Quote Originally Posted by BreathlessTao View Post
I'm completely baffled at the fact that a few whiners forced SE's hands not to implement such a feature. It's completely reasonable in general, to be honest; and especially with the housing system this game has, how limited and poorly executed it is in its mechanics, I think it's absolutely vital to have an auto-relinquish feature.

It probably just clashes with FF14's identity as a "casual" mmo.. I would assume Japanese attitudes had more to do with it than what NA/EU people did..