I've Lost Everything

[Elamys]

It doesnt work in inactive housing though, no one wants to live in a ward looking like detroit - viod of all life and empty structures. Demo timer addresses that.

You mean like Mist ward 2 subdivision on Balmung? My ward? The one where I've only seen my neighbors a grand total of three times in the six months I've owned the house? The one with the completely empty, locked mansion behind me, or the small on the other half of the neighborhood that only has an aetheryte shard? Or, for an example of a lively ward, we can look at the mansion next to my FC lead's apartment building, with its gardens full of dead thavnairian onions.

The demo timer has its place, but let's not pretend it should be necessary or that the ward system is good. The ward system is garbage. It always has been. I don't see my neighbors. Ever. And most of the posters on here have that same experience. The wards are dead.

I don't like the demo timer. I understand why it's there, but I think it punishes people (like OP) who, for whatever reason, had to stop playing. Other games do not have this problem.

And even with the ward system, why can't the NPC hang onto the items indefinitely? I imagine "because the servers" - somehow, the second most popular MMO on the market has servers that can't handle what a dress up game I play on my mobile phone can.