Please, make auto-demolition 90-120 days. It's time.

[AstreaLove]

Here's a better idea, remove auto demolishing.
Make more plots, wards & subdivisions instead and make housing cheaper. Since if there's more plots then it'll be more accessible to more players, and with more plots there wouldn't be any need for demolishing to occur in the first place.

[Hallarem]

Here's a better idea, remove auto demolishing.
Make more plots, wards & subdivisions instead and make housing cheaper. Since if there's more plots then it'll be more accessible to more players, and with more plots there wouldn't be any need for demolishing to occur in the first place.

Countdown to someone defending this good take with something like:

"Oh but then SE would have to work, and thats hard" or something equally silly.

[ovIm]

Here's a better idea, remove auto demolishing.
Make more plots, wards & subdivisions instead and make housing cheaper. Since if there's more plots then it'll be more accessible to more players, and with more plots there wouldn't be any need for demolishing to occur in the first place.

The demolishing is a feature the community requested so people that fully retire from FFXIV do not leave their plots behind. Since housing is limited, its just inefficient to keep stacking availability on top. So really, the demolishing makes sense (the short timer for the demolition however does not)

IMHO, a better solution would be to create a new instanced housing system, and give players a good proper incentive to move to that one, slowly decommissioning that crap system that we are stuck with now.

[Reimmi]

The demolishing is a feature the community requested so people that fully retire from FFXIV do not leave their plots behind. Since housing is limited, its just inefficient to keep stacking availability on top. So really, the demolishing makes sense (the short timer for the demolition however does not)

IMHO, a better solution would be to create a new instanced housing system, and give players a good proper incentive to move to that one, slowly decommissioning that crap system that we are stuck with now.

Removing demolishing, and moving some of the dead server housing to the other data centers would be a smart move. And then add new wards when needed

[hydralus]

Countdown to someone defending this good take with something like:

"Oh but then SE would have to work, and thats hard" or something equally silly.

It's a terrible take. Someone leaves the game but their unused house is just sitting there forever? Just move to instanced housing, boom, done.

[Clockworks]

It's a terrible take. Someone leaves the game but their unused house is just sitting there forever? Just move to instanced housing, boom, done.

Meanwhile at SE's HQ :

"Hydralus said we should move to instanced housing guys and lose what is basically close to our entire income from FFXIV since a massive amount of people are locked to their subscriptions because of their house or just the bidding cycle in general, you heard em, time to lose all our money !"

[hydralus]

Meanwhile at SE's HQ :

"Hydralus said we should move to instanced housing guys and lose what is basically close to our entire income from FFXIV since a massive amount of people are locked to their subscriptions because of their house or just the bidding cycle in general, you heard em, time to lose all our money !"

I know it'll never happen. Neither will they turn off the autodemo forever. But if we're fantasizing about nonsense solutions may as well fantasize about ones that work for everyone.

[Nero-Voidstails]

and also if you have a casual friend just get them a tenant right they only have to walk it once a month to reset the timer

[Musashidon]

Meanwhile at SE's HQ :

"Hydralus said we should move to instanced housing guys and lose what is basically close to our entire income from FFXIV since a massive amount of people are locked to their subscriptions because of their house or just the bidding cycle in general, you heard em, time to lose all our money !"

they would make more money with housing items on the cash shop in a week from instance housing for everyone then they made ever from people who felt locked into a sub because of a house.

[Clockworks]

they would make more money with housing items on the cash shop in a week from instance housing for everyone then they made ever from people who felt locked into a sub because of a house.

No they would not make more money from those, and if they did, it would be a one time boost while people get them, and then it would stagnate, while ward housing and keeping it as it is gives money very long term.