Pushed to quit after 1,860 days subbed

[Ariane]

I completely sympathise with you and i only hope things somehow turn around and work out for you :"(. It really sucks when SE pulls a bait and switch and makes promises only to go back on them and screw their own loyal fans over. It's just another example to me of how they would rather care about the numbers or the newer players more than the loyal veterans who have been with them for years. I myself invest a lot of time, care, and gil into housing as well and i would be just as upset as you especially being someone who has a goot 1700 or so days subbed as well.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...810-30-2013%29

1:14:22
Q: Will there be any maintenance fees or other costs for housing, besides the cost of the land and house?
A: In older MMOs, such as Ultima Online, there was a house maintenance fee you had to pay weekly, but in FFXIV: ARR we decided against this system. Similarly, these older MMOs also had a system where your house would break down if you didn’t log in after a while in order to have you continue your subscription, but this is a thing of the past and we won't have any system like that.

What i wish i could ask Yoshida myself is......What happened? What happened to all of these promises that have taken a 180 degree turn and turned into lies? There are many other things that went similar to this with proof if you research enough as well. I want to ask you SE and Yoshida? Why did you lie to us? And why has it become a pattern to do this and think if you just keep apologizing later that it resets things or makes it all okay again? Because it doesn't. Your loyal fans are not happy, and with good reason.

Housing was originally only for FCs. Personally housing was originally to be stated to be a its own thing and not shared with the FC houses. I'm not sure why they changed their minds on personal housing, but maybe they saw they made too many plots for the FCs to buy. (There was a lot of empty plots when only FC could buy them.) So maybe they thought they could have individuals buy up the empty plots (and they don't have to making something new just for the personal housing). But then the problem there is not enough plots when individuals get in on it, so they end up with a huge shortage. That's when they had to put in the demolition timer.

[Penthea]

Housing was originally only for FCs. Personally housing was originally to be stated to be a its own thing and not shared with the FC houses. I'm not sure why they changed their minds on personal housing, but maybe they saw they made too many plots for the FCs to buy. (There was a lot of empty plots when only FC could buy them.) So maybe they thought they could have individuals buy up the empty plots (and they don't have to making something new just for the personal housing). But then the problem there is not enough plots when individuals get in on it, so they end up with a huge shortage of houses. That's when they had to put in the demolition timer.

I think what actually happened was back when housing was first introduced getting the sum of money needed to purchase a house was much more difficult than it is now. If you lvl from 1 to 70 and don't spend your gil on much outside of necessities, you probably will have enough gil to buy a cottage by the time you're lvl 70. In 2.0 getting to lvl 50 certainly did not result in you having 1 million gil, never mind several million.

So SE saw a lot of empty plots and decided to open houses for personal use as well so that the feature would actually get used. But things change as time goes on, and one of those is the amount of gil a player can accumulate from playing through the available msq, as well as other new features such as Aqua Polis, Lost Canals, Palace of The Dead, and so on.

So presently a far higher percentage of players have the gil to purchase a house compared to 2.0. The poor design of the housing system became clearer as time passed when a large amount of players had the means to interact with it, but were blocked due to limited space.