Quote Originally Posted by Jensa View Post
Housing in a game has nothing to do with the war, nor should it. The game is an escape from real life. I would seriously doubt that anyone caught up in the war or any other global tragedy honestly cares about something as trivial as a game and a house in said game.
There were quite a few concerned posters over at r/FFXIV about how they could keep their sub going through all this, because as the community loves to point out, this game means a lot to a lot of people. And players back then were quick to support and advise. But here we are, in a thread that essentially says "well they should've had this settled sooner, give me their house!" Funny how it's only trivial when it's someone else.

Targeting players who are facing these events is misguided at best. The actual problem is Square, and their system designed to keep players subbed or else likely never recover the house they worked for, especially under this lottery. Square is not valuing the players' time and effort, only their sub money. They can make an instanced WoW Garrison with its own inventory, but somehow they can't do instanced houses, nor more free inventory space. There really is no housing system at this point, just a wad of dirty bandaids, and it boils down to their bottom line.

Yet smaller MMOs somehow have done it better.

So the demo timer turns back on, the vultures pick the bones, then what? Does that solve the housing problem? No. The last medium had well over 500 participants. Square limited it now to one house/one FC per account. They have a good idea of how many players want this thing they advertise as a feature, as though anyone can get one.

So why focus on punishing these players who likely would very much like to be back to playing?