Forcing players to pay to keep housing is unfair.

[Masekase_Hurricane]

Tying housing demolition strictly to just paying your subscription would just make it even easier for people to continue to hold on to plots they aren't using. If it is so hard for people to just ENTER their estate ONCE every 44 days, then I really don't think that they should even be owning one. Because to do so literally only takes a minute out of your playtime, and if you can't be bothered to do that then... I'm sorry, but it makes absolutely no sense to me to invest so much time in saving up anywhere from 4 to 50 million gil (which can take some considerable time and effort), and then buy a house and NEVER MAKE GOOD USE OF IT.

You say that demolition is to prevent the wards from turning into ghost towns of homes that were owned by people that left the game ages ago, and not about giving up the plots to people that would use them, but that is kind of what the demolition is about: kicking those who didn't bother to enter their house for 45 days, and giving those who want to purchase a plot the opportunity to do so. Unfortunately, there is no guarantee that the next owner would actually use it, and I know there's nothing that can really be done about that other than kicking them as well if they also don't bother to enter it once every 45 days.


It's also worth pointing out that the OP wanted to keep their plot, but at the same time, take a break and NOT have an active subscription. If housing demolition was based on active sub time, and houses were demolished if people didn't pay their sub in 45 days (like you suggest), then the OP would probably have still lost their plot anyways. Since they were complaining about "feeling pressured" to pay money monthly for the game in order to keep a house.

This^^ People are already doing this by coming online once every 45 days to reset the timer. Yet doing nothing with their house. We have a mansion in our ward that has been virtually empty for a year and a half it has 5 items in it a garden and a stable. They log on to pay the sub as we see the player appear every few weeks. I am glad they are forced to log on.