Disclaimer: If I have misinterpreted or not figured something out as it should be, please correct me. Otherwise this is how I've seen how the housing timer works.


My story goes as such, 30 days ago I took a break from XIV to play other things and work on my backlog while the content lull was around. Today I went to look at my account management and lodestone info to determine how close I was to the 45 day housing demolition timer. I'm in a FC by myself because of special circumstances, and since I'm alone in my house and FC, there isn't anyone else that can access it to cancel the timer as it ticks. But my issue started when I went to my FC page to look at the info there. There was no evidence of me even still having or having ever had a house. On the Lodestone it said "No estate or plot" at the bottom of the information. So my panic attack started that somehow I was already gone for 45 days and I never got an email about my house and it was just destroyed already.

I renew with a time card and quickly login to check(hoped to wait longer till the next patch but no go), and my house to my relief is still there, but I had last logged in on the 23rd of April, so just at 30 days ago. But if I don't have an active sub, there is no way for me to ascertain this, especially since the Lodestone blatantly lied to me and said that I didn't even have a house. There was no record of having one there or anywhere else that I saw.

If we're going to have a housing timer in this game, I need to be able to observe it from outside of the game, because there was no way for me to tell if I was getting close to that deadline. 15 days from it being demolished and I wasn't even sure if I got the email about it either, but I wasn't close to that deadline which is the final countdown of sorts, so I had no way to verify where I was at unless I wrote down my last time logged in. TBH an MMO is not a game to be played repeatedly for long stretches of time, there are going to be dry spells and those are the times to go and play other games or do other activities, but for this game being in my own FC and house besides shared estate wise, I have no way to check into this sort of thing from outside of the game, and it would be nice if the Lodestone had accurate info to this end. /wall