Yoshi-P lied

[Jojoya]

Or! How about this? SE fix the god damn housing system so there wouldn't be a supply issue in the first place? Unbelievable blaming players for their absolute incompetence on the matter... There wouldn't be a house auto demolish system in the first place if there was adequate supply. People feel they need to keep their sub up because it is such a pain to get a house, you have the cause and effect all backwards. Stop white knighting for the company's bad design and decisions!

If you've ever visited the Housing subforum, you would know that I have been pushing for SE to switch to an instanced housing system on the level of ESO, WildStar and RIFT housing for years. The ward system is a failure. It can't keep up with an ever increasing player base. It doesn't not create the feeling of a neighborhood for most of the players who have managed to acquire a house and yet are highly unlikely to encounter other players in their ward due to the small number of owners per ward.

SE remains stuck on the ward system, though. They've made no indication they'll consider giving us anything else.

I try to be a realist. If the ward system is what we as players will be given to work with then we need accept that until SE decides to change something. That means players will always be upset with the system. Even if we got to the point every player could get a house, the goalpost would get picked up by the player base and moved to "every player should be able to get a large" and that simply will never happen unless SE were to dismantle the current wards entirely and release new ones. At which point, they might as well give us the instanced housing that would have avoided this mess in the first place.

So we have a system where not every player who wants a house can get one on the worlds where they've chosen to play. That means to keep houses in the hands of players who are active instead of having a bunch of houses sitting unused, we need to have demolition.

Everyone who has purchased a house since demolition then apartments were added back in Heavensward should be well aware of this. If you didn't want to have to remain subbed all the time, you shouldn't have purchased a house. You should have opted for an apartment and asked a friend who doesn't have a problem staying subbed to add you as a tenant to their house.

Instead what we get is a bunch of players who are unhappy with the game but for some reason want to keep paying a sub just to keep a house in the game they don't want to be playing. Their money, they can waste it if they want. But they need to keep in mind that by doing so they are not doing anything that might pressure SE into making the changes they would like to see in the game.

I'll rephrase what I said earlier: money may talk but giving up something that you like and keeping your money is going to speak a lot louder in the long run, especially if there are a large number of players who feel the same way you do and choose to do the same. Otherwise, you're just tossing money in SE's pocket. They have no reason to change anything if players are going to keep subbing to the game even when they're not playing.