Time on House removal/reclaming is way to short! (private houseing)

[Liavain_Axon]

45 days is wayyyy to short. That basically means I have to play FFXIV or else now. If cant take any time off without losing my home!

That's horrible SE!

This needs to be like 6 months, or 3 months at the shortest!

This feels like black mail since anyone might have to stop playing for a few months and you arent even giving them two full pay periods to take a break in!

Is this how you plan on keeping your customers long term? Blackmail?

This is pathetic.

No offense, but we have limited plots of housing and adding more requires more fiddling with server hardware. Having a house in FFXIV is a privilege only few can have. Adding the requirement of logging in once a month to keep a house is reasonable.

Private houses serve only few actual purposes. Having an inactive home is selfish. If you can't be bothered to log in once a month, then maybe having a house isn't for you.

First off sharing a house does squat since they made it strictly up to the owner to stop it from being demolished. Secondly, and this is the big kicker that is pissing most people off, just paying the sub won't stop demolition. When I was deployed on a ship I couldn't exactly bring my gaming desktop with me for 6 months and I was single so I didn't have anyone to pop in and log in for me, not to mention the fact I have an authenticator so that wouldn't be an option anyways. Remember SE doesn't sell physical authenticators and I'm not leaving my phone in an empty apartment for 6+ months. If we could just pay our subs and not have to worry about a time limit that wouldn't be as bad, still a money grab from hell that no other MMO has ever done to their player base, but would still be manageable. The first houses will be freeing up around christmas and guess what there will still be a vast housing shortage across all servers because they only made enough houses for about 1-2% of the player population. A little over 1k houses per server is like putting a drop in an empty pond and expecting it be full. This is a quick grab at money and placating to everyone screaming. Its not going to fix the problem at all but everyone who called for this is so proud of themselves and think they did so well until this goes sideways and people start getting screwed. For a game that advertises housing for its players not only have they failed miserably at delivering but now they're taking houses away unless you pay them and have time to get on. Imagine if this wasn't housing. Imagine if instead it was gear or levels. You'd be pretty pissed if you weren't able to log in and after 45days you started loosing hard earned levels or gear. Well housing is pretty dang hardwork to save up for and maintain. I spend time crafting and gardening just so that I can have my own little spot. If I can't make it to my computer after just a month and half and I lose all my hardwork because of something purely out of my control then I'm not going to pay for a sub to a game that screwed me and I'm gonna warn everyone else I know who plays. Honestly you'd be shocked how many service member play MMOs. There's a lot of us and none are going to put up with getting screwed over for doing their job.

Simple solution- Remove the Authenticator to let someone you authorize to log in and put it back on afterwards. You can do this via any web browser or even your phone.

Ultima Online required you to log into your home once a week to keep it "refreshed". (They did change that eventually for people who only had one home)
Archage requires you to pay "taxes" on your home every week to keep it or it gets demolished. (Only subscribers can pay taxes)

The current housing system does need a rework. Everyone should have the capability to have a home.