Time to Restart Housing Demolition

[Solarra]

Maybe we should be asking for Square to give some incentive to players to relinquish houses they are not using, first.
A lot of people buy houses and lose interest in them over time or they might have other more personal reasons for wanting to let a house go. If they own a medium or a large house, relinquishing means losing a big chunk of gil. I see a lot of houses on my server that don't seem to be used, maybe people are simply taking a break while auto-demolition is suspended, but if some of those houses could be released onto the market, it might help ease the present situation a little.

There are so many things happening in the world right now that starting auto-demoliton seems wrong to me. I'm sure most people who cannot play probably do have more important things to worry about, but I don't think that justifies taking things away from them in-game and making a bad situation even worse.

[VerdeLuck]

Maybe we should be asking for Square to give some incentive to players to relinquish houses they are not using, first.
A lot of people buy houses and lose interest in them over time or they might have other more personal reasons for wanting to let a house go. If they own a medium or a large house, relinquishing means losing a big chunk of gil. I see a lot of houses on my server that don't seem to be used, maybe people are simply taking a break while auto-demolition is suspended, but if some of those houses could be released onto the market, it might help ease the present situation a little.

You just described the auto-demolition feature. People who are done with their house, unsub, or don't use it for weeks in a row give up their house and it goes back on the market for someone else to enjoy. There's no exclusive reward needed to entice people, just that they go back to their house every now and then and use it. If you want to keep your house then you can, just stay subscribed, and use your house every couple weeks and you can keep it as long as you want. If you can't be bothered to log in and enter your house for multiple weeks in a row are you really using it?

[Battler-Ushiromiya]

What about those Ukrainian citizens that don't have the advantages that a Zepla has? What about other EU residents that have had their livelihoods removed or endangered because of industry and supply line disruptions caused by the war? Do we not care about them

I don't care about them on the NA server, correct. Turn on auto-demo.

They can keep it off on EU servers, but I literally don't care whatsoever just because it's a western country getting invaded.

[BananaSnap]

Real life conflicts don't seem to register so lets not get too many chocobo feathers stuffing that ego and inflating some crazy ideas so the "dream" plots can become available but I doubt you'll be ready to bid on them. I'll take a wild guess that 80% of the Eorzea is ready for SUCH DESTRUCTION. LOL right.

[Batbrat]

Turn housing demolition back on. It's time.

And if the decision has changed, tell everyone upfront and honestly.
Tell us "housing demolition will never come back" so that people who are playing in hopes of getting a house can move onto a different game that offers what SE can no longer offer them.

Furthermore, the people who lost their houses to demolition in the past should be able to get their houses back too, booting out whoever got it when the lost it. Because fair is fair, and their emergencies are just as important as anyone else's emergency. Thank you!

[Darthgummibear]

This entire conversation would be moot if we had instanced housing instead of this stupid ward system.