Reactivate The Housing Demolition Timer

[Jojoya]

How about instead they leave it off forever and stop holding people with a house hostage? :3

Yoshi always says; "it's fine to unsub guys!".
I've spend years of my lifeblood getting and decorating a house.

And he wants me to unsub and literally condemn it?

Yeah, no.

Am sure if they really wanted - by they I mean the big CEO decision makers, housing could've been well supplied for a while now.

Remember when they had to stop selling the game?

Feels more and more like SE is spending the least amount they can to get the most out of it. Much to the detriment of the playerbase.

That's what it feels like to me atleast.

And hey, maybe they're gonna do everything I want tomorrow - who knows.

Hope dies last but it eventually does.

Sub a month. Enter the house on the first day and last day of the subscription period to reset the demo timer.

Unsub 6 weeks.

Sub another month. Repeat entering to reset.

Unsub another 6 weeks.

And so on. If you get lucky, a free log in campaign will occur in the last 2 weeks of your unsub period and you'll be able to stay unsubbed an additional 6 weeks by logging in to enter your house.

You have been able to unsub - but you're also able to retain your house.

If you're playing the game so little you want to be unsubbed most of the time, why bother getting a house? Is it really worth paying a subscription just to keep something you aren't using? Especially when you can get an apartment that you likewise won't be using but at least it's cheaper and won't demo?

Instead of asking for auto-demolition to resume perhaps it would be better to ask for the relinquish option to provide the same refund or a way to manually resume the demolition timer on a per-plot basis.

While one of the old reasons for not offering a full refund no longer apply (resellers can no longer benefit by relinquishing to sell), it would reduce housing's effectiveness as a gil sink if the gil can be reclaimed at a later date.

It's also going to be hard to get players to relinquish plots when it will be very difficult to get another house if they later decide they want a house after all. Most will go ahead and keep it.

You'd only see players relinquishing if they're transferring home worlds or quitting the game for a long period of time. Neither of those situations would increase supply as the vacancy would occur regardless. It just makes that supply available slightly sooner.

[GeminiReed]

..., it would reduce housing's effectiveness as a gil sink if the gil can be reclaimed at a later date.

It's only a partial refund -- 80% -- so some gil is sacrificed. One time purchases are awful currency sinks. If they were all that effective we would have seen several more of those gaudy golden mount reskins by now. FF:XIV housing is a particularly bad sink because of scarcity and the account limitations placed on it. Not to mention that auto-demo's been paused more than it hasn't so new purchases have been incredibly rare.

It's also going to be hard to get players to relinquish plots when it will be very difficult to get another house if they later decide they want a house after all. Most will go ahead and keep it. ... It just makes that supply available slightly sooner.

In case you missed it the topic is about an FC that migrated to another DC with the exception of the caretaker waiting for auto-demo to kick in. It is not about getting more houses into circulation. If that's all this was I wouldn't have bothered with it.

There are legitimate reasons people no longer want to be tied to housing. If auto-demolition is going to remain on hold then some QoL changes might be in order.

[Jojoya]

There are legitimate reasons people no longer want to be tied to housing. If auto-demolition is going to remain on hold then some QoL changes might be in order.

If someone truly does not want to be tied to housing there's nothing to stop them from removing all furnishings, dismantling the Estate Hall and relinquishing the plot.

Is it really worth putting things on hold for the sake of getting a gil refund?

What we pay when we purchase a plot isn't a security deposit. We're paying to be able to use the plot. We shouldn't feel entitled to a refund when we've used it.

I still believe that's where SE is making a mistake since they're making house ownership a limited resource system- not requiring a meaningful gil investment to retain a house. If players had to pay more to keep a house, fewer would demand one.

[Big_Bap]

If players had to pay more to keep a house, fewer would demand one.

Only took you 4 years, wow! Did you stop drinking the koolaid or something?

[Lihtleita]

If players had to pay more to keep a house, fewer would demand one.

bud thats what your monthly sub is

[Jojoya]

bud thats what your monthly sub is

No, the monthly sub is for access to the game servers.

If you're going to use that line of thinking, then nothing in this game should have a gil cost. We should get everything for free because we pay a sub.