Time on House removal/reclaming is way to short! (private houseing)

[Jpec07]

I wonder how much of this is affected by their being in data centers, rather than using a scalable cloud solution for their servers. Machines in data centers cost a lot more to run than virtual servers, and there are ways that you can make virtual boxes scale with traffic and demand extremely easily. This would translate to servers that add wards when everything is full, or that completely save reclaimed player and FC houses with an option to restore into a new plot.

To the original point, I'm seeing that most of the people in this thread hold the opinion I agree with: in order to properly maintain the bottom line, SE needs to show preferential treatment with limited resources to paying customers. So yes, this is absolutely a bid to drive subscription retention and generate additional revenue. That's what businesses do. Asking SE to foot the bill for keeping your house active while you're not even paying them is absurd--and it's incredibly generous that they're giving even a portion of the house's contents back.

The only somewhat valid counterpoint is hardware failure, but asking them to plan for slipshod hardware is a bit absurd (it's like blaming Best Buy for selling out of the 50 UHDTVs they had for $2 on Black Friday because your car broke down on the way). But even still, it's not as if you lose everything in this case, and working up the additional .5M-30M Gil to repurchase a plot so you can restore your house when you come back should not be too difficult.

[FoxyAreku]

As a personal house owner, I think the time should be lower tbh.

If you don't play for a whopping 45 days then you don't deserve your rented corner of the server, simple as that. You can take your gil and buy a new house when you come back.

[Solarra]

If you don't play for a whopping 45 days then you don't deserve your rented corner of the server, simple as that. You can take your gil and buy a new house when you come back.

I'd agree with you if all items of furniture were able to be reclaimed and if those items were stored for longer than a month. Your characters are stored indefinitely, why not your house contents?

I don't have a house and I'd stand to benefit from your proposal but I don't think it would be fair.
Remember, Square told people explicitly that property would not degrade. I understand why they have gone back on that and I'm hoping to get our FC a house from the reclamation, but they still need to take into consideration those people who took them at their word.

[Nymeria2x]

Simple solution- Remove the Authenticator to let someone you authorize to log in and put it back on afterwards. You can do this via any web browser or even your phone.

Just LOL why in the hell would any sane person take their authenticator off unless they were moving it to a new device? I started playing WOW way back before authenticators were a thing. My account was stolen 3 times. Twice by keyloggers trolling gaming forums and once by an ex roommate who sold the account and my computer. There is no way I will ever play another MMO without an authenticator. As to your point over Ultima and Archage. FFXIV is a different game and the fact that YoshieP specifically promised never to implement a system like those games and turned right around and did it because they screwed the pooch on the housing system from the beginning should be enough to have all the players up in arms.

[FoxyAreku]

I'd agree with you if all items of furniture were able to be reclaimed and if those items were stored for longer than a month. Your characters are stored indefinitely, why not your house contents?

I don't have a house and I'd stand to benefit from your proposal but I don't think it would be fair.
Remember, Square told people explicitly that property would not degrade. I understand why they have gone back on that and I'm hoping to get our FC a house from the reclamation, but they still need to take into consideration those people who took them at their word.

If you care about your primal and other irremovable housing items then you shouldn't unsub for 45 days.
IDK, maybe I'm weird, but none of those items are incredibly hard to get a second time, nor are they fancy enough to throw a fit over losing. My two cents, anyway.

[Zorlinta]

If you care about your primal and other irremovable housing items then you shouldn't unsub for 45 days.
IDK, maybe I'm weird, but none of those items are incredibly hard to get a second time, nor are they fancy enough to throw a fit over losing. My two cents, anyway.

Just the trouble is not that suscription be active, is that you must log in and get inside of your house. So if you keep suscribe for 90 days cycle, and you are not able to log in by 45 days within those 90 days you already pay, say bye bye to your house.

[Lexia]

If you paying your sub and you can't log in have someone you trust log in for you, yea yea people will try to say that is breaking ToS but SE don't know who that person behind the keyboard is. Anyways most people if they play on PC already break the ToS by using a parser.

[Nicobo]

If you paying your sub and you can't log in have someone you trust log in for you, yea yea people will try to say that is breaking ToS ....

But for this not allowed to "let someone logon for you" is stated in the TOS explicitly while using a parser is officially implied "no problem if no one knows"^^;

[Lexia]

But for this not allowed to "let someone logon for you" is stated in the TOS explicitly while using a parser is officially implied "no problem if no one knows"^^;

Must not read all of my post, anyways guess you follow the rules of everything perfectly all the time then? (even outside the game) I'm just saying that if people think SE is doing them so wrong with such a short timer and they really want to keep their house they going to go that route.

[Nicobo]

Must not read all of my post, anyways guess you follow the rules of everything perfectly all the time then? (even outside the game) I'm just saying that if people think SE is doing them so wrong with such a short timer and they really want to keep their house they going to go that route.

Sorry for confusing you. I just want to say the TOS is too funny as even Yoishi said something like "no problem if no one knows"
but the fact actually would be "no problem even everyone knows" ^^;

i.e
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...%5Co-Lich-DSIS