Forcing players to pay to keep housing is unfair.

[Alleo]

The stuff from our houses are still only saved for a certain amount of time and after that are destroyed. Also why only get back 80% of the Gil? Its a virtual good..why not get back 100%?
Also if someone plans to play a game for years..one month is not much.

The problem is also that the demolish is not paused even if you have a active subscription since you need to log into the game too. So if someone needs to get abroad for maybe three months he will still lose his house even if he pays three months..how is that fair? Why do we decide if someone does need or not need a house? Why are we completely alright with punishing players for something they might not even wanted to happen? If SE has thought their system through none of this would even be a problem..yet they created that horrible housing system that will always leave the majority of the people without housing...even having a timer of one week inactivity would not solve that problem..but as long as the players are fine with punishing others than why should SE even change the system?

Someone might have bought a big house for themselves before the timer..they put millions of Gil in it which had to be earned before that, played the game for years, always stayed subbed, bought merchandise and much more..and because they landed in the hospital for months thanks to an accident they will lose the house since even if they still pay the sub in the time they are not able to have someone log in for them..well that fair right? I mean how dare that person got hurt and not log in for some time..

Yes there might be some people that will never come back and will block that house, but they just could have simply made the timer much more longer..half a year without a sub would be a nice indicator if someone is still playing this game or not (at least two patches would be out at that time) and if the person still pays their sub..why exactly would SE care if they are logging in or not? Why would you care? Heck even if someone is subbed and visit their house once each 45 days they could barely do anything with it.

Its also completely telling to see some people post for pro timer that at the same time already said that they own multiple houses...how about a solution to that? How many houses would finally be free if every person could only own one personal and one FC house per world? (And not be able to buy those too on their alts) How many FCs own multiple houses just for wanting them to sell..yet its probably better to just punish someone that owns one house, worked hard for it, wants to keep it and just wants to take one break for the game or even was forced to take a break thanks to some real life stuff..

Really I am just shocked how harsh and punishing this community can be...

I'm a houseowner and I support the timer because it's better for the player base as a whole than not having one. To me it seems the people who want the timer removed are the ones thinking just for themselves, because they want to take indefinitely long breaks and don't care about the impacts of having more and more houses abandoned by those who don't return. Any shared/limited content must be able to be recycled to active players.

I also don't want to see an overhaul to the system (I will never support content being removed), but rather additional wards, Ishgard wards and also instanced houses of all sizes (no timer) with a yard included.

But the problem is that we are not even talking about indefinitely long breaks..we are talking about taking breaks that are longer than 45 days...which is not even two months..If SE said that they would make a timer of half a year without being subbed than way more people would understand that and if they at the same time said that they will introduce personal instanced limitless housing soon than I can say that barely anyone would complain..but right now we already know that 4.0 housing will be the same as before so even after all the time they do not plan to fix this system. They had years to change it and yet the only solution is punishing those that might want or need a break and at the same time introducing the limited apartments where they also did not increase the amount after they were sold out..(so many broken promises regarding housing..)

I also want the timer removed but I do not plan to take a xx break. I just dont find it fair and kinda lazy from SE..Also I might not know how many houses opened up thanks to the timer on other servers but at least on Moogle you barely see houses open up and I am someone that checks it every time I log in. And even if they open up they are gone really fast because even if you have to be active each week to keep your house there would never be enough houses for ever active player..especially since people can still buy them with alts.

The timer is no real solution to the problem...its only a bad band aid which wont change the overall situation much and yet punish those that genuinely want to continue playing the game but just need to take a break or are forced too..