Forcing players to pay to keep housing is unfair.

[Rymm]

I don't think anyone here is (or would) complain about SE suspending housing demos to help out a large part of their playerbase and employees when the entire country was suffering a major natural disaster. Trying to equate that with some joe-smoe who decides 'meh, I'm bored and don't want to play til the expac hits' is flawed on every level.

I also have absolutely zero sympathy for people who play actively but can't be arsed to pop over to their house once every 45 days. (I timed it and even on my sloooow loading computer it took me 46 seconds to pop from Idylshire to Lav Beds and load into my FC's house.)

And who cares if people get deployed for more than 45 days and can't get access to their game.

You keep mentioning people who get deployed and I can't help but wonder if this is a problem you, personally, have faced or if it is just the most easily defensible example you can think of. In my experience (I'm admittedly not in the military,) most deployed, active duty military still have computer access and are allowed to game in their free time, if they wish. One of my first long-term RP partners was a navy ensign deployed on a ship in the Indian Ocean. And one of our guildies back in WoW was a soldier who played while stationed in Afghanistan.

If you really are absolutely unable to play any time in 45 days, then why on earth would you waste money on a sub to begin with? Real life happens and, sometimes, video games have to take a back seat to it. It's called being an adult and taking the responsibilities and consequences that go along with it. As I said before, I am well aware that these things happen and it has happened to me (to my very painful loss) but it is just something we have to pull up our big-kid pants and accept.

No one is saying they don't care about people who are so sick they're in a hospital dying, or about people who are being deployed overseas to fight for and defend their country. But some of the people commenting in this thread need to take a step back and reconsider their priorities. If a virtual house is more important to you than some of the things you keep bringing up (sickness, military duties/deployment, financial struggles), you most definitely need to refigure your priorities in life.

THIS.