Player Assets deleted (Housing)

[OliviaJ]

I'll give you this, at least you are understanding that your house isn't there anymore and seem like you agree with the reason behind it. It would be nice if they kept that data for longer though. Maybe it's more of an incentive to get people to re-sub. You know it's likely possible since they kept your character info. What lot did you have anyway?

[Donze]

I'll give you this, at least you are understanding that your house isn't there anymore and seem like you agree with the reason behind it. It would be nice if they kept that data for longer though. Maybe it's more of an incentive to get people to re-sub. You know it's likely possible since they kept your character info. What lot did you have anyway?

Believe me, i tried. I almost felt like i was consuming too much precious Ticket Response time from others. I asked, extensively, even offered to pay a service fee to get a 'elevated tech' on it. Suggested I would compensate say 50$ for the recovery (when i was initially researching and in denial "they can't have decided on this, i must be missing something" mode, one reddit user had the cactars to suggest that for that money, you could just buy the gil, which any decent Hero of Eorzea would be offended by. The gil was certainly one part, but the memories man! The items there are all memories!)

I believe i was in 6 or so. Private lot, center back left, Small house just at the bottom of the west ramp from from Lavander Beds Center Back Market board. You could sprint jump off the cliff directly from the board into the front yard. But the location of the house is of little or no consequence compared to all the great memories arranged in that house. The bath/spa alone was the venue of some great and hilarious hang-outs. Not sure i can even remember what the bench out front under the tree next to the melons in water looked like, but i remember the friend that, in protest to me needing to tank in a raid instead of barding, sat on the bench attempting to spread word of the injustice of it all to passersby in a show of solidarity, like 12 hours a day for 7 straight days until next raid...ha! Everything there had a story, a memory, the very PLOT point of FF14 (losing the memory of the heros that saved the land, but honoring them nonetheless) and it feels off or wrong for the policy to be 'delete it'.

I'm far too much of a gamer (or too rational?) to think i should get the lot. Absolutely not. By all means pack it up. But deleted? What screams "stay away, dont log in!" more than deleting players hard work? Even if you are actively still subbing, thats no excuse to be able to camp on a lot when others may want to buy, but by the twelve, just hang onto or extract a 150KB text file of the (what is the cap? 75 items for small house?) players memories in the form of items, the gil, and give him/her a reason to return rather than the opposite.

While researching if there was anything I could do to recover the gil/items, i was bombarded with people that said "no, Square Enix doesnt delete anything, its on the vendor" and as much as I hate the phrase "raise awareness", I thought it appropriate to articulate plainly that 45 days no house visit means deleted and to make the suggestion for a paid service on mogstation in lieu of discouraging former homeowners from ever returning.

Stay Safe Adventurer!

[OliviaJ]

Oh see that's how the wards used to be. They are feeling a bit empty nowadays. It sounds like you've retained your memories though. Gil is easy to recover. Some of those housing items are gone forever, sure. I'm sure you can pick up the pieces though. Plots still open once in a while. FC's are still recruiting. Come back for future good times!

[Donze]

Oh see that's how the wards used to be. They are feeling a bit empty nowadays. It sounds like you've retained your memories though. Gil is easy to recover. Some of those housing items are gone forever, sure. I'm sure you can pick up the pieces though. Plots still open once in a while. FC's are still recruiting. Come back for future good times!

Believe me, I want to, but I am a man of principles. I am just praying that Square Enix sees the light (or the money) and offers a paid recovery of the gil and items, otherwise I am wary to commit to another investment and labor of love while in the hands of ill-responsible stewards. I hope the opportunity to makes more memories like the stuff in that house and these pictures convey comes along when/if SEnix sees reason. (Kat's pics are from early in FF14 ARR's life, i mean, darklight, but THATS the kinda stuff you'd think a company would like to foster while getting paid a subscription, not the kinda stuff it deletes)