Reclamation of Inactive Housing announced

[RiceisNice]

As much as I'm glad they are finaly doing something about the housing situation this is just a bandaid and a bad one at that. Other than the first clean wave of totally unsubed characters getting their houses wiped I doubt this will effect the wards much at all.

I don't think anyone, or even SE themselves, had said that this is the end-all fix to housing issues. It's not. I don't recall it ever being mentioned as that. It's a step in the right direction in some aspects, as far as freeing up houses from people who can't be bothered to log in once every 45 days.

[XiXiQ]

I suspect few plots will be voluntarilly relinquished anymore, why would you do that when you can just wait it out and get your refund?

[Yeldir]

All of you against this change are self-centered crybabies with monstrous senses of entitlement. Wards are non-instanced content, and this means they are (compared to instanced, personal housing) expensive to host and maintain. You want SE to pay to host the homes of non-paying, non customers? Do you have any idea what that would do to FFXIV's budget as a whole? Do you think server towers grow on trees? Those funds you want pissed away should be used to develop and maintain new content, not burned on people who aren't even paying for the game!

[Eidolon]

All of you against this change are self-centered crybabies with monstrous senses of entitlement. Wards are non-instanced content, and this means they are (compared to instanced, personal housing) expensive to host and maintain. You want SE to pay to host the homes of non-paying, non customers? Do you have any idea what that would do to FFXIV's budget as a whole? Do you think server towers grow on trees? Those funds you want pissed away should be used to develop and maintain new content, not burned on people who aren't even paying for the game!

So what do you say to someone who is paying a monthly fee for the game... Who doesn't go into their house in 45 days and loses their house while paying a monthly fee?

[RiceisNice]

So what do you say to someone who is paying a monthly fee for the game... Who doesn't go into their house in 45 days and loses their house while paying a monthly fee?

They snooze, they lose? Everyone is paying a monthly fee.

If both people are paying monthly fees, are they both not at equal oppertunities (and thus, equal risk) of losing their housing? They're paying for at least of two months of sub and can't find a time to log in for a minute in the 45 day period, that's more than enough time for you to find some way to log in if housing was that important to you.

[AeraLure]

So what do you say to someone who is paying a monthly fee for the game... Who doesn't go into their house in 45 days and loses their house while paying a monthly fee?

They deserve to lose it? Honestly, because that is ridiculous. Log in once during that time for 2-3 minutes or teleport over to your house once in those 45 days if you are playing but don't use the house. If they are paying and for some reason can do neither of those things due to military service or extenuating circumstances, then a family member could.

The bigger issue I have with the whole thing is, for the investment, 45 days or you lose your house is too short. It should be 90 days, just like the development cycle. On top of that, they failed to address a potentially bigger problem, which is housing owned by alts. It really should be one house per one account, given how limited it is. When new plots open up it's almost a guarantee many will be picked up by alts.

[Yeldir]

So what do you say to someone who is paying a monthly fee for the game... Who doesn't go into their house in 45 days and loses their house while paying a monthly fee?

Something along the lines of "use it or lose it". "Whoops!" is also pretty good.

[Lexia]

If I have already bought my house and am currently paying for the game, how am I not paying to keep my house?
What kind of logic is that?

Are you paying a higher monthly fee the everyone else that does not have a house?

[Eimian_Eda]

Are you paying a higher monthly fee the everyone else that does not have a house?

The same kind of logic that you're using to jump from one example to another. Paying for your subs does not guaranteed housing, but it guarantees housing for people who may not even use it? In a 45 day period, when a typical sub covers 30 days? Your sub isn't any more important than mine or revolver bobcat's, but you still want to hold onto something that you may not use and is in limited quantity.

Last time I checked reclamation is for players who are un-active, quit the game. Gone.
So salty, these responses. I merely asked why I must also be required to enter my house. I'm sure I would, but I do think it's pretty silly.

[Sicno]

These forums and FF14 housing in a nutshell: