Pushed to quit after 1,860 days subbed

[Xiomara]

When you stop subscribing to the game, your retainers retain (pun intended) all of your items until you come back. They're stored for you until you're ready to return and become active in the game once more. The window on reclaiming your furnishings in this instance seems either very arbitrary, or it's Square Enix clawing back some of the inventory space stored against characters that they've admitted they struggle with. And for someone who was still paying their subscription, that feels like a really bad practice.

It's odd that SE went to the trouble of adding a housing storeroom so that we can move our houses, but then don't tie in the housing demolition system to it. A simple solution in your case would be that when a house is demolished, all items are moved to the storeroom, just like you were moving the house and then change the reclamation NPC so that it's an interface to said storeroom.

[R-Pete-G]

It's odd that SE went to the trouble of adding a housing storeroom so that we can move our houses, but then don't tie in the housing demolition system to it. A simple solution in your case would be that when a house is demolished, all items are moved to the storeroom, just like you were moving the house and then change the reclamation NPC so that it's an interface to said storeroom.

Indeed. It's such a practical idea, in fact, that I can't believe this isn't somehow intentional as a way to save on character data.