Quote Originally Posted by Penthea View Post
...have you even read my first post? I did not say there should be extra or more notifications in game. I said the timer that is constantly in the game should be constantly visible. Do you even know how the timer works? You don't get notified when it becomes visible. It just happens. With my suggestion the timer would simply be visible at all times. No extra notifications in-game. You simply would be able to see it at any time if you took it upon yourself to look at the estate tab of the timers window.
Yes, I know how it works. I have a friend with a house who takes breaks a couple of times a year and as a tenant I keep an eye out for the timer popping up in case his break is lasting longer than he anticipated.

No, the last thing I want is another UI element cluttering up my screen. I don't need a constant timer on display because it's irrelevant to me. I actually use my house so I'm in no danger of having it demo'd unless I stop playing, in which case a timer on display in game is useless to me.

It's no more difficult to open up the Timers menu once a day, hit the Estate button and check to see if a house is getting close to demo than it is to actually go to the house and walk in it to reset the timer.

Use the house. Problem solved. No need for something else cluttering up your screen.

Quote Originally Posted by Kittypryde View Post
I honestly don't think it would be too much to have an active housing timer in the menu. We do have it for everything from Grand company turn ins, airship/retainers timers, even fashion report. I don't think it would be that hard for SE to add another timer in the menu. However, now we would have to hope that players would actually remember to hotbar the timers shortcut and check their houses. I don't see this option as SE holding our hands. If the owners STILL manage to loose their house/houses with a timer like this, then they really didn't care about their homes in the first place.
The timer is already there.

You know how I mentioned my friend above? He's been focused on WoW since the expansion release. While his subscription is still active, he hasn't logged into FFXIV to play since Battle for Azeroth was released. Guess what showed up in my Estate timers yestrday (image taken just before I'm posting this)?



We're absolutely getting into hand-holding territory when someone can't take 10 second to flip through a submenu on their own to look up information about something they presumably care about and they expect someone else to bring that information to their attention instead.

And it would be totally unnecessary if they were simply using their house in the first place as SE intends. If SE didn't care whether or not players were using their houses, there would be no auto-demo timer based on house entry. It would have been tied to active subscription.

Let's stop enabling the hoarders who are wasting limited resources that others would be using if they had the access. Let's start encouraging personal accountability instead.