Please Remove the Inactivity Timer

[Saix027]

Common misconceptions

"The Inactivity Timer is meant to stop people owning several plots"
Wrong, but only by a technicality standpoint. The Inactivity timer was not meant to discourage or punish / penalize people having multiple plots. Just ensuring that they need to enter every plot once every month to maintain ownership. The timer itself originally was to ensure that, regardless of the player fluctuation, That there would still be availability On top of that, players that own multiple plots are from before the housing rework. Meaning they got those houses legitimately and played by the rules and systems they had at the time. SE can't do anything about it, as it would be deemed unfair for them to rip the houses the players earned away from them. No exceptions.

"The Inactivity timer is meant to stop overcrowding"
That's OUR fault, not SEs. They've tried time and time again to get us to spread out and, frankly, we just spit in their face. Nothing much can be done when people are stubborn.

"Housing is for everyone"
Also wrong. While yes, everyone deserves the right to have a go at housing, not everyone is going to GET a housing plot. The Housing Plots need to remain a finite resource in order to keep a demand. If everyone could get one, then there goes a major gil-sink for the game. It's doing its job. What people seem to enjoy ignoring is the apartments out there for people to own a house.

And before anyone says "Apartments aren't houses" or they're not proper instanced housing? Stop being picky. Yeah, you may not get every system with an apartment, but apartments don't auto-demo, they're permanent and about 3/4 the size of a Small (interior at least). For the price you're asked for its purchase, it's a pretty great deal. For everything else, just join an FC and get permissions to grow / water plants. Boom. There you go. All of the systems at your disposal.

Timer exists to continue subs, end of story, regardless how SE trys to show it, they are not the gaming messiah, Yoshida is not jesus, and by god i know he and his team try very hard with this mess of a game and spaghetti code and they succeded a lot, but SE itself i call greedy wtih the subs, mogry store, subs for retainers, etc.

It pays the game becasue SE not gives them money to work with the game, so they are FORCED to rob people of there wallets, i love this game but SE itself is such a scam, i can't wait till Yoshida can start really from scratch without bad influences from SE with his next project.

[Jojoya]

Timer exists to continue subs, end of story, regardless how SE trys to show it, they are not the gaming messiah, Yoshida is not jesus, and by god i know he and his team try very hard with this mess of a game and spaghetti code and they succeded a lot, but SE itself i call greedy wtih the subs, mogry store, subs for retainers, etc.

It pays the game becasue SE not gives them money to work with the game, so they are FORCED to rob people of there wallets, i love this game but SE itself is such a scam, i can't wait till Yoshida can start really from scratch without bad influences from SE with his next project.

Every game company is greedy. They are for-profit companies, not charities. They are out to make money and that means offering things people want to buy.

It's hard to find any multiplayer online game that doesn't sell optional items, content and/or services you have to pay extra to get. Stop making it sound like SE is so horribly different from the rest when it's not.

If you object so much, why do you continue to patron these greedy gaming companies when you could stick to purchasing from game companies where a one time purchase gets you every thing possible for the game? I'm sure there are a few that exist somewhere out there if you take the time to look.

The timer does not exist to force players to continue to subscribe. Even players who are actively subscribed will lose their house if they don't enter it for 45 days. The timer exists so that a limited resource can get in the hands of those who will actively use it if the current owner is not.

We the consumers ultimately decide whether or not to spend money on the product provided. You can be an ignorant consumer and pay money for something you aren't actively using, or you can be an intelligent consumer and pay money for something you are actively using.

If you know something requires continued use to retain possession but you don't want to maintain continued use, why did you buy it in the first place? That's being the ignorant consumer.

If you're only intermittently playing FFXIV when new content gets released and find you want to have long gaps between your subscription periods, you're better off buying a different game to get your housing fix. It's not like FFXIV is the only game that has housing or that we're only allowed to enjoy a single game. You can be playing both.