Pushed to quit after 1,860 days subbed

[Sigma-Astra]

My knowledge of housing came from having private chambers / apartments / the FC house. I knew how the furnishings worked, stuff like that. I figured I knew how it worked - I didn't think there was any need to go looking for hidden catches. I thought I'd just enjoy the experience of figuring it out as I went along, and that's what I find lacking about the poor level of in game communication about this.

I like figuring stuff out in the game on my own. I don't trawl through the Lodestone, I follow the FFXIV Twitter for news updates and stuff, but I enjoy the experience of asking FC friends things, or exploring. Reading every new Lodestone article in case something might be relevant to an in-game activity I do in the future isn't really how I play. It doesn't feel like that should be a requirement for not losing your stuff.

I do understand some of these responses - for a lot of you who are here on the forum, it probably means you are that sort of player who reads up on fan sites, forums, wikis etc. I have been that player in the past, in MMOs over the years. But not everyone is, and for the most part Square Enix do cater to both kinds of player. Think of all the help text that is in the game - how frustrating would it be if other systems weren't explained as you used them? I was invested in playing the game, and that shouldn't come with a requirement of reading every set of patch notes and every article on the Lodestone.

....Uh, there's no way that the game could theoretically tell you through in-game notifications about every little patch or update because it would literally boggle down the entire system. Some patch notes are incredibly long to shift through online, so imagine trying to sit there and shift through 11 mini pages of in-game notes before you're able to play. I'm sorry, but if you're too lazy to check the Lodestone and read through the notes, that sounds like a personal problem and not a game breaking problem.

WoW posts their patch and in-game content fixes I'm sure to their own forums and whatever is their Lodestone equivalent as well.

You are blaming the entire housing system on a problem you could have prevented yourself. Either read, or don't...that's your own decision. But, do not blame the game or others because it's "not really how you play".

Take responsibility for your own lack of insight on the matter instead of pointing fingers that no one was there to hold your hand or tell you anything.

[Penthea]

....Uh, there's no way that the game could theoretically tell you through in-game notifications about every little patch or update because it would literally boggle down the entire system. Some patch notes are incredibly long to shift through online, so imagine trying to sit there and shift through 11 mini pages of in-game notes before you're able to play. I'm sorry, but if you're too lazy to check the Lodestone and read through the notes, that sounds like a personal problem and not a game breaking problem.

But this isn't what they're saying SE should do. They're saying SE should be clearer about the presence of the demolition feature and the personal state of it for a person's house. They're not asking for patch-notes in their moogle mail or pop-ups.

[Sigma-Astra]

But this isn't what they're saying SE should do. They're saying SE should be clearer about the presence of the demolition feature and the personal state of it for a person's house. They're not asking for patch-notes in their moogle mail or pop-ups.

And yet how often do we hear of people getting their houses demolished because they neglected to read or learn of the tools available towards them? You don't reward willful ignorance of a situation.

It doesn't take much effort to educate oneself about the housing system and if people didn't necessarily buy houses and leave them to sit there for months or years and not even put a garden in them...we probably wouldn't even have a need for an auto demolition feature to begin with, now that I think about it.

It was put into place because people buy property and then never do anything with it or they unsub from the game, don't relinquish the house first, and then it's stuck on a service account no one is using.

[Penthea]

And yet how often do we hear of people getting their houses demolished because they neglected to read or learn of the tools available towards them? You don't reward willful ignorance of a situation.

It doesn't take much effort to educate oneself about the housing system

No it doesn't but people should not have to read third party sources to find out that their house can be removed. Having something you own being taken away from you is a really big deal, and SE should make it exceptionally clear when someone buys a house. Not when they're a lvl 15 sprout who barely know how the game works and have not even 10k gil to their name.

Information about demolition is simply not relevant to a sprout. They won't be able to purchase a house for at least a few weeks, if not a few months or even over a year. You can't expect people to remember every tiny sliver of information they read. People are human. They forget things. It wouldn't kill SE to put in an additional pop-up about how demolition works directly after someone purchases a house. You know...when the information is actually relevant to them.

I have encountered plenty of people like OP, avid players of the game who eventually got a house and had no idea demolition was even a thing. They completely forgot the game even mentioned it at all. The timing of when information about the demolition timer is presented is extremely poorly timed.

[Sigma-Astra]

No it doesn't but people should not have to read third party sources to find out that their house can be removed. Having something you own being taken away from you is a really big deal, and SE should make it exceptionally clear when someone buys a house. Not when they're a lvl 15 sprout who barely know how the game works and have not even 10k gil to their name.

Information about demolition is simply not relevant to a sprout. They won't be able to purchase a house for at least a few weeks, if not a few months or even over a year. You can't expect people to remember every tiny sliver of information they read. People are human. They forget things. It wouldn't kill SE to put in an additional pop-up about how demolition works directly after someone purchases a house. You know...when the information is actually relevant to them.

I have encountered plenty of people like OP, avid players of the game who eventually got a house and had no idea demolition was even a thing. They completely forgot the game even mentioned it at all. The timing of when information about the demolition timer is presented is extremely poorly timed.

Again, it shouldn't used as an excuse whether you had forgotten all about it or you refused to read. A mortgage company isn't going to care if you felt it was unneeded to read the fine print on your home and then you decided to "forget" paying for the bill for an entire year.

There's no reason why you can't own up or take responsibility for your actions if you're also part of the problem inside an MMO either. They could put more warnings in, but people would still say it's not enough, and we'd still end up with these topics regardless. Players need to be held accountable for their actions just as much as well.

We have people who don't even read their tooltips half of the time.

[Penthea]

Again, it shouldn't used as an excuse whether you had forgotten all about it or you refused to read. A mortgage company isn't going to care if you felt it was unneeded to read the fine print on your home and then you decided to "forget" paying for the bill for an entire year.

Oh come on...this is A GAME. Are you really going to compare buying pixels to the complex undertaking of getting a mortgage approved? A lot of people who play this game are too young to legally apply for a mortgage. Get off your high horse.

There's no reason why you can't own up or take responsibility for your actions if you're also part of the problem inside an MMO either. They could put more warnings in, but people would still say it's not enough, and we'd still end up with these topics regardless. Players need to be held accountable for their actions just as much as well.

That is an extremely poor reason to not make the demolition mechanic clearer. Just because there will always be careless fools does not justify having woefully poorly timed information.

[Sigma-Astra]

Oh come on...this is A GAME. Are you really going to compare buying pixels to the complex undertaking of getting a mortgage approved? A lot of people who play this game are too young to legally apply for a mortgage. Get off your high horse.

...Why on earth would you think that just because it's a game, a person is excluded from taking personal responsibility for their actions or lack of knowledge? It's a high horse to expect people to have accountability? Good lord. What on earth should we be teaching the younger people? That it's okay to make mistakes and blame others for it instead of owning up towards the fact that you made a clear mistake or oversight? That you made a poor judgement and assumption of something, but it's okay to pass the blame solely towards the other party instead of taking partial blame as well?

We shouldn't teach the younger generation it's okay to not read everything clearly and then just blame someone else for your lack of reading later on.

That is an extremely poor reason to not make the demolition mechanic clearer. Just because there will always be careless fools does not justify having woefully poorly timed information.

...No, you just made it an actually very good reason why it doesn't matter how many times we have warning pop-up messages. There will always be careless fools.