Quote Originally Posted by Odeon View Post
People will always be bored.
I know there's "the housing issue" but seriously, if they are bored, people should just cancel their subs, and go somewhere else, it's what every normal person does: you're not going to pay to force yourself to play a game you feel you've completed. What's the big deal ?

This is what happens all the time: people come back after months to try out the new expansion, complete it in one or two months, and then they leave. That's not so weird. Just put the game in hiatus, and come back when you feel like it.

And the housing market be damned.
You actually mention the exact issue why I keep my sub running. My OH and me have waited a long time to get a house in the spot where we wanted it and it drained our funds quite a bit. While we are bored, we both still love FFXIV and the idea that the house will be gone and we can't have a new one because of the market is quite a turn off.

FFXIV is designed for you to take breaks but when they introduced housing decay because of their sub optimal housing setting, they knew what they were doing. It's not just because of the system but they know that people get attached to their houses and keep paying despite not playing.