Shared house doesn't count for Auto-demolition.... FOR REAL SE?!

[Lan_Mantear]

Why should I be punished because a few people that want housing and some of them are people that subscribe with months skip.. why should I get punished?

You, specifically, are not being punished. The policies in place applies to everyone.

Now I was able to do something about it... but what about next time?
What about if I go to hospital for something and then come back and my house is demolished..
Its fuckin stupid.

I'm fairly certain that if you had go to the hospital to address a health issue. Your immediate concern, upon return, should not be your fantasy house being demolished.

All levity aside, I understand your gripe. I would probably feel pissed, the same as you, if I had to install/reinstall this game in the middle of my vacation just to keep a virtual house. Mind you, I would still do it grumbling all the while.

Right or wrong, SE did clearly communicate their policies around auto-demolition. Since the house is that important to you, it was on you, not SE, to plan for it accordingly.

[MomomiMomi]

Right or wrong, SE did clearly communicate their policies around auto-demolition. Since the house is that important to you, it was on you, not SE, to plan for it accordingly.

Yes, they very clearly communicated their policy.

In older MMOs, such as Ultima Online, there was a house maintenance fee you had to pay weekly, but in FFXIV: ARR we decided against this system. Similarly, these older MMOs also had a system where your house would break down if you didn’t log in after a while in order to have you continue your subscription, but this is a thing of the past and we won't have any system like that.

[Lan_Mantear]

Yes, they very clearly communicated their policy.

Bringing up an old quote to super-cede an existing one doesn't serve a purpose beyond muddying the waters. Especially when the patch notes found here: http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...c91d884c6b6a84 clearly states the policies as is.

Companies communicate to their consumers based on the current state of their product. The fact is, things change, and unless you see in a release note, its all talk and empty promises.

[MomomiMomi]

Bringing up an old quote to super-cede an existing one doesn't serve a purpose beyond muddying the waters. Especially when the patch notes found here: http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...c91d884c6b6a84 clearly states the policies as is.

Companies communicate to their consumers based on the current state of their product. The fact is, things change, and unless you see in a release note, its all talk and empty promises.

That old quote existed when the majority of people bought their houses. To say it's not on SE is quite simply wrong. Yeah, we have to live with the change. But it was their decision to change it, and their decision to make such a short time period that doesn't even match up with a patch cycle. That's on them.

[Atrious]

I guess you missed the part where we're getting new wards in 3.3 and then apartments and Ishgard housing after that.

The housing reclamation was only the first step of their plan to alleviate the housing issues.

alleviate but not solve because what they have now is terrible. All you white knights need to open your eyes.

[Jinxie]

Have to disagree. Reclamation is a necessity, yes, but 45 days isn't. 90 days would have gotten the job done as well in opening up houses from people who have moved on, and would have had less effect on those who are still planning to return.

Let me clarify, the number of days attached to reclamation is irrelevant to me. The thing I'm saying is necessity is reclamation as a whole. It could be 45 days, 10 days or 200 days. Reclamation is a necessity for housing is at present, the number of days they slap on before doing so doesn't matter much to me.

[Jinxie]

I have my Mog House in FFXI and its going to stay there nothing happening to it.

Like I said before. First should have been the 1 per account rather than 45 days thing. With the 45 days things there is a lot of people in game with no life and full cap money on all retainers and shit. That just go and buy houses and then they just need to go there every so often because no lifers have no life except game.

As for your FFXI house (which is an utterly different game, but I'll amuse you) I played FFXI too. It was one mog house per character. Not per account, so using FFXI to argue your point that every account should only have one house is rather silly considering your main point for it is a game which provided every character on every account a house.

Every character had a house, not every account. I'm an altaholic, I played FFXI and had cap characters each with their own unique mog-houses. FFXI was built on an entirely different housing platform than FFXIV. It's like comparing an apple to an orange. YES they're both fruit, but they're decidedly different.

No matter how much you shout at the apple to become an orange, when you cut it open it's still going to be an apple. Rather than fondle all these fruits, how about we stay on topic to the game at hand.

We've got an apple here, and we have to work with that.