My absence and return - thoughts on demolished houses

[Naunet]

Se doesn't care at all about your house or your thread. They have paying customers to worry about. Besides, weren't you leaving?

Paying customers dislike this system, too. Theoretically, SE should also be interested in player retention.

[Nerfworthy]

Sorry about your items, but even after their email warnings and the actual demolition taking place, you still had another 35 days to login and collect 80% of the purchase price as well as most of the items (which would have included the cherry trees).

I understand this, but at the time I quit because of personal issues in my life so I wasn't exactly checking email at the time. I think it's a ridiculous practice. The items don't need to be demolished. They should just be returned to my inventory or mailed to me.

[ManuelBravo]

I understand this, but at the time I quit because of personal issues in my life so I wasn't exactly checking email at the time. I think it's a ridiculous practice. The items don't need to be demolished. They should just be returned to my inventory or mailed to me.

While I feel bad about your situation and understand RL comes into affect you have to remember SE isn't a mind reader. They have problems of their own, specially with housing. They did their part and while RL can effect a person we all have a sense of responsibility to some extend and must take responsibility for our own actions. Why should SE hold on to a persons belongings for over a year when they aren't even paying a subscription? If you were someone could have logged in for you and just log back off once a month in your home. You had options and while I don't know your situation I too have had it rough and this game is what help me cope. Why should SE even mail you your stuff? They provide a service and agree to their terms of use. To blame them for lack of planning is just avoiding responsibility.

That is all to say that permanently deleting houses and all its content is an easy way to permanently lose subscribing players. You absolutely lost my business because of this. We'll see if I can stomach the loss and start playing again.

As per the originator, claiming to go on a short break and being two years is kind of sad. He should of known this would happen. His lack of planning and avoiding to read how it works demonstrates that people don't take the time to fully understand how a system works. To place the idea of losing subscription do to lack of planning on a company that did their part is just an example people who lack commons sense and think that of the customer is always right, we all know most of the time they are wrong. They are entitled to their opinion , but the facts say otherwise.

[Beckett]

I can't believe how many people didn't read the entirety of the OP before writing a kneejerk reaction. 90% of the comments and complaints in this thread were addressed in the very first post, for anyone that cared to read it.

[Ailis]

I can't believe how many people didn't read the entirety of the OP before writing a kneejerk reaction. 90% of the comments and complaints in this thread were addressed in the very first post, for anyone that cared to read it.

This. You guys are jumping on this guy's throat when in fact he was complaining about the system and not about the house itself. Let's be real, he's not the first or the last person to be unhappy with how housing works in this game.

[DJMau]

Really sounds like a case of not reading up on how the system works to me. Also, it's not like SE knew that he was ever gonna come back

[Naunet]

I can't believe how many people didn't read the entirety of the OP before writing a kneejerk reaction. 90% of the comments and complaints in this thread were addressed in the very first post, for anyone that cared to read it.

Really sounds like a case of not reading up on how the system works to me. Also, it's not like SE knew that he was ever gonna come back

Case in point. XD

[MaikoRaines]

I definitely planned on subbing again, until they decided to hold my house hostage behind a subscription. So I let SE shoot the hostage and took my business elsewhere.

Okay... so you were aware of it already but still said screw it. But came back to tell S-E that you didn't care but you actually do. Is this like...Schrodinger's House or something?

I can't say you'll get a lot of sympathy here from many of us. There's two major housing issues as it is right now and someone who had the chance to come back and save it, but didn't, and is now complaining about it gets no sympathy from me at least. We're dealing with S-E's backwards housing issue that is broken and allows people to use their alts to buy multiple houses and we're also dealing with a real shortage because of said S-E issues and just greedy house hoarders in general.

People like myself who are actively subbed and who have FCs that are looking for houses tend to be a bit more on the totem pole than someone who takes a free 7 day trial only to come back and QQ about it. I agree the 45 day demolish system is a flawed system built on another flawed system, but you should probably take a few steps back and realize how ridiculous you sound with that very quote.

1.0 player here who went a long while without housing digs. Your "occasional" subscription means nothing to S-E, much less your reasoning for letting it go in the first place when you knew you could of done something about it. That is, if you actually gave a damn in the first place.

You guys are jumping on this guy's throat when in fact he was complaining about the system and not about the house itself. Let's be real, he's not the first or the last person to be unhappy with how housing works in this game.

Before anyone says similar to me, I know the systems S-E put into the housing is absolute garbage and flawed, but it's the fact he KNEW he had a chance to save it and did nothing about it. Then says he's "taking his business elsewhere"

Best advice: Say nothing and take your business elsewhere. Instead of having multiple boots to just one throat. Saves an argument with half the forums.

[mylam]

I get the OP's gripe with the system, I experienced something similar. I didn't choose to let the FC house get demolished though, I actually didn't even know that would have happened.

I have no problem in removing an empty house so that someone else can grab it, I understand that desire, but I can't believe that SE wouldn't compensate or give you the gil equivalent back to the FC chest or something. That's the worst part of it all. I don't care if there's a timer, since it's limited plots/space, it makes sense to demolish things that go unused, but SE needs to reimburse the gil to the FC in case the players do return and want to purchase a house again.

That's the problem we're faced with now, we had a lot of people in the FC pool together and buy a house before, but then everyone left and the house got demolished. We then had a few people want to return (myself included), but none of us had the funds to buy another house, even if we pooled all our gil together. Just sucks to know that the effort you put in before can't be returned in some form to help you if you ever choose to come back to the game after a period of time.

[Clethoria]

I can't believe how many people didn't read the entirety of the OP before writing a kneejerk reaction. 90% of the comments and complaints in this thread were addressed in the very first post, for anyone that cared to read it.

Every post longer than 2 paragraphs needs a tl;dr because tl;dr.