Why can't we all have a House?

[Alleluia]

LOTRO, New World are just a few mmos to name that have unlimited housing. Why does this game punish 99% of players with no housing spaces and further punish you if you get a house if you don't sub or a month by losing it...

It's 2021, the game is doing very well and I'm sure with their cash shop which was originally made to apparently add more housing areas money is not an issue... So why do they disrespect their players soo much? I've played since 1.0 and only every once been able to find and buy a house and then I couldn't sub for a few months and lost it.

Lotro just adds new housing districts when one is full, ffxiv is using the exact same housing system as lotro, so why can it not expand?

I can't speak to New World, but Lotro can add more neighborhoods now b/c it has had so much shrinkage of playerbase over the years. They used ot have more neighborhoods, then they had less cus less players, and thus they now have room to add more as needed, cus there aren't at peak capacity atm. I remember, back when it was at its peak player numbers (I played since launch in 2008), that housing was an issue exactly like it is now in FF14. They hit neighborhood capacity and you had to wait till someone went into escrow due to not logging in to pay their property fees before their plot went on the market again. And, oh yeah, there were/are property fees. And no apartments. At least there weren't as of 2014 or so, which is the last time I really played.

[MistakeNot]

I can't speak to New World, but Lotro can add more neighborhoods now b/c it has had so much shrinkage of playerbase over the years. They used ot have more neighborhoods, then they had less cus less players, and thus they now have room to add more as needed, cus there aren't at peak capacity atm. I remember, back when it was at its peak player numbers (I played since launch in 2008), that housing was an issue exactly like it is now in FF14. They hit neighborhood capacity and you had to wait till someone went into escrow due to not logging in to pay their property fees before their plot went on the market again. And, oh yeah, there were/are property fees. And no apartments. At least there weren't as of 2014 or so, which is the last time I really played.

Back in the day, housing in LOTRO did NOT go back on the market when people failed to pay the fees. The houses just stayed locked with an ever-increasing amount of back-fees that needed to be payed to open them up again.

Eventually (in 2013) that changed and houses did go back on the market after the fees had been unpaid for long enough, at which point a lot of houses belonging to people who had stopped playing became available again.

[Alleluia]

Back in the day, housing in LOTRO did NOT go back on the market when people failed to pay the fees. The houses just stayed locked with an ever-increasing amount of back-fees that needed to be payed to open them up again.

Eventually (in 2013) that changed and houses did go back on the market after the fees had been unpaid for long enough, at which point a lot of houses belonging to people who had stopped playing became available again.

Ah, right. I'd forgotten that. lol Thanks.

[AdamChattaway]

Back in the day, housing in LOTRO did NOT go back on the market when people failed to pay the fees. The houses just stayed locked with an ever-increasing amount of back-fees that needed to be payed to open them up again.

Eventually (in 2013) that changed and houses did go back on the market after the fees had been unpaid for long enough, at which point a lot of houses belonging to people who had stopped playing became available again.

Also LOTRO is F2P so you can log in without a sub and pay the housing weekly fee and up to i think 13 weeks in advance and even other people can pay your house rent for you if your offline. this is not tied to having a sub and losing the house it it runs out.