Will inactive FC and unsubbed player plots ever be relinquished?

[Nicobo]

FYI YoshiP said this is a thing of the past.

//quote
1:14:22
Q: Will there be any maintenance fees or other costs for housing, besides the cost of the land and house?

A: In older MMOs, such as Ultima Online, there was a house maintenance fee you had to pay weekly, but in FFXIV: ARR we decided against this system. Similarly, these older MMOs also had a system where your house would break down if you didn’t log in after a while in order to have you continue your subscription, but this is a thing of the past and we won't have any system like that.
//end quote

[Pterois]

FYI YoshiP said this is a thing of the past.

//quote
1:14:22
Q: Will there be any maintenance fees or other costs for housing, besides the cost of the land and house?

A: In older MMOs, such as Ultima Online, there was a house maintenance fee you had to pay weekly, but in FFXIV: ARR we decided against this system. Similarly, these older MMOs also had a system where your house would break down if you didn’t log in after a while in order to have you continue your subscription, but this is a thing of the past and we won't have any system like that.
//end quote

am i reading this right... even if you have a canceled sub your house will never go away?

[Zelas]

Oh well, guess we won't be buying a house any time soon.

[MomomiMomi]

FYI YoshiP said this is a thing of the past.

//quote
1:14:22
Q: Will there be any maintenance fees or other costs for housing, besides the cost of the land and house?

A: In older MMOs, such as Ultima Online, there was a house maintenance fee you had to pay weekly, but in FFXIV: ARR we decided against this system. Similarly, these older MMOs also had a system where your house would break down if you didn’t log in after a while in order to have you continue your subscription, but this is a thing of the past and we won't have any system like that.
//end quote

And yet not long after, they mentioned that you would lose your house after 35 days, which was only retracted because of the overwhelmingly negative feedback. I won't even go into the mess that was personal housing. You can't trust everything they say.

[TheRogueX]

TBH, for Personal Housing you should either have to pay a rental fee each week (but be able to pay in advance up to x amount of weeks) or there should be an inactivity time limit (perhaps 90 days for a subbed account but only 35 days for an unsubbed account). Houses should also be shared across all characters on that server, and should be limited to one per server. I don't know why SE keeps making such bad decisions on these things.

[Talia_Hailwind]

if they make it so that the house goes away after some time then it would put me off getting one in the first place.

I'm thinking about getting a medium house and theres about 7-8 left on cerberus. We just need more wards I think.

[TheRogueX]

More wards doesn't necessarily solve the problem, though. It actually amplifies it.

[Nicobo]

And yet not long after, they mentioned that you would lose your house after 35 days, which was only retracted because of the overwhelmingly negative feedback. I won't even go into the mess that was personal housing. You can't trust everything they say.

Please note that, previously the idea of 35days was "just no access your house for 35days regardless your logon status / having sub or not".
And this idea was introuduced before Personal Housing, at that moment, most players did not expect Personal Housing will be so similar to FC Housing. ^^;

[Nicobo]

am i reading this right... even if you have a canceled sub your house will never go away?

Right, and it would be a problem.

It will not ATM. And I would like to suggest:

For unsubbed players, ofcoz yes.
Ideally just delete these players after 3months, since FC will be auto-dismissed if all members are deleted,
so both the Personal houses and FC houses owned by them will be relinquished.
SE should allow them to restore their characters when they re-sub, but just lost their land with compansation.

For subbed players but have not logged on for months, definitely no.
As it would be the option for considering and resolving ppl who have issues and cannot logon for months.

[MomomiMomi]

Please note that, previously the idea of 35days was "just no access your house for 35days regardless your logon status / having sub or not".
And this idea was introuduced before Personal Housing, at that moment, most players did not expect Personal Housing will be so similar to FC Housing. ^^;

But you can't access the house unless if you're subbed. My small FC is taking a break together. If this was implemented, we would have lost our house as a result because none of us were subbed to access the house. Which is contrary to the quote of what they said they would not do. So, I reiterate, you can't trust what they say.