[Suggestion] Monthly Housing Upkeep

[Squintina]

How about making this only if a player has more than one house?

So players who are more casual don't have to pay a fee to keep their house.

[Sylvaneste]

STOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP! SE is ALREADY being a pain in teh hiney.......

SE said they woudl not require people to even have subs to keep their houses. So if you wante dto take a break you could.....Now you lose your house.

Heavens forbid your computer fries. Like mine actually did. Took me 6 months to replace it. Thankfully, wifey had a computer and could log in and "enter" the house.

SE not only requires people to have active subs. But also requires you to log in once a month and enter the stupid house. What if i just want to take a break, take a few months off, go on vacation, need surgery in a foreign country (like i actually did, was out of country for over a month). You lose your house! I lost a house and everything in it, including all of the money i should have gotten back. Sucks to be me.

Point is, no, SE should just instance the housing, make ALL of the houses just like they do the apartments. Fix the problem, but do not make any more burdens on those of us who bust our asses, play the markets, sell our souls to get houses.

[MistyMew]

Rift doesn't charge me additional fees to keep all 13 + dimensions across multiple characters, they don't expect me to log in after X amount of time or I will lose them either.

/no

SE, fix the problem of availability. Dish out the bucks to make it happen.
Instanced is a start...begin there plz. as suggested years ago.

tyty

[touya]

I'm still waiting for the thread creator to tell me what TOS these players broke in the article. He seems to be wanting to ignore the fact that these players did NOT break any TOS. I am still wanting SE to give a 45 day or a perma ban to everyone that has been harassing these players in any way for them to lose their hard work, this way those harassers learn a good lesson. If there is no violation of TOS, then nothing needs to be done. This is FACT.

[SirBrighton]

Is that the only reason you're sticking around? Okay, they aren't doing anything against the ToS.

Now to show you why that's a problem.

If I worked to and eventually owned all the houses and apartments on every server and wouldn't give a single one up, I still wouldn't be breaking the ToS, right? If I am single-handedly saying "no, you don't get to enjoy this content", you would be completely fine with that, and in fact defend me for doing so? The housing system is flawed in that it allows a player to do just this. Just because something's not against the ToS doesn't mean it isn't unfair.
I'm not saying they should give up their houses, I'm saying make it so one person can't potentially own them all.

[Abnoba]

in fact defend me for doing so? The housing system is flawed in that it allows a player to do just this.

Honestly, yes. I don't know these people but when they did nothing wrong I would stand up for them. Would it suck for the rest of us, hells to the yeah, but it doesn't mean we should go after them with fire. You could politely ask them what it would take to buy a plot from them. These were houses that no one wanted for a long time. So to answer your question, yes, I would stand up for you if you didn't break the terms of service. Yes, I would back your choice to be able to do something and be proud of your accomplishments. Side note though: you are only allowed 8 toons per server = 8 house+8appt+8 fc houses per server. One person alone couldn't do it. Grab a friend or two to reach this goal. Hell I'll even help level up your fc's to get 'er done. Have a wonderful day.

[Elamys]

I'm still waiting for the thread creator to tell me what TOS these players broke in the article. He seems to be wanting to ignore the fact that these players did NOT break any TOS. I am still wanting SE to give a 45 day or a perma ban to everyone that has been harassing these players in any way for them to lose their hard work, this way those harassers learn a good lesson. If there is no violation of TOS, then nothing needs to be done. This is FACT.

House reselling technically isn't against the TOS either, but SE still punishes players for doing so. There is a provision in the TOS that basically amounts to "if you are preventing other players from enjoying the game," and while I doubt they're going to do anything in this case, one person owning all of those houses in a congested server could certainly be seen as doing such. It's the same logic they use for the house resellers - you're locking a significant portion of the playerbase out of the feature. Just because it isn't explicitly stated in the TOS doesn't mean SE would never do anything about it. They can't detail every possible situation so that's why that one exists.

[Abnoba]

So in all actuality, the 2 of them could have a max of together: 16 toons leveled to 50+ with GC standings at max (all of them), 16 personal houses, 16 FC houses, and 16 apartments for a grand total of: 32 houses and 16 apartments and 16 personal rooms in the FCs (all on one server of course). They also did this pre-SB and pre-jump potions. Now remember how long it took you to get 1 toon to 50 + GC at max rank. They really did put in the work for this. Let it go.

[Acilith]

So in all actuality, the 2 of them could have a max of together: 16 toons leveled to 50+ with GC standings at max (all of them), 16 personal houses, 16 FC houses, and 16 apartments for a grand total of: 32 houses and 16 apartments and 16 personal rooms in the FCs (all on one server of course). They also did this pre-SB and pre-jump potions. Now remember how long it took you to get 1 toon to 50 + GC at max rank. They really did put in the work for this. Let it go.

Everyone seems to forget this part.

[Aldotsk]

You know what, lol. Let's just give a ward per account so that 8 characters can buy many plots as much as they want. Then they can build a village.

(Why didn't they do this to begin with...)