Forcing players to pay to keep housing is unfair.

[ToasterMan]

I would just like to point out the irony of this statement on the Final Fantasy XIV forums in the context of the history of Final Fantasy XIV.

That is all.

SE got lucky with it. Just like how Nintendo initially scored with the Wii. Only reason they did it was because a competent developer knew how he could make the game popular, and SE saw a long term investment gain from it. The plan was to emulate WoW and make it a big love letter to everything Final Fantasy. SE wouldn't have done it if they didn't know how to save this game nor if they thought that it wouldn't have resulted in a long term gain. Nintendo knew the Virtual Boy was a failure and they didn't know how to fix it. They didn't see any gain from it so they dropped it.

SE doesn't see the housing issue as a huge deal at the moment. If players REALLY wanted housing so bad, there wouldn't be any open plots on dead servers like Goblin or Zaelra. SE knows this so rather than pour resources into something that they don't even have a plan for, they leave it and instead put resources into projects that they know will work.