with houses that haven't played since partway through ARR and that if they never come back then their houses would just sit there. SE doesn't plan on fixing the bullshit they gave us, and this is the only hope of some to have access to housing. So yes, it is unfair to those who have waited all this time for a house. If someone is only going to log in for a free weekend or free month or whatever, knowing they don't plan to resub, this does undermine the reclaim feature. Yes, I have a house, and my fc does too. But if I were to unsub without intent of coming back, I wouldn't want people to be locked out of a plot or two because of it. That's unfair. So if this is what SE is giving us, we have to make the best of it. It's bullshit, I know, and the destruction of rare items is complete and utter bullshit, I know, but this is what we've been handed. I've said it before and I'll say it again, SE gave us a pile of shit and called it chocolate ice cream. So if you'd like, rail against SE for their bullshit, but don't take it out on people who have been locked out of housing since early this year. If someone unsubs with no intent on returning(and I've seen many) and they log in to a free log in period for the sake of resetting their timer, it's really really unfair to those people who are still actively subbed. No one is demonizing people who actively own their houses. And you don't have to go to your house every day. hell, every 30 days would keep your house. Players are just understandably irritated with those who are unwilling to give up their houses even if they don't play or use them.

And it's understandable that no one is willing to give up their plots. Without a sell back feature, there's no point in just giving it up and people are opting to just stay away from their houses for 45 days just to get 80% of their gil back. Something that would massively improve the housing situation would be a combination of a sell back feature, removing the binding nonsense from basic furniture and only have it apply to rare furniture; they could even make it so that rare furniture can't be put into a company chest(like with some items we already own) just to stick to their bs excuse of "maintaining the rarity". People would be more willing to give up their unused plots under those conditions. But as the system is, who wants to lose their millions of gil and ridiculously expensive furniture?

TL;DR: SE dropped the ball, and I can see both sides of the argument. But the fact of the matter is that this is what we were given, so it's all they got. There are teensy tiny changes they can make to improve housing for everyone, but they consistently refuse to listen to reason where housing is concerned. This isn't the fault of people with houses(except those who abandoned their house or have multiple houses on a single server) or people without; this is the fault of SE for giving a finite resource and telling us this is the best they can do.