Quote Originally Posted by BroodingFicus View Post
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I love the game and obviously there are limitations to what the server can handle but punishing the players, even if they are willing to pay you for the privilege of keeping their house, seems out of sorts to me both as a matter of trust and from a business stand point.
After reading comments / thinking about this for weeks - I'm in agreement now with some people that the entire point of the reclaim system is to:

1) "Hey look - we are doing something about the housing issues!"
2) Abuse the lack of housing as a means of subscriber boosts / retention

Unfortunately, especially with the timing /scope of the free login period, I believe 2 is more important to SE then making the reclaim system make any sense or to be fair.