Quote Originally Posted by ZattanaWen View Post
I don't hate these ideas (though I'm not sure you'll ever sell the "recurring fees" idea to the fanbase, and you'd have to define what constitutes an "unused house").

But a limited time amnesty, especially during this pause on auto-demo, would have been a brilliant idea if they had instituted when it became clear they weren't reactivating it any time soon. I don't even need 100%. I think I got 11-13M last time I let the game reclaim a medium, and I was fine with that, and I was planning on doing that again before they shut off the timer.

Now I'm effectively stuck with a house I don't really want, on a server I've been wanting to transfer from, for who knows how long before they restart the timer, because rampant bots have devastated the economy so badly that now I really would like to have that 11-13M gil back.
They could always add a 50-80% refund for any transfer while keeping the 100% return for the players moving from Congested to Preferred worlds.

And yes, the idea of a recurring fee meets heavy resistance every time it's mentioned. As for unused, that would be up to the current owner on whether or not they're using their house. A lot of players buy just because they have the gil and found an available house, not because they actually use it in any way. Set a recurring fee (does not have to be a huge amount, say 50k a month for a small) and people start thinking twice on whether it's worth buying the house if they'll have to keep paying for it over time.