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[ssunny2008]

#5 "Safe an gain money" is the answer:

- Less servers = less costs

- Rare stuff with a bunch of restrictions
a) keeps players playing,
b) makes sure that they won´t drop their abonnement.

That said, a bunch of players will continue playing until their will is broken or they finally got that house. And while everyone knows how rare this content is, thousands of players will continue paying for their abonnement even if they don´t play especially in the contentlack-phases.

There is no other reason to keep such a system alive, to give a shit about instanced housing and the players enjoyment than money-making. It´s similar to all the other gamebinding-systems out there. You´ve farmed tons of gil, you invested a bunch of time to get the house / to decorate it, so of course you don´t wanna lose it since you might play the game again in 3 months. Those 40 days until your house will get wrecked are wisely chosen aswell.

Imagine how many millions SE would´ve lost without players continueing their sub because of their house, because it would taste really bitter to lose something you worked hard for in any game, and that only because you dropped the game for some months thx to lack of content or just other stuff to play. It´s bs.

All MMORPG`s want to keep their subs and this way is a prime-example to earn free money and to be like "The game is alive, look at our subs!".