Quote Originally Posted by crc0427 View Post
It didn't delete your stuff. It should be at the housing caretaker along with 80% of your gil.
Only for 35 days, after that it gets deleted.

Quote Originally Posted by Donze View Post
That might be the case with some, but thats a confident 'we'. As mentioned in the OP, people seems to be under the delusion that nothing gets deleted (got this in the localization thread, reddit, facebook, etc).
Yes I think you are right and I owe you an apology for my assumption, sorry. I've played this game continously for 3 years without a break and during that time I've read every patch note and the majority of the forum posts by the community team and hang out on the FFXIV sub on reddit so I'd like to think I've not missed any information.

But I forget that I do not represent all players and that many players do take breaks and therefore won't necessarily be aware of all changes made. I bet there are probably even players who haven't ever had a break who have missed things in the patch notes etc.

From a player point of view I can see why they would want the data to remain indefinitely (even if you can't get the house back, getting back the items/gil would be something), but I can also see it from Square Enix's point of view that it's less data to have to worry about/bring along/update with future updates and also lets them take currency out of the worlds.

Maybe when housing reclamation goes live in 3.4 (assuming it's not pushed back again) they need to put up one of those popups like they do from time to time to tell people (they'll probably do this anyway), but also point out on there that if it's reclaimed/demolished, you only have 35 days to get your stuff back. I'm sure not everyone would read it, but they can only do so much if they're not going to change the system to keep it forever.