After support ignored all my requests it baffled me. I gave this money to a company that took a content away. I have never been banned or suspended, always been on point. But I lose my home in this way. When there are others who don't even play anymore for months on end (I was neighbor to one when I had a FC company house) and would login once a month just to keep their home and logged out not seen again. Heck it was creepy cause the house look haunted and the neighbor was really strange.

Anways, after hrs of no response, I conceded that SE didn't care. I took my losses and transferred back to Aether.

Next housing bid roles around, found a nice small property. I place a bid, nobody places a bid for over 3 days straight, things are looking good! Then that evening on the fourth day, one person puts a bid on the lot. No one bids at the other available small. Then yesterday, one more person bids on the lot. No on bids on the other house (I kept checking) until that evening. Today I lost to the 3RD person who bidded. Infuriating! Why? Here is why:

1. Why can't simply being active ensures your housing is safe? Whats the difference between logging in and stepping in your home to prove you are active? I see none! Why do I have to devote my time to Live Letters, a high word regurgitation of a email when I get a bazillion emails daily just to find one small crucial detail about keeping my home, or non-stop keeping up with updates. For some people thats fine with them. But this is not the only damn game I play and keep up with. I have streamers and content creators who summarize these things. So why couldn't me being active in the game be enough to keep my house safe??? I also had reports from some friends they was getting the email and lost their home even though they were stepping in their homes!

2. Why is the bidding window to activate takes 3-5 days and the bidding window takes 6????? You punish people and ignore them when your system fails and you make strange requirements to keep your home active giving a sense you must pay attention but SE excuse for the housing bid time for 6 days is "so people who cannot login has a chance to bid for a home". That makes zero sense!!! Pick a lane SE, either housing is for active players or its a commodity to be on casual mode. You have people holding housing hostage when they haven't truly played the game in years bypassing loopholes even before the housing system change. You take homes from active players and then give it to people who simply could not be bothered to login for 5 minutes or less to place a bid and logout? This is a contradiction!!