Longer patch cycles should mean longer housing demolition timers

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houses dont really have much purpose.. you decorate them and then you just forget about it. The only reason to have a house is submarines.. which is for making gil, which ist mostly unnecessary aswell

[Keumjo]

Just let me airlift my house to my island sanctuary, than anyone is welcome to my plot.

[ZephyrMenodora]

I agree. It should be extended at least as long as their content releases.

houses dont really have much purpose.. you decorate them and then you just forget about it. The only reason to have a house is submarines.. which is for making gil, which ist mostly unnecessary aswell

While mechanically this is true, I think roleplayers or even people who don't RP but get really into immersion and expressing their character feel that their home is very important to them.

I still think the housing system in XIV is terrible, as someone who just enjoys housing in MMOs. I remember being laid off after buying my first home in XIV and I just had to pause playing the game as paying rent was more important at the time. I lost my house and also all my furniture also expired, so I lost that too. I was so angry I almost never came back to this game.

People put a lot of time and resources into their homes, and if XIV is now a game that they think people should play 1 month every content patch, the homes should be protected at least for the duration of their content patches.

[UkcsAlias]

houses dont really have much purpose.. you decorate them and then you just forget about it. The only reason to have a house is submarines.. which is for making gil, which ist mostly unnecessary aswell

In a game that has glam as a very big portion, housing does add to that. It can be customized a lot more. Outside of that it barely has any use, and this is what instanced housing isnt realy going to fix either. It at most will help some RP players, but most of them wont care.

[PharisHanasaki]

Yes, let it go. Even more so if you didn't even bother decorating it, you just ruin the neighborhood :P
I currently have a neighbor right next to our FC house that put a single potted tree outside and called it a day.
What's the point of even getting/keeping a house if you're not going to use it? Get an apartment, be free.

On topic: I do believe we require an extension for the demolition timer. we have to sub every 6 weeks to not lose it, and the patches are now 16 weeks apart instead of 12.
An 8-week timer seems more reasonable.

[Avoidy]

It'd be cool if they did this, but there's literally no reason for them to. It'd only cost them money since people would predictably stop playing until the next update.
Now take their real practices and compare them to what Yoshida says about taking breaks until the next update. When you do that, it becomes easy to understand that Yoshi just says things that sound nice, and then the company in charge of the game does the opposite.

[Divinemights]

I loathe that SE holds many players subscription hostage; but if we're going to have a demolition timer isn't it reasonable to tie it to the release schedule of patches?

ie: if the major patch cycle is, on average, releasing every 16 weeks then the demolition timer should be at 16 weeks time.

Housing can be a very large time investment for many players. To have such a short demolition timer is nothing more than an insanely greedy ploy by SE to keep players subscribed when they aren't playing.

If SE believes so heavily in their product and content pipeline they should put their money with their mouth is and extended the standard demolition timer.

(or make instanced housing . . . or make apartments expandable on the inside to be the size of houses . . . or make housing so plentiful that it's not a problem to get a house . . .)

Once again, it is community want the demolition timer to recycle empty house, not SE
Why would they want to pipeline their development cycle with demolition timer
There are more players without housing plot than housing owner to begin with

If you want to take break, go take break, it is 45 business days and all you need to enter house once, not difficult
Subscription to this game is as much as you order a drink from Starbuck or Bubble tea with a snack, get over with it

[Syln]

Lost my house last week and took advantage of the free login campaign to do the Halloween event today.

Event duration : roughly 10 min.
Buying an apartment, recreating a decent room and managing all of the furniture that were temporary stored due to the house demolition : around 6 hours.

So here's my advice, if you want content and own a house : Let it go and you'll have plenty of things to do :3

For someone who owned a property since housing is a thing in this game it felt weird to see the empty spot instead of my house when i logged in, but now i feel kind of free for not having to worry about losing it anymore.

Let it go, let it go~