Lost my House

[Reinha]

I’m wondering why would you put such a rule if I’m paying for my subscription? I paid upfront and an active subscriber, whether I log or not, why would you demolish people’s houses?

The people without houses are paying a subscription too. The measures taken greatly alleviate the housing shortage and discourage greedy behavior like buying houses just to make a profit.

I'm sorry you lost your house. It's not the end though because it seems like there are plenty of houses available when the game gets quiet between patches. My server had 20+ houses in the Goblet around December and January, just sitting there unused, unwatched and devaluing. 20+ without even counting the newest wards. I'm now a house owner for the third time because of it. Be patient and you'll find another one.

I understand the timer is needed while I also wish they would give us an option once a year or so do stop the timer for like 4 weeks in total.

You can take a break if you want. The timer is 45 days but 4 weeks is only 28 days. Just go to your house near the end of your sub and again as soon as you resub.

[YatoShishi]

You can take a break if you want. The timer is 45 days but 4 weeks is only 28 days. Just go to your house near the end of your sub and again as soon as you resub.

I would like to take a break more then 45 days, also maybe without the need to sub again. Thats why an option to maybe once a year or so to stop the timer would be nice. I know we wont get it, but luckily for me, I have enough money, other on the other hand are not that lucky.

[MrPresident]

I lost my house too and just like you I didn’t get a warning email. But at the end of the day I knew the rule when I bought it, as did you, so it’s no ones fault but our own. 45 days is a pretty fair time.

[DragonHunterG]

I've lost 2 houses. And one of them was a large plot. I think it really sucks. Losing the house sucks, but losing all the items inside is worse. I mean, at least hold the items that were in the house indefinitely. Some items which you can't get again unless I pay for it on the Mogstation, which is all kinds of whack. I participated in all those past events.

[Eldevern]

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Cherry trees... I've experienced that. I thought event items would come back the next event but no, items that can be lost or stolen are in mogstation. I can understand for glamour but event items we can lose, really? Hell no. It is not a money matters, it is the principle I can't accept.

[Renato]

The messed up part is that SE encourages people to take breaks. Unsub and play something else until something of your liking comes around that entices you to come back. I got extremely bored around the beginning of 5.1, unsubbed and lost my house (and EVERYTHING inside) because I hadn't logged in in about 3-4 months.

And That was on me...I could have logged in every time before my sub ended but It really comes down to what's important to you in the game and I wasn't about to resub just to keep my house and not have anything to do of interest so I just called it a loss and kept it moving.

But yeah it does suck for the people that really can't log in due to "life stuff" especially after getting a house is so difficult. I get why SE has the system in place (due to the shortage) but ALL of this could be avoided if they just made instanced housing or more wards. Or just implement restrictions so one person can't go in and purchase entire wards. 1 FC home and 1 personal home that are tied to the account itself so people can't just make an alt and buy more.

[tdb]

I have 2 larges in the same ward

And this right here is why all the limitations for player housing exist. Some people don't have a house at all and you want to keep your two houses without any effort?

[Renato]

And this right here is why all the limitations for player housing exist. Some people don't have a house at all and you want to keep your two houses without any effort?

That's exactly what I mean about tieing 1 house to an account along with 1 FC house. There was a post some years back with someone posting that they had 2 mansions, 3 houese, 8 cottages and 3 FCs. Or the one time two people on Mataeus purchased like 28 houses or something like that.

[Wissp]

45 days is a LONG time not to log in. If you can't find time to do it, well, then it obvious it is not THAT important to you.

Seriously, with the advent of laptops and easy internet access around most places in the world, surely one can make the time to logon and update their house if they really care about it. And if you play on ps4, well, I guess one would have to 'double dip' to be able to play the game on their laptop (if they have one) to keep the house. After all, it's ONLY money, it's your HOUSE that you put soooo much time in!

I honestly wonder what people are doing to keep them from total game access though for such a long time. Like I said, if one is willing to spend the money, one can keep their house. How much it is TRULY worth to you?

[Eldevern]

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You know, you can play 6month and clear all the content of each extension. And you are probably really young to ignore how fast the time flies.

But that's not even the problem. The problem is to lose housing thought even buy-to-play as BDO or Wildstar are/were able to provide a full housing for everyone without timer. It becomes even worst when you see events items end in mogstation even thought you can lose items or they can be stolen (if you use it for FC). Especially BDO you can buy three of any of the biggest houses (the only current restriction is you need to overfill houses to invest in the town but if you are only interested in housing and interiors design, you are free to do whatever it pleases you).

All these for wards that are ghost towns (if would be less a problem if at least wards were lively).

The problem is the principle itself. Before the housing release people were expecting instancied house for everyone (one most recurring was floating islands in Nym Area, for example).