Getting a New House Feels Impossible

[PennyStormfire]

The invisible timer is ridiculous. I have seen every explanation there is for this atrocity, I have heard from dozens of apologists about "why" it is in place. It wastes hundreds of hours of player time and unfairly favors relocation over new buyers who have already wasted hours and hours in the click wars.

Modifying that timer to be much shorter (8 hours MAX), to have a lockout for relocation after say 4 hours, would require very little effort or resources on the part of SE. This would alleviate some of the toxicity and bad feelings within the community surrounding this issue. This is a resource that people are willing to forgo sleep, and daily functions to camp on. We need some relief for all of these people. It is clearly and demonstrably a breading ground for toxicity.

Housing has become very important to active players and in my view all of the solutions that have come out of SE have been in favor of inactive players. While I have great sympathy for the people who cannot be here due to IRL issues, and I understand maintaining good will with folks who may want to return, stopping the demo timer when subs are up by every measurable standard (https://www.hd.square-enix.com/eng/i...0q4_200511.pdf) seems punitive to active players. If SE wants to make a empathetic gesture to those folks refund their purchase price if demo happens or give them a housing voucher item that allows them to relocate when they return.

There are hundreds of better ways to do all this.