How do people play for 3 years without a house?

[urban]

Been playing this game since beta.. I still dont have a plot, house, fc room. i sleep at the INN. Its already decorated , hell my chocobo has a fc stable.. nuff'said

[Zephera]

I'm so busy with other things in this game I don't think I'd have time to decorate and appreciate a personal house honestly. An FC house supplies my needs with basic materials, gardening and airships. A personal house would be nice in the long run but as long as I don't require it, I don't feel a need to fight to buy one.

[Wissp]

I have been playing for about a year now and have a small house on Faerie. Funny thing is I really did not care about housing at all. My best friend in the game needed quick cash to have enough for a medium house, so she asked me if I wanted to buy it off her. I said yes to help her out and suddenly I am now a house owner. It's in a really nice place too with board, crystal and bell right in front of it. I really have not done too much with it since I am not into crafting, and I could have even have upgraded it to a medium if I had wanted to with this last housing run, but I am fine with it being small. And it does look kind of cute with its pink decorations.

I think if you are not on a heavily populated server and really make the effort, it isn't THAT hard to get one of these things. Make friends, get to know people, network. Not everyone who has a house wants to keep it forever and you just might get lucky and find someone willing to let one go for a decent price.

[MizArai]

Let's say I DID take an oppertunity to buy a house, then the person that couldn't take that oppertunity (because I did) would be left wanting a house, it doesn't change anything, in the end someone is left homeless.

It's easy to say "you just have to prioritize housing" but if there are more people trying their best to get a house than there are plots in existence... what can you (as a player and/or dev) do to get it, and not have someone that does want a house left homeless?

Let me start off by saying, the housing system in this game is awful. With that in mind, SE is just now getting close to the threshold for the low pop servers where every character and FC that want a house might be able to have one. However, the topic was how can someone play for three years and not have a house if they had wanted one. Not everyone wants a house. Examples A and B below.

Been playing this game since beta.. I still dont have a plot, house, fc room. i sleep at the INN. Its already decorated , hell my chocobo has a fc stable.. nuff'said

I'm so busy with other things in this game I don't think I'd have time to decorate and appreciate a personal house honestly. An FC house supplies my needs with basic materials, gardening and airships. A personal house would be nice in the long run but as long as I don't require it, I don't feel a need to fight to buy one.

In 3 years of playing this game there would have been countless opportunities via demolitions, housing expansions, transferring to a less populated server (something I considered at one point so I could have gotten a Mist large sooner since there were open ones on low pop servers back when I was thinking about it), or even paying someone to relinquish their house (some players are reasonable and really only want what they put in it). If in less than 2 years I can purchase 8 homes on a semi-high population server (no, I don't own 8 homes, I have purchased that many, aka I've moved a lot and bought a few FC houses while at it), then someone who has been playing for 3 years should have been able to get 1 (if they really wanted it).

[KayRadley]

Having an apartment kinda helps.

[WilhelmWhite]

So how do people endure 3 years without a house suddenly "need" one right meow?

Lol "endure"? You make it sound as if having a house is just as necessary as having good gear, which it is not. I have an FC room that I am perfectly happy with. Would it be nice to have a house? Sure, I guess. But I'm certainly not going to break my back and go through all the drama that you all go through for it. Way too overrated, and not worth it imo.

[Tridus]

On a high pop server, the demand vastly outstrips supply. That means lots of people will never get a house, because that's how math works.

[Ruenis]

I managed to acquire 4 small houses in tonberry.
First was in lavender beds, acquired through secondary market, got auto demolished due to some technical error that makes me unable to login for three months.
The second one was in goblet (my fave). The third and fourth one was in shirogane through relocation. Maybe I'll move to the mist once I got the budget.

[hynaku]

Not sure since I have had a house since they first came out. If didn't have one I just fix up my private fc room or my apartment room. I have never own more than one house always have all my alts share it. Never seen any point owning more than one house per server.

[Tlamila]

What puzzles me is how nobody cares about apartments. True, they have no garden and ofc they're smaller, but still something to decorate or to put a crafting station/npcs in. I'm personally happy with one, also knowing it's never gonna be demolished if I can't play for a bit.
I did the Mansion war in Aion, the plots war in Archeage, now I don't want such stress anymore, personally.