Forcing players to pay to keep housing is unfair.

[Kaethra]

You don't wanna pay? There's other people who would pay to have your house. In a world where housing is limited, there is no such thing as fair or unfair for you. As much as I hate the word, entitlement is what I smell from this post.

I'm sorry that money is tight though but the reality is the reality.

I dunno.. if I have a buddy of mine deploy. It'd be nice if his stuff remained intact when he came back. In that case the absence is pretty much ensuring we all get to keep our housing in this game. I'm certain with recent events that our Japanese counterparts would likely agree with this as well.

The best thing to do is to open more districts as they fill. Limiting it to 2100 where a server likely has nearly 10x that, is not a good system. Especially since Free Companies share the same spots.

[Niwashi]

In a world where housing is limited, ...

But that "if" negates your argument. What the OP was complaining about as unfair is the very fact that housing is limited. Why, in a game that we're all playing, and have all paid for, can only a few of us get housing? Unlimited housing would be far more fair to everyone, and is well within SE's capabilities, but they chose not to offer it.

Given that it is limited, yes, the reclamations are unavoidable. But that doesn't excuse SE for the decision to limit it in the first place.

[LaylaTsarra]

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 my (to my very painful loss) but it is just something we have to pull up our big-kid pants and accept.

That's their choice isn't it? If they elect to pay they shouldn't lose what they're paying for. And it's not a question of being an adult, it's a personal choice. You shouldn't be the one making that choice for them.

[Clawbriar]

Maybe a better solution would've been to give us the apartments way back in 2.3 and kept housing to Free Companies. Hindsight and that.

[Dustytome]

The best thing to do is to open more districts as they fill.

Unfortunately the current system won't allow that. They'd need to make instanced housing that isn't tied to wards.

[Glenfiddich]

I could be hospital dying.

A friend of mine died in December 2016. He was there from the beginning. He had everything from Raids in his Haus.
At the end he built a Moggle-House. Everything was gathered and crafted by himself. The House was full of of amazing stuff.
You can imagine that it has cost him a huge amount of time and gil.
Now that he is dead this House would stay empty forever. A Museum, nothing more.
I think it was a good decision, made by SE, to demolish houses and and make it possible to others to purchase a House.
Even if it's hard to see that my friend's House now has vanished.

[LaylaTsarra]

Unfortunately the current system won't allow that. They're need to make instanced housing that isn't tied to wards.

I totally agree that instanced housing should be added to what currently exists. Apartments were a step in the right direction, at the least giving people access to the housing wards. Sadly, the implementation relative to the actual apartment design could have been a lot more than simply a clone of a FC room in my opinion.

Oddly enough one doesn't have to enter an apartment to keep it. One doesn't even have to pay a sub.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

I totally agree that instanced housing should be added to what currently exists. Apartments were a step in the right direction, at the least giving people access to the housing wards. Sadly, the implementation relative to the actual apartment design could have been a lot more than simply a clone of a FC room in my opinion.

Oddly enough one doesn't have to enter an apartment to keep it. One doesn't even have to pay a sub.

There are also a LOT more apartments that houses, since they are essentially FC rooms.

[LaylaTsarra]

There are also a LOT more apartments that houses, since they are essentially FC rooms.

I was personally disappointed that given the housing shortage that SE developers didn't do a lot more than simply clone FC rooms and call them apartments. They could have had more than one room, a different layout, and pleasing design. I think they missed an opportunity to make people a lot happier about owning one.

[HyoMinPark]

I totally agree that instanced housing should be added to what currently exists. Apartments were a step in the right direction, at the least giving people access to the housing wards. Sadly, the implementation relative to the actual apartment design could have been a lot more than simply a clone of a FC room in my opinion.

Oddly enough one doesn't have to enter an apartment to keep it. One doesn't even have to pay a sub.

I agree with the idea that there needs to be more housing (instanced or not), because I dislike how limited it is. I can afford a medium plot right now, but can't get one since all the wards are full on my server. However, there's a difference between the apartments/FC rooms and personal/FC housing. The apartments/FC rooms are not in such limited supply like housing plots are, so they really can't be used as a decent comparison. Apples to oranges.

People aren't sprinting towards empty apartments the day after release like they were when Wards 9-12 were added. I'm honestly very underwhelmed when it comes to the apartments. 500k for an independent FC room. They could have at least made them a little bigger. :/