The Housing Black Pill. Truth Hurts. /Housing Salt General/

[Jojoya]

In actuality, no.

See, if they added many, many more wards to the point that there was enough housing for everyone to get one, people would actually be much more comfortable unsubbing (especially if they only have a small) if it'd be easy for them to obtain a house once again when they came back due to massive supply. Why worry about having to constantly log back in to hang on to that small when you could come back in a year and still easily get a small to replace it?

The shortage of the current wards is extremely powerful at keeping sub retention, since if you lose the house, your only options are 1 in 100+ odds of winning a lottery, or ditching all your friends, FC, etc to go get a guaranteed one on OCE. Thus anyone in the current housing climate will cling to a house like their life depends on it, since if they lose it, its immensely unlikely they're getting any back for potential years.

Except they would end up losing their furnishings and all of the gil used to purchase the plot and erect the Estate Hall if demolition remained part of the system.

Considering how many players complain about trying to earn gil, they absolutely would remain subscribed to prevent that from happening. Furnishings usually cost more than the plot and Estate Hall did. Seasonal event items and Mogstation purchases lost could only be reacquired by buying them again from Mogstation. It's a relatively small number of players that would feel no loss if their house was demolished and they lost everything.