In reguards to SE's decision on halting automatic reclamation of housing......

[Lexia]

You can still be pretty invested into a game even if you don't play it for a half a year, its just a lot people can often struggle and get addicted, better to avoid letting the game consume your life and drop the sub for a while until you get a proper itching to go back and play again.

One of my friends however only plays this game for the story, once he's done it all and caught up he drops the sub xD

Well the reclaim is known so if person really value their "investment" that much and still wants to take a break keep paying the sub log in and enter the house from time to time and then go back to their vacation or what ever they want to call it. Otherwise it more of a "i don't want to pay the sub" and falls into same area what I previously said.

People say just by paying their sub they should be able to keep their house, which it pretty much does work that way maybe not they way they exactly want to but it does work that way in a sense.