Automatic Home Demolition is Resuming!!

[Amarande]

At the end of the day you can say "well Yoshi P says to unsub and come back" but see there is a catch. You stop playing you forgo all rights therefore if you decide to quit or go away for a long time

Again, the problem is less this of itself as the fact that the game is bad at providing a smooth enough interest curve.

In other words, if you need to enter your house every 45 days, the game really needs to encourage you to actually play that often. Otherwise, a lot of players are in fact logging in just to refresh their housing timer, and paying what's basically at that point nothing more than a rent on their ingame house.

Unfortunately, as I've mentioned before, the game does not do this. Most new content is short enough that you will easily consume it within a few hours, and most that is not so puts massive practical pressure to keep up with the community, so that either way, the present state of affairs heavily encourages you to consume every content drop right away (even though Yoshida ostensibly wants you to pace yourself) and therefore have these months-long periods where there is little or nothing to do.

Maybe a middle ground would be for demolition timers to simply not tick as long as the owner maintains an active paid subscription, doing away with the ritual of physically logging in to reset the timer? It seems rational that if you're still paying for the service, you care enough that you deserve to keep your house (do you lose your home IRL if you take a long vacation abroad but still pay the rent?). It also might mean that a lot of the blanket timer pauses could be eliminated (because while the situation might be bad enough a lot of people can't game, I'd suspect in most of these cases people at least do have some means of being able to get to Mog Station to pay sub, or have multi-month subs or large enough Crysta deposits).

[Heroman3003]

Again, the problem is less this of itself as the fact that the game is bad at providing a smooth enough interest curve.

In other words, if you need to enter your house every 45 days, the game really needs to encourage you to actually play that often. Otherwise, a lot of players are in fact logging in just to refresh their housing timer, and paying what's basically at that point nothing more than a rent on their ingame house.

Unfortunately, as I've mentioned before, the game does not do this. Most new content is short enough that you will easily consume it within a few hours, and most that is not so puts massive practical pressure to keep up with the community, so that either way, the present state of affairs heavily encourages you to consume every content drop right away (even though Yoshida ostensibly wants you to pace yourself) and therefore have these months-long periods where there is little or nothing to do.

Maybe a middle ground would be for demolition timers to simply not tick as long as the owner maintains an active paid subscription, doing away with the ritual of physically logging in to reset the timer? It seems rational that if you're still paying for the service, you care enough that you deserve to keep your house (do you lose your home IRL if you take a long vacation abroad but still pay the rent?). It also might mean that a lot of the blanket timer pauses could be eliminated (because while the situation might be bad enough a lot of people can't game, I'd suspect in most of these cases people at least do have some means of being able to get to Mog Station to pay sub, or have multi-month subs or large enough Crysta deposits).

The answer to that is simple. Its not the game's failure to provide interest. It's people's failure to realize that if the only reason they log in is to refresh the house, they aren't actually using it and they should relinquish it at that point. Ironically enough, if more people did that, a lot of spaces in housing districts would start freeing up and have more flow through them. But that would never happen, because people are too greedy over the limited housing resource and are willing to pay subscription on game they dont play to keep ownership of content they don't use.