Quote Originally Posted by Anova View Post
Technically, players have paid for the house and the land in full.
Oh really? They've paid in gil, our in-game currency. So if SE would start charging us more gil that statment would make more sense. I'm looking at this way: While I earned the right to have a house (or earned enough gil... however you want to express that) all the data is still stored at the servers of SE - and those arent running for free. I'm paying real money for my sub and for that service - that not only include the housing but a lot of other stuff... but with SE always saying "we cant add more storage because servers cant handle it" I feel a bit... bitter about people saying "hey, I wont pay for your service - so please store all my data for free until I come back!". I'm not an expert on programming but I would suppose that its a lot more stress on the server to store a house (with furniture) than you retainers/personal inventory. But with housing being such a limited thing... npt paying for the service? Let someone have it who is paying for it then!

It might would be some sort of a compromiss for personal homes to give the "power" of resetting the timer to everyone you've marked as a "friend of the house" (sorry, no better way to put it right now - what I'm meaning by that: The system they wanted to add to share the house with a few people that you would have to pick first - therefor it would be like a small FC)