Lost my Large house in Empyreum. Super, SUPER bummed...

[Bacent]

I've had emails like that happen with hotmail as well, sorry to hear about that. Really wish email filters weren't jank.

Though this is one of the things why I give myself extra reminders on my phone 'Remind me in X days to do Y activity' a lot... for literally everything. That and I'm *super* forgetful.

[Avoidy]

Pretty sure OP already knows he messed up. He messed up again by posting this here, because there's nothing anyone here can do except empathize or beat the dead horse. Guess which skillset the official forums specializes in.

The demolition system is trash but it's a necessary evil in the housing system we have now, which is also trash. The XIV team lets the game go comatose for months, says "play another game if ur unhappy," and then nukes your house while you're gone. Truly this is a caring system and not disingenuous at all. We'll never get a ward surplus because it might cost Square, like, 11 dollars to store all those virtual roofs. That's a whole ass panda express plate. Too much for the 2 billion dollar company. Perfectly understandable. I saved 11 dollars once and it felt amazing. On the bright side, OP, your golden shackles are broken. You can unsub until three days before 7.0 drops, do all 8 hours of content from 6.4 and 6.5, spend about a week doing the 7.0 msq when it drops, and then quit again for 4-9 months until the next patch you're interested in comes out. Maybe even wait until the free playtime events and don't pay at all. Take a page out of Square's playbook and just skimp on every cost you can. You're free!

[SassyAssassin]

I feel sorry for you OP thats awful, housing is really important to me too in mmos and the ffxiv housing system is probably the worst Ive ever seen.

[caffe_macchiato]

People forget one key fact. Square Enix isn’t like Blizzard. They don’t have the resources to keep a player’s house active 24/7. We all know the company is failing right now, and to be honest, that’s our fault. We could’ve bought another fantasia or mount, but we didn’t. And now the company is poor. Guess who has to pay for our insubordination? Us.

Our stinginess has consequences. Imagine if you were CEO of Square Enix and everyone unsubscribed to your game. How would that make you feel?

At this point, I think Square Enix needs to consider Kickstarter or Patreon for this game. They’re not doing very well and could use the support. Or at least allow us to tip with our subscriptions.

[TaleraRistain]

That really sucks

I've always been in the habit that I keep a little notepad for the last time I went into my house and update it when I go in next. I don't go in every day and often just sit in the yard. So this helps both when I'm busy playing with roulettes or just otherwise away from the house, or if a new game comes out and I'm not playing as much. Won't help you now, but maybe later on if you can start over it might be something to try.

The e-mails aren't always reliable. I've definitely gone to 30 days before but didn't get anything. I always check the Estate tab in game since that's a lot more reliable.

[Jojoya]

I suppose I can try to recover some of my housing items. Not really sure how, given HOW MANY items we had down. Even worse, I'd spent quite a lot of real money on Christmas-themed items on the Mog Station, which are obviously totally useless now.

You wouldn't want to save all the items, just the ones that are hard to replace along with any that you paid real money to get.

Remember you only have 35 days from date of demolition to reclaim your gil and items from the Resident Caretaker. Don't delay if you're getting close to the deadline.

Claim the gil first.

Then remove any items that have desynthesis information in the tooltip and desynthesis them. If it's a one per estate item or otherwise expensive to acquire, you may want to keep those instead of desynthesizing depending on cost to replace (it's easy to get a new Summoning Bell, not so easy to replace a Head of the Dreadwyrm).

Then remove any items that have a Shop Selling Price listed and vendor them. If a vendor is selling them, then they'll be easy to replace later.

Finally remove the remaining items. What's left should mostly be the cash shop items along with food items, Imitation Windows and Partitions. The cash shop items are the important ones to store on your retainers or in your Chocobo Saddlebag. The food items, partitions and windows are easy to replace.

The e-mails aren't always reliable. I've definitely gone to 30 days before but didn't get anything. I always check the Estate tab in game since that's a lot more reliable.

The first email doesn't get sent until the game shows 35 days without entry into the house and the second at 41 days.

The Estate Timer will always be the first notification.

[Kyrj]

People forget one key fact. Square Enix isn’t like Blizzard. They don’t have the resources to keep a player’s house active 24/7. We all know the company is failing right now, and to be honest, that’s our fault. We could’ve bought another fantasia or mount, but we didn’t. And now the company is poor. Guess who has to pay for our insubordination? Us.

Our stinginess has consequences. Imagine if you were CEO of Square Enix and everyone unsubscribed to your game. How would that make you feel?

At this point, I think Square Enix needs to consider Kickstarter or Patreon for this game. They’re not doing very well and could use the support. Or at least allow us to tip with our subscriptions.

If only I could tack 100 more retainers to my sub. A small price to pay....

[Mr_Gyactus]

The answer is to write /timers ingame or press CTRL+u .
This window has a lot of useful informations, for example what type of item a specific custom delivery npc wants.
When your house is "at risk of demolition" this window has an alert.

[Ath192]

They need to add a glamour dresser to the house. Or. a static room with the glamour dresser in it so that it would be identical to accessing it from the inn or the barracks.

A lot more people would go in their homes if they could do that.

[AngelCheese77]

So you didnt use your house over 45 days and it got demo'd

where is the problem again?

Problem is Yahoo mail sucks.