I've Lost Everything

[NephthysVasudan]

90 day comment(

Hell no.... I thought it was 30..now i find out its 45.

All this leads too is morons who buy one..then log off or de sub...resub....and just show up to grip it again.
Too long causes a death grip situation.

I'm sympathetic for those who get hit in the face with life to ruin your housing situaiton...but lets not aggravate with abuse - now if the housing resources weren't limited..that's different.

[Ashiee]

OP, I'm really sorry that happened to you, that really sucks.

They really should extend the time period for recovering items and gil. In my opinion 35 days is not nearly long enough, at least have the period be 6 months, that's a patch and a half worth or time. Though honestly, the recovery period should be closer to 2 years for SE's sake, and the reason I say 2 years is because of those people who come back and play at expansion releases. If anyone of those people came back to a house being demoed with no chance of getting their gil back, there really is less incentive for them to come back to the game.

[XiXiQ]

Honestly I think that's a little too harsh to direct at SE.
30 Days is more than generous....especially for a very limited resource

for the house/land, sure. But it should keep your furniture/gil for your return. That's not inconveniencing anyone or taking up housing resources. It allows them to have something to start to rebuild upon their return (in fact, it would encourage more people to return, particularly those who just had some unfortunate circumstances keeping them away)

[Cylla]

Honestly I think that's a little too harsh to direct at SE.

SE deserves the back lashing it get.
As a paying player base, those of us who do have a house are being punished for their mistakes in not doing housing right.
As such, we're also being punished when real life happens and we can't pay our sub for whatever reason.
Losing the house, fine, whatever. We seem to be forever stuck with that punishment because of their failure.
But to lose our hard earned housing items and gil because of real life, that even more of a slap in the face.
There should be no limit on how long a person items and gil are held for.

Can safely say if I was in the OP position, I'd not even bother to re-sub knowing that not only did I lose the house but everything I put into it and the gil.

Let put it this way:
Right now, we're dumping hard earned real money into a game that take content away from us if we stop (have to stop) playing.
As Besame said, there lots of outstanding games out right now that doesn't do this to it player base. Games that don't punish their player base because real life happens.

[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.

[Darrcyphfeid]

Hell no.... I thought it was 30..now i find out its 45.

All this leads too is morons who buy one..then log off or de sub...resub....and just show up to grip it again.
Too long causes a death grip situation.

Would you like to take a guess at how many months auto-demolition has been shut off for since its initial activation in November 2015? (26 months total)

Japan's earthquake: 04/21/16 - 09/26/16 (Link )
US's hurricanes: 09/15/17 - 01/30/18 (Link)

9 / 26 = 34.61% of the total time

[Dragonrage53]

Sunfire this is a side effect of any persistent housing system. Only so many homes/wards means at some point the deadwood will have to be cleared. You have your health and are recovering financially by the sounds of it and that's way more important than a fake pixelated house. As far as the lost gil and decor well it sucks but nothing to do now move on or live and learn. Embrace your life and hopefully good marriage way more important than any game.

[SunfireKNT86]

Sunfire this is a side effect of any persistent housing system. Only so many homes/wards means at some point the deadwood will have to be cleared. You have your health and are recovering financially by the sounds of it and that's way more important than a fake pixelated house. As far as the lost gil and decor well it sucks but nothing to do now move on or live and learn. Embrace your life and hopefully good marriage way more important than any game.

This is incredibly condescending.

[Dragonrage53]

Condescending or not that's life it applies in game to some degree, and 100% outside of it. Deal with it or not your choice but, you've still got your health and your not homeless obviously whats more important pixels on a server that dosen't pay the bills or a real roof over your head with a loving wife? Think about that.

[Acilith]

Obviously his life is more important but he pays to play this game, per month, like everyone else. I don't think he's asking for too much here, he just wants his stuff back from what I understand, not the plot. I can't believe the amount of people who are frothing at the mouth over the BIG BAD HOUSING ISSUES TOO BAD SO SAD YOU WENT AWAY FROM THE GAME TOO LONG when someone was legit suffering IRL. How disconnected do you have to be to not care that someone lost the time, effort and care they put into this game?

Obviously you care about this game since you're playing it. Why is it difficult to understand that someone else cares too? Think about that.