In Regard to Housing in Patch 4.1

[Combination-NC]

Why should we, as multiple plot owners, be punished for SEs failure of a housing system? We didn't violate any rules to get our plots, we shouldn't have them taken away from us so that people who will likely never even use them can buy them up and then forget they exist until its time to reset the demo timer. I made a post about this in the other thread, but I'm seriously annoyed by people saying that people who own multiple houses are whats wrong with the housing in this game.

It's not about punishment. If the rules about housing changes, it needs to change for everyone. Back when they decided that not subscribing for 45 days would lose you your house, people were upset, and I can understand that. It was a change from the original allowances for house owing. But it wasn't a punishment, it was an attempt to deal with the lack of housing when they didn't want to add more wards because of server strain or whatever. This wouldn't be a punishment either. And how can you know the people who would buy up the houses wouldn't use them? How can you know it won't be one of the people that have waited for years to get one?

I'm not saying people owning multiple houses is what's wrong with housing. There are many, many things wrong with housing as it works now. But one person owning four houses means three other goes without and miss out on a part of the game, and that's not ideal. Still not as a big a problem as house flippers, but if they can't deal with the house flippers without legit multiple house owners being affected, well. I think dealing with the flippers should take priority even they can't do it without affecting multiple owners.

[Siniztor]

Back when they decided that not subscribing for 45 days would lose you your house,

This change was never made the change was not using your house for 45 days.. big differnce taking away a house someone hasn't used in 45 days then taking away a house being used...

"Private housing that has not been accessed by the owner within forty-five days."
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...3e7ccabefa9954

[Penthea]

This change was never made the change was not using your house for 45 days.. big differnce taking away a house someone hasn't used in 45 days then taking away a house being used...

Just so you know you're technically wrong. If you haven't subbed for 45 days since your sub ran out then you don't have the means to enter your house for 45 days. The demolition timer is so short that you have to keep your sub active close to constantly.

I agree that people who use their houses often should have more rights to own a house than those who don't, but that's not how ownership works. If a player buys their house and decides to do nothing well that's just them doing what they want with it. There are no rules regarding empty houses. The demolition timer is just something that takes housing away from players who entirely neglect the most basic use of their house and/or cannot login or renew their subscription.

[Leloa]

This change was never made the change was not using your house for 45 days.. big differnce taking away a house someone hasn't used in 45 days then taking away a house being used...

"Private housing that has not been accessed by the owner within forty-five days."
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...3e7ccabefa9954

Yeah I dont think a person with multiple houses in one server is going to need them all... unlike people without houses. It's just to play fair. Plus like people have said if you can just share your estate with your other accounts (god knows why people make so many in sam server) then that should take away that problem. Just a way to make the game fun and fair for everyone, old and new players.