I have been fighting with other players to get instanced housing since housing was a thing.

And no making gil is not hard, but it does take time. And I knew there was a social element to the housing, like I said, I like that part. Many people have come in and sat and chatted with me or had a look around. It's when ppl come in and erp, talk in /s and everything else and the GMs just shrug it off. That is not something you expect to have to deal with or lose one of the only good parts of public housing. That would be like poisoning the cake, but if that happened I could take the baker to court without having to never eat cake again.

And again, there is no rng, the houses always opened at the top of the hour and you just had to look. Like I said, I did it casually and houses were always popping up, except mansions. There is no inner dice roll that determines if they open that devs can adjust to give ppl more options. It is not determined by the game or anything that has been programed, like loot drops. The houses may appear at random since reclaim is a thing, but there is nothing mechanical going on. So it can hardly be compared to dungeon or primal loot. This sort of chance and rng are completely separate things. And reclaim will still work as usual, 45 days so it wont make it worse it will be exactly the same as always, you just cant buy a house from a player anymore because you don't know when it will be open. Which is a mighty fine solution to the housing situation and prevent ppl from buying houses just to resell. So actually it should make getting a house easier. IF you put effort in and watch the wards.

I swear ppl wanna put zero effort into anything but still reap the rewards.