House Gone after Hospitalization

[Bloodkraft]

Sorry to hear about your house. My pc broke down and i i got a warning email and after 3 weeks got my replacement part, fixed my pc and saved my house. i would have been very upset to loose my home after all these years. I also think they should be subscription based. Good luck and hope you are well.

[Lissandra]

A little late to this, but a few years ago I was hospitalized once for over a week due to pneumonia and complications stemming from it. I had things growing in my garden and I absolutely did not want them to perish. If I recall, they were thav. onions and at the time were valuable and useful to me.

This isn't something you openly say you'll do, but I had my brother log onto my account for me from my computer and he tended to my garden and helped me harvest my plants. And if I had ended up staying there for over a month for whatever reason, I would definitely have had my brother reset my house's timer for me as well.

[Lukha]

Ugh, this is why they need to tie the timer to your active sub or something.

[Penthea]

45 days is too short. There are so many real life situations that can easily take you away from your gaming rig for even longer than that. The demolition timer should be the same as game cards which is 60 days. It's not uncommon for people to be unable to play for a month, but much less so for two months.

Tenants should be able to reset timers. I don't understand why this isn't the case. It's very common for people to pool their gil together to buy a home and furnish it together. SE know this, they have direct access to any data pointing to this. Yet the housing system acts like this is a rare occurrence so only owners of private homes can reset the timer. This is incredibly unfair on players who poured resources into the house but can do -nothing- to keep it.

The housing system is far better than before but better does not mean perfect. The demolition timer and how it can be reset really needs to be revisited by SE because it is currently too punishing.

[worldofneil]

It's not uncommon for people to be unable to play for a month, but much less so for two months.

I think this really will depend per person... For example I don't think there's been a single day in the last few years that I haven't logged in, even if it was just for a brief time. But no matter what figure they set, there will always be someone who says it's not long enough. If there's a problem with someone's hardware, they only need to login on another machine to quickly walk inside and reset the timer. The Windows version of the game will even run from a USB drive.

Tenants should be able to reset timers. I don't understand why this isn't the case. It's very common for people to pool their gil together to buy a home and furnish it together.

The house is only owned by a single individual. I appreciate it might not always be the most convenient, but if it's a shared house then really it should be owned by a Free Company, at which point any person can reset the timer.

[Penthea]

I think this really will depend per person...

I was basing what I said from my 10+ years playing mmos. I have found it's not unusual for people to be unable to play for a month, but much less common to be unable to play for two. 45 days doesn't even match with any subscription format. It is obviously designed to be awkward.

The house is only owned by a single individual. I appreciate it might not always be the most convenient, but if it's a shared house then really it should be owned by a Free Company, at which point any person can reset the timer.

Yea we all know that's why it works the way it does. That doesn't make it a fair or good system.

[Bahati]

This is really unfortunate. I'm not sure I appreciate a GM telling you to post here, are they not able to submit concerns to tech support themselves? I don't have high hopes for you, while I wish there was more wiggle room for unforseen circumstances like this at the same time I'm sure everyone who just didn't feel like maintaining their home would also claim "illness" when they want their house back.

[Naria]

Honestly I doubt there would be any outrage from the larger gaming sites about this issue specifically. FFXIV's housing problems do get articles written about them but being able to loose your mog station items when you loose your house has been around since they started they started selling housing items on the mog station and I think I've only seen it occasionally mentioned in articles. It used to be worse since you could buy a seasonal wallpaper and loose it if you changed the wallpaper in your house. I'm not saying this isn't a problem--SE sould give us some way to require cash items in game if they have been lost etc or hold all items in a deleted house permanently if they are worried about people using the fact that tenets and FC members can pick up bound items to sell Mog Station items to other players for gil.

[Besame]

I feel your pain because I am an avid housing person. I hope you are feeling better and back to whatever game suits your fancy. Honestly, if I lost my house due to something like that, I would unsub as it is the only thing that keeps me tied to FF on a monthly basis especially since the disaster of Pagos and other things recently. I agree housing should be tied to sub cost and it was originally presented in that fashion as you can read in my sig. At this point, tying people to subs via their houses are a way to ensure at least some constant income. I have friends that would unsub also if not tied in. There will come a day however, with all SE's shenanigans that enough will be enough.