Quote Originally Posted by Titor View Post
I have posted a full post on this here, completely against reclaiming land.
Tl;dr version:
People go away for personal problems, illnesses, military, health issues, etc, with every intent to return.
People who bought mediums/larges may have been saving up for months, and the amount for them is no trivial matter on a legacy server, so it would be a detrimental loss
It would NOT solve the issue in the long-run. It is not even a good band-aid. It is unfair (thought the current system is unfair, this would just shift it in the other direction
What we SHOULD be doing is asking for more wards, try to get SE to prioritize it, that way it could be fair for both current homeowners and people who want to buy homes now.
Except that those people who leave with plans to return are in the minority, sure there is a population surge with every update and most likely even more come 3.0, but we have yet to see population hit the peak it did right after 2.0 launched. This shows that steadily, people who are leaving the game, are doing so with the intent of not coming back. They tried it, they didn't like it for some reason or another and cancelled their sub. How is it fair to paying customers for that persons plots to sit vacant for the rest of the many years (hopefully) this game will be around?

As I mentioned in a previous post, I'm not against more wards being added, in fact I'd love that more than reclaim system being added. However, devs have already mentioned the reason for not adding enough wards was limited server storage. Reclaim would be easier to implement while we wait for SE to get more servers, since until they do get them, we are very unlikely to get any decent amount of wards added.