I've Lost Everything

[Squintina]

It's absolutely not the same. You are comparing apples and oranges. Gear, minions, etc. are all unlimited resources in this game and farming up a full set of the latest gear and then not logging in for more than a month doesn't affect anyone but you. Sitting on a house and not using it because you don't even log in for more than a month is locking another person, or even entire FC, completely out of housing just to hold your place for whenever you might come back.

The only reason housing is a limited resource is because SE was stubborn about having that community feel and created a crappy ward system that allowed such limitation to occur. If they had put in instanced housing (at least for personal houses), none of this would have been an issue.

If SE had done the same for mounts, made it so only a limited players could get them and they'd lose them over time in order for other people to get them, wouldn't you also want to stand up for that and say that it's just plain stupid that a person who needs to go away for a bit (because of medical/financial reasons or whatever) is suddenly punished for it? It's absolutely horrible that people excuse that and that SE thinks it's fair.

Besides, even if the demo timer is 30 or 45 days, why does the recovery timer (for getting gil/items) from the demo need to be so short? They could still keep their short demo timer and have a long recovery timer. There is no one being locked out of anything from having a longer recovery timer.

[Rymm]

The only reason housing is a limited resource is because SE was stubborn about having that community feel and created a crappy ward system that allowed such limitation to occur. If they had put in instanced housing (at least for personal houses), none of this would have been an issue.

I agree that the ward system as it exists now is untenable and that instanced housing would have been vastly preferable if they can't make enough wards for everyone to have housing. But we don't have instanced housing and there aren't enough wards for everyone so, here we are. This is why, as I said before, I support the auto-demo until SE fixes housing so it's not so utterly broken. If housing were like mounts and everyone got one, then the demo timer wouldn't be necessary and we wouldn't be having this conversation.

I will agree though that the expiration timer on recovering your items and gil is absolutely unnecessary. I've never heard a satisfactory explanation for not holding stuff for people for a longer time period, if not indefinitely.