Automatic Home Demolition is Resuming!!

[dspguy]

Because at this point in the game's life cycle, houses are a limited commodity. The other items aren't. A mount dropping for one player doesn't prevent another player from getting that mount. Someone getting an achievement that grants a title doesn't remove that achievement from the game so no others can get it.

You're right that housing shouldn't be different - yet it is. Hence the need for demolition.

Until such time as SE changes the system so supply of houses is not a problem, players need to weigh their desire for a house against their desire to take extended breaks from the game on occasion. They still have access to housing in the form of apartments if they want those long breaks that badly. They can still be tenants in the houses of their friends who don't take long breaks and so aren't at risk of demolition.

I would disagree on some accounts. If a mount drops and you win it, I do not win it. The same way if I own a house, you do not own that house. We might eventually both own a house (and mount) though.

Also, it isn't really clear if there is a housing shortage. Are there any plots left on these new DC? If so, then there is not a housing shortage. Switch servers, buy that plot. DC travel to a more populated server. Problem solved. It is a solution. Not one many people will like. But there are lots of players that left servers with no housing available to buy a house in the new DCs.