Pushed to quit after 1,860 days subbed

[Penthea]

I respectfully disagree with your point of view on the notifications of demolitions. I think the system is fine as it is when it works in game and out of game to ensure users are notified that their housing will be demolished. I have a friend who has several houses on our server (pre the changes that limited housing) and he's not failed to go in to all of his houses even on all of his alts. If anyone is reading this make sure you understand the system and go read the special housing website. Make sure your email is current to your account. Don't ignore square enix emails. Check your timers. Check your notifications.

I think the worrying thing is that the game did not inform him that a demolition timer even existed. Well I am not sure if this is the case, I skipped through the pop-up tutorial when I bought my house because I didn't need to read it given I read everything I could about housing on wikis before getting my own. If it does come up in the pop-up tutorial message...well it's OP's fault for not reading it. If it doesn't, then SE are at fault for not making the existence of the timer clear.

That being said it's possible if there is a pop-up message informing of demolition, that may not mean it was always there. Maybe it wasn't when OP got his house. Hard to say without knowing exactly when OP got his house.

[MomomiMomi]

I think the worrying thing is that the game did not inform him that a demolition timer even existed. Well I am not sure if this is the case, I skipped through the pop-up tutorial when I bought my house because I didn't need to read it given I read everything I could about housing on wikis before getting my own. If it does come up in the pop-up tutorial message...well it's OP's fault for not reading it. If it doesn't, then SE are at fault for not making the existence of the timer clear.

That being said it's possible if there is a pop-up message informing of demolition, that may not mean it was always there. Maybe it wasn't when OP got his house. Hard to say without knowing exactly when OP got his house.

There is a pop-up when you enter residential areas whenever they've added new features to housing, including the demolition timer. OP probably just didn't read it. Doesn't change the fact that it sucks they lost everything, and the housing system does need a lot of work, but I find it hard to believe that OP didn't know about the demolition timer through no fault of their own.

[Penthea]

There is a pop-up when you enter residential areas whenever they've added new features to housing, including the demolition timer. OP probably just didn't read it.

The problem with that is it's possible OP didn't read it at the time because it didn't concern him. He may have not gotten his house until long after he first entered a residential area after demolition was introduced. Not saying it excuses him from reading it, but I can see how a player would dismiss such a pop-up if they had no house at the time nor would think they would even have one soon. I imagine new players could get caught by this if they read the information when they were a low lvl sprout and weren't sure what it meant, or even forgot about it by the time they could buy a house.

I suppose a way to improve it is have a pop-up window stating what demolition is directly after purchasing a plot, instead of only the first time you enter a residential district.