Lost my House

[Edax]

I've often wondered why they've never revamped the housing system into something more forgiving for players that are away for longer than 45 days, like instanced housing. SWTOR does it, and with little effort (its EAWare, for god's sake), homes are permanent until deleted by the player, and you can own multiple venues.

You have instanced housing in FFXIV. Like SWTOR, you can own an apartment that will forever be in your possession. No timers.

[LaylaTsarra]

You don't need a house if you can't be bothered to enter it once every 45 days.

I live in housing districts. I enter my houses daily. I have them on multiple servers. There are reasons why people might not log for 45 days. There is no reason why entering it needs to be a pro forma requirement. If you pay a sub you should keep your house. Sorry I don't agree with the system and the demo system is off more than it's on.

[Edax]

I live in housing districts. I enter my houses daily. I have them on multiple servers. There are reasons why people might not log for 45 days. There is no reason why entering it needs to be a pro forma requirement. If you pay a sub you should keep your house. Sorry I don't agree with the system and the demo system is off more than it's on.

I've heard excuses from people couldn't be bothered to enter their homes in 45 days despite playing everyday and it just seems to be to show they don't actually care about housing. They want to own something for the sake of owning it, it's human nature to hoard things.

[Kethic]

As has been said already, the reclamation timer is an unpleasant necessity in light of the houses system they've implemented.

People mention they only maintain their sub to keep their housing, as if that is a drawback to this system in the eyes of SE. Of course it's not.

They are too conceptually and financially invested in the current system to change it, or see any reason to change it.

[Lemuel81]

I wonder when they will actually cave in, and fix the real issue at hand. Timer is fine though, make sure you check your email, they do give a lot of heads up.

[Jojoya]

I wish they didn't remove housing after 45 days. Only reason I stay subbed even though I don't really play much between updates is since I have 2 larges in the same ward. Don't want to lose that!

Why is it so important to you to be owning houses you don't use in a game you don't want to be playing most of the time?

If you didn't cling to those houses that you aren't using, you wouldn't need to maintain your subscription solely so you could enter them once every 45 days.

Your choice, of course, but seems like a bad one if it's making you unhappy.

[spf1200]

Yes remove the 45 day limit so we can go back to having died accounts owne 2-3 houses per ward that no one will ever be able to use

[Dustytome]

I lost my house yesterday, a special spot next to my fc with 6 months of work and fun on putting furniture together. I had an emergency leave and was not able to log to the game. I kinda forgot that I should check my estate within that period before it’s demolished and for some reason I did not revive an email reminder, or it could be accidentally sent to junk - tbh I haven’t checked yet. Either ways it’s too late now.

I didn't see it mentioned, but I skimmed (apologies if someone already mentioned it), but be sure to visit the Resident Caretaker npc to snag 80% of the gil you paid for the plot as well as any furnishings that could be retrieved. You'll have 35 days from demolition to collect from the npc before the system deletes whatever is left on it.

[Sei_Konsetsu]

I always gind these threads interesting... People bash on others for not entering in game homes for 45 days and say things like "you dont deserve it if you dont enter" and so on.

But to be brutally honest, what reason even is there to enter your home? You cant just park yourself in home and run dailies, it kicks you out once you come out of the dungeon, no one is ever in the wards because they are doing things in game. I like the whole neighborhood feel of the wards, but in reality, there really isnt any reason to be at your home.

Apartments are sorta like the mog homes of xi and as far as i know (never looked so correct me on this) they are unlimited and everyone can get one. It would be nice if it had a balcony or something.

Also, i played wildstar, and i do agree that the houseing and land plot system in that game was awesome, but im not sure how that would work in xiv. Your house in that game was a floating astoroid and you could fill your neighborhood with friends asteroids so you could fly to their houses and look about. Pretty sure you couldnt just have rando neighbors but i could be wrong.

[Packetdancer]

Also, i played wildstar, and i do agree that the houseing and land plot system in that game was awesome, but im not sure how that would work in xiv. Your house in that game was a floating astoroid and you could fill your neighborhood with friends asteroids so you could fly to their houses and look about. Pretty sure you couldnt just have rando neighbors but i could be wrong.

Realistically, there's no convenient lore excuse/mechanic to have individual houses that you can shift around and connect up within a neighborhood. And demonstrably, SquareEnix wants neighborhoods.

And I can understand that because at their best, neighborhoods are amazing. When I got my house and started fiddling with the yard that evening, two of my neighbors noticed a house had gone up and came over to say hello (and one even gave me a housewarming gift). I now have both of those neighbors on my friend list, and I've even run content with one of them. I keep an eye on the yards my neighbors put together, and head over to wave hello when I see them around. And that's great—I'm almost certain it's what SquareEnix is aiming for with neighborhoods. I admit, I've now found that from that standpoint I vastly prefer having a neighborhood to the SWTOR or Champions Online or whatever else setup where you have an apartment building and everyone just has their own apartment and you never see your neighbors around.

But it's also godawful because of the limited availability this introduces.

Apartments are great because they stick around forever and there's basically an unlimited number of them, but they're also restrictive; I know people who only have apartments who really want to get into gardening. What options do they have? Hopefully their FC has a house and garden plots no one else is using, but if those plots are in use, what are their options?

I feel like if the apartments had more variety—if you could get large apartments, two-story penthouses, etc.—and if they had a little rooftop space with one garden patch, then they'd be a viable alternative to housing. Yes, there'd still be some differences between houses and apartments—like the ability to design a yard—so there'd still be demand for houses, but people who weren't able to get a house wouldn't be completely left out in the cold on things like gardening.