Automatic Home Demolition is Resuming!!

[Elizabetha]

Lemme tell you about my EW launch experience. I'd get home from my job about 6-6:15 PM, enter the queue to login, wouldn't get logged in till 7:30-8:30 depending, some nights not all. Once in, I couldnt even go into the FC house, I couldnt visit my room, I had NO private area to craft while I waited for my friend to login so we could continue the MSQ since we were still in StB/ShB.

You know why? I've heard from multiple people within the FC that they (and I'm sure many others) had ways of avoiding the AFK timers and were holed up in their private apartments. I have no idea what that method was but it did happen. they'd be at work for hours on end and when they get home they never had to deal with the 2-3 hour queue just to log in. When 7.0 hits its going to be even worse I'm sure what with the updates to the game engine and everyone wanting to know what kind of story is in for us. They simply DONT have the servers to deal with everyone having their own private house since wards are their own instance shared by multiple people.

They were using something to automatically press a key.

I heard of players during the crunch who would use a turbo controller to just jump in place. Go to an inn room and jump. Jump. Jump.

[Xeronia]

And this is exactly why despite not playing the game I kept my sub going, just in case that reactivated. Also as a reminder just a sub alone won't save your house, you have to go inside the house itself to save it.

[VerdeLuck]

Thank god, get those people who unsubbed and are trying to hold onto multiple houses outta here. Pay like the rest of us or stop holding onto the house for someone who would use it.

[Raoabolic]

So SE's XIV profits are dipping and they need some incentive to keep those subs going? I guess we should have bought more mogstation items. :/

[Batbrat]

Finally, jeez. My ward still has a few actives thankfully, but I did notice that every single person who won the lottery since that system started in my ward specifically-none of them wound up using the house. None of them, not one of them. I'm a nosy neighbor I visit mines often, so I was keeping track lol. I don't even think those people logged in again after winning. Not one furnishing, not one outdoors thing. Just a basic bare bones glade exterior and a dead gloomy house. So yes, I'm personally looking forward to it.

Would love to see people actually winning and moving in excitedly using houses again instead of winning them and leaving them to rot for a year simply because they can.

[Restonance]

About time. Now here's hoping they do this every time there's a big problem out there in the world since they set the precedent for that.

[Reinha]

This is good, although it would have been nice to let people take up abandoned houses before the holidays. It's fun to decorate when there are less other things to do in game.

[Avatre]

Hmm...might have a chance to upgrade my FC house from a small sooner than I had though...if RNGesus decides to allow it.

[DamianFatale]

I don't mind the demolition, but I think its too short. It shouldn't be 45 days, it should be three months. Lets be real, but people take breaks from the game during patch cycles. Sometimes people get bored, and sometimes people have shit to do. I'm a traveling DJ, so I don't always have time to play. Sometimes I also just want a break. I shouldn't have to log in just to keep my house. Sure, its just once a month with a tiny bit extra days, but still. It's pretty lame.