PSA/ALERT: Houses are getting demolished when they shouldn't. SE needs to see this!

[Cylla]

Or better yet, finally accept the housing system they have is silly and embrace instanced housing for all players as a permanent purchase. You know, a thought sprinkled with some seasoning of reason.

This so much ^ but we all know SE not going to back down on their "community like feel" :rolls eyes:

[Luna-M]

Should just stop it every summer. We have wildfires here pretty much every year.

So do we in Europe but isnt the wildfires really bad this year?

[MomomiMomi]

So do we in Europe but isnt the wildfires really bad this year?

They're really bad almost every year. Not as bad as last year yet, but close.

On a personal level, almost had to evacuate last year. Evacuation zone was just right across the street. Just had to put up with heavy smoke in the air this year.

Check out our yearly statistics. So much burning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...rly_statistics

[Wolftamer]

They stopped NA/EU last year when there was a disaster (Florida I think, excuse this European not keeping up to date with the news). Though I'm a little surprised they haven't stopped them in NA due to the California fires.

They did, but they didn't do it until about a month or so after they hit. It took a lot of begging by the community to finally get SE to do something.

[Rymm]

If things are that bad in Europe or California (all I know is what I see on the international news and it's tough to judge just based on that) I would suggest petitioning SE to halt the timer. It's what the players did when those hurricanes were wrecking the Gulf and I think that is by far the largest reason they got the timer paused. Like I said, it's hard to get an idea how bad things really are when they are happening in other countries. It could be that SE is aware that something is going on, but not grasp the magnitude of the impact it is having on the playerbase.

Squeaky wheel gets the grease, and all that.

[Mysteltain]

Huh, this would explain why entering my personal house yesterday gave me the "Auto-Demolition Canceled" message yesterday. I had been in my house at least two weeks prior, so it was rather strange to see that.

[Elamys]

I logged in and checked my timers, no demolition timer appears, which is normal if you're like me and use your house daily. Very concerning.

[Optinator]

Welp I lost my Lavender Beds cottage. No warning email whatsoever. I basically use it as my home base and this time it was just gone. Submitted a bug report but.. yeah, not getting my hopes up. I'm not fuming angry or anything, but this is a serious issue that needs looking into, no? Or is housing that much of an afterthought now?

[InkstainedGwyn]

I am curious, as it was mentioned before about retainers, etc.... can we pin a common denominator in the demolished houses? Would it be something like "accessing your retainers inside"?

[Amira]

Drinking my coffee, reading stories about this issue (not only here but on reddit as well), and my heart goes out to anyone that this has affected.

As someone who's main reason for subbing is to maintain a house that I've poured RL time and RL money towards, this is terrifying. I wasn't a crafter, I had no IG way to make fast gil, and through effort and some charitable donations from friends, I saved up enough to purchase my small plot, which was a huge gaming milestone for me. I remember the day I bought it, logging out right in front of that plot before maintenance, not getting any sleep so I can log in as soon as servers were back up. Even before they added the basements, I didn't think twice about dropping what was my entire nest egg on my house.

I was so happy, even now - years later, I still sit in my humble little garden and reminisce of old friends visiting me (who have since unsubbed), cooking food before raiding, perfecting my rotation on my training dummy, visiting houses in the neighborhood, watching the plot next to me go up, then get demo'd, then a new one go back up. I wonder then how many of us have these same feelings, same memories, same attachments to our houses, our friends houses, our FC's houses. Doesn't matter if it's a mansion, or a small one, doesn't matter if your decor was years in the making or you simply need a place to put all those event posters SE seems to love giving us (THEY DON'T MATCH ANYTHING! >.<). To think that a bug in game, or a flaw in a code, could rob a player of all those feelings, of all that time, and ESPECIALLY of all that money both in-game and in real life, is heart wrenching.

I personally would have little reason to log in and maintain my sub.

There's a content drought till September and even when a new flood of content, a new expansion, whatever, comes out - I would be homeless in game, I would have lost a place I return to, a place I log out of. I would have lost my altar to Minfilia, my altar to Papalymo, even my altar to the Sultana (before it wasn't needed anymore). I would have lost a home I shared with my in game husband who is also my real life one.

I highly doubt the people who have reported losing their houses out of nowhere are making it up, they've submitted tickets, they've called GM's, they've called hotlines, they've reached out. If it happens that they've fabricated this whole thing then shame on them, but even if there's a chance, however minute, that this could affect ANY of us, at ANY time, without warning, this should be looked into, this should be a concern for all of us. Think deeply about the IG homes you own, or your FC owns, or those who's homes you've visited. Maybe you've written on their guest book, maybe you've practiced on their own training dummy, maybe you've wanted to burn down their outdoor decoration for bringing down the property values of the neighborhood (YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE!).

There's ultimately a person (people) behind that avatar who owns that house, so let's try to not only be sympathetic, but also escalate this, sticky this, bring some light into this issue. Just because millions of players haven't experienced it, it doesn't mean it couldn't affect you. We don't want to have to wait until 5 people becomes 50 or becomes 500, before this becomes "real".