The automatic housing demolition timer for Worlds in the European Data Center, which was halted temporarily in November 2024, will resume with the release of Patch 7.3 scheduled for early August 2025.
Login and go to your houses if you’re wanting to keep them to avoid demolition.
I did some quick math (read: asked ChatGPT) and there are 9000 plots per world and 90 worlds. Thats 810k plots. Assuming $13/month for entry is the standard and all plots are taken by individuals (they aren’t) that’s $10,530,00/month in just homeowners. I know these numbers are largely useless but it’s gotta be close-ish. And that’s nuts.
There’s some variance there (for example on Materia they haven’t opened wards 25-30 yet), not all plots are sold, and FC housing isn’t quite as stringent since as long as at least one person in the FC enters the house they keep it, but still crazy numbers regardless. You can see why they’re disincentivised to fix it.
Yeah, numbers are likely way off but I’m sure it’s the same reason they’re not ever going to crack down on mods. At any given time I’m seeing 10k+ accounts online in Mare and I don’t play during peak times. That’d be a huge hit if they banned ONLY 10-20k accounts.