Lost my House

[Sicno]

Then give up your house and take a break. It's really that easy

No, it's not. Maybe if you don't care about where it was located, the size, if you made a basic, easy to reproduce and otherwise unremarkable decorating, maybe THEN it would be easy to have it lost and get a new one later. Maybe that's why you pulled it successfully twice? But in general it seems to have become harder over time to secure a house because reasons. Especially in more populated servers, especially if there's someone botting the placard. And as Avidria pointed out later, where do you put ALL those items you had in it? The storage will only keep them for so long if it gets auto-demolished.

Houses are for fcs and players who play at least every 45 days and more people get to enjoy the feature this way. I don't know how someone who isn't even subscribed to the game can think they should be allowed to reserve a limited game resource and the content it provides. Apartments are better suited for temporary subscribers.

You keep saying that as if as soon as you come back there's gonna be a shiny house plot waiting for you, ready for the taking. If you fight so hard to take houses away from people because they're such a limited resource, reserved for the "deserving", why should I think it'll be easy for me to get a new one when I'm back?

And I feel like I'm shackled forever to the game. Like it doesn't matter how loyal I've been to the game, how hard I worked on my house, as soon as I need a break that's a bit longer the crows are all over my head demanding it, shouting at me "YOU'RE UNWORTHY, WE DESERVE IT MORE NOW!!!!" This current system instead of of being tailored to the reality of being a MMO it pits player against players.

I've taken long-ish breaks a few times, but I've put in the five minutes once per month to keep my house active. If you're in a situation where you're completely unable to log into the game for 45 days, then you probably have bigger problems than losing your virtual house.

If you aren't really playing, if you only tag in so you don't lose the house then log out, how is that in practice any different from just not playing during that period of time? How does that make someone more "deserving" of keeping it? And there may be situations where you may be out longer not because you're "at risk" of something important, maybe you had planned to come back at a certain date and then something completely different came up, maybe having your credit card blocked, maybe your bank made a chargeback because of those multi-purchases at the Mog Station and your account got banned because of it and support will take a while sorting that out, etc. Just a couple of silly examples.