Even with Auto Demolition on Existing Housing Supply is NOT Sufficient

[worldofneil]

I will only leave an example of a person who clearly no longer plays and still has his house intact

Adding to the above, XIVDB's last active is the last time that site sees you do anything. As in gain exp, unlock an achievement, etc. They have no idea when you actually login, only what's on your public lodestone page so it's more of a guideline than actual fact.

If you login to just to go into a house, they won't see that hence the last active date is wrong.

And you probably should remove the persons name from the post because it's (sort of?) naming and shaming which is very against forum rules and is bannable...

I do understand what your argument is though, you want SE to change it so you need to do more than login and walk inside, but there's already complaints from home owners that having an active subscription should be enough and having to go inside the house is too much etc.

[Dzian]

I do understand what your argument is though, you want SE to change it so you need to do more than login and walk inside, but there's already complaints from home owners that having an active subscription should be enough and having to go inside the house is too much etc.

It is too much really. Back in the day Yoshi said the housing system would not require active subscriptions or anything like that. he called that an archaic system that belongs in the past or something and that it would not happen in xiv. it's in one his live letters I cant remember which exactly. so the system in place is a direct contradiction to that statement.

and again. if one of my friends goes on a 3-6 month tour of duty he shouldn't risk losing his house when he comes back

Q: Will there be any maintenance fees or other costs for housing, besides the cost of the land and house?

A: In older MMOs, such as Ultima Online, there was a house maintenance fee you had to pay weekly, but in FFXIV: ARR we decided against this system. Similarly, these older MMOs also had a system where your house would break down if you didn’t log in after a while in order to have you continue your subscription, but this is a thing of the past and we won't have any system like that.

At the end of the day the demolishion system shouldn't exist at all. if someones spent millions on there house and then takes a break for whatever reason.