I've Lost Everything

[Rymm]

The only reason housing is a limited resource is because SE was stubborn about having that community feel and created a crappy ward system that allowed such limitation to occur. If they had put in instanced housing (at least for personal houses), none of this would have been an issue.

I agree that the ward system as it exists now is untenable and that instanced housing would have been vastly preferable if they can't make enough wards for everyone to have housing. But we don't have instanced housing and there aren't enough wards for everyone so, here we are. This is why, as I said before, I support the auto-demo until SE fixes housing so it's not so utterly broken. If housing were like mounts and everyone got one, then the demo timer wouldn't be necessary and we wouldn't be having this conversation.

I will agree though that the expiration timer on recovering your items and gil is absolutely unnecessary. I've never heard a satisfactory explanation for not holding stuff for people for a longer time period, if not indefinitely.