Horrifyingly bad experience

[Vahlnir]

Man...there's just so many things that are wrong in this response. I'll start with what you said about how apartments "don't go far enough". Here's a tough pill to swallow, but apartments are actually more on the generous side when it comes to housing in this game, so it's kind of annoying seeing the entitlement in this post. Here, in case you don't believe me, I'll break it down:

With apartments, you are given an teleportation aetheryte crystal for free, you must buy it yourself with an estate.
With apartments, you are given a chocobo stable for free, you must buy it yourself with an estate.
You are able to put a summoning bell, orchestrion, gardening pots and many other amenities in an apartment. The only things you are really losing from not having a house is a little more space, decorating the outside, and intercrossing. But, for literally 1/6 of the price of an estate, that's still an incredible deal. Honestly if it was up to me, I wouldve priced apartments at 1,000,000. Getting them at 500,000 is a steal.

Btw, I cannot think of a single MMO I've played that allowed one to customize the outside like FFXIV does, it's definitely not a norm or something one should feel entitled to. It should be seen as a perk, a bonus, so the fact that you're trying to say how it's essentially unfair that apartments can't do it
is silly to me. If you ask me, the best solution for the current housing situation is to just simply increase apartment sizes (but of course at an appropriate price).

I'm entitled...to my opinion. So you are right in that respect. But you don't seem to know what "entitlement" means. I'm far from entitled, or feeling entitled. I have a medium house. I have no stakes in this whatsoever. But even so the housing system we have could use some work in my opinion. And yes, apartments really don't go far enough in providing the same experience as plot owners. Do they get a free stable? Yes. A free aetheryte? Yes. One of those can be obtained for free already though, that being the aetheryte which can be bought with GC seals. But they do NOT have an exterior, and they do not have the same amount of room as regular housing plots, and as a result people cannot place that many furnishings and cannot perform crossbreed gardening. Even smalls are slightly larger because they have a basement. And normal plots, if owned by an FC, have a workshop. Apartments don't allow for that since they cannot be owned by an FC. I do agree with you, however, that increasing the apartment sizes, with a bigger price tag, would help greatly. If all of this makes me "entitled" then I'm fine to be as such all day, every day.

[BehindTheFlowers]

I have tried for a house since it came out. I have done it in various ways. I tried the camping and randome comming back, to check and click, only to see it taken. I tried the sitting around and spam clicking in the hope to get it. Only to get a swollen wrist and no house because I can't do it for hours on end.
I tried it where I came by and "only" stayed for a few hours clicking, for someone else to be lucky.
I also tried to ignore the feature completely but there is so much apeal in a house, for many reasons and much utility. But ignoring it only meant it taken longer, because the system haven't changed or evolved at all. it only stayed the same broken hell of mad clicking and mind numbing clicking.

There is great chance that on a highly populated server, one could win a real life lottery then it is to be the one, that is there at the right time, clicks at th eexact right moment it is released by the hidden timer, among 3-7 other hopeful players that stand around spam clicking.

So I'm petitioning for a different aproch to housing. The problem is not that there is limited number of housing. The issue is that the housing market is to static, there is to little swapping among the houses. Ones bought, many decorate it and then that is it.
So instead of adding more wards and more plots, think about how the excisiting unused housing mass either see some use, so the wards can start to be more alive, or have those that just horded a house because they can and then never use it, give it up for others to get a chance.
That or kill the whole concept all together. I rather have it all demolished and the time spend from teh developers on making more game content that I then can sit and play. Then have to try my luck with the housing roulette. In a matter of fact it might as well just have been a damn roulette, where you buy a lottery ticket and try to win a house. One caan do some raids, gather materials, craft or roleplay and utilize the game to what its made for, passing time and enjoying content, not stand around and click a sign.