Quote Originally Posted by R-Pete-G View Post
And that's the issue there, for me. We don't all know. I'm surprised that people find it so hard to believe that I wasn't aware of this system, when we seem to be agreeing that you're not made aware of it in-game unless you happen to find the timer after it's already started. And if you missed a blog post on the Lodestone, or the patch notes from a specific patch, you're buggered.

That, in theory, is what the emails for. But as Enkrateia has already noted, Squenix can't even guarantee those are delivered 100% of the time. The idea that this can be somehow an adequate level of player communication is absurd, to me.
Noted, you didn't know. But again, and I'm not personally attacking you and I do have sympathy for the situation you're in, the question remains: if you needed to be told you were going to lose everything to make you use your house - why have it in the first place? Why hold onto it when you know other people desperately want them?
I only ask as you said previously that you had been logging on during this period.
Obviously you're under no obligation to be altruistic about housing in an MMO - but it is well known that they are seriously limited and people really want them.

Also - every time you place a piece of furniture it gives you a warning doesn't it? Along the lines of 'once you place this you can't get it back'... perhaps that needs working on as it isn't particularly clear - seeing as I can't even remember what it says.

But ultimately the responsibility for knowing/not knowing rests on you.
The argument for whether SE should be holding people hostage over their subs with houses, whether there should be a timer in the first place or whether there should be any instanced housing at all is - personally I find all of that more egregious than the timers.