Would the housing market be less crazy if the buying system was a silent auction?

[Mistyregions]

Ah yes, let's compare locking content behind hundreds of millions of gil to selling items on the market boards.

Inventing a new arbitrary worse system because people are getting handcramps isn't a solution.
Y'all are just trying to give an alcoholic smokes instead of beer.

Also, apartments aren't appealing.
They lack an outdoor area, a garden, and well.. any freedom besides 1 tiny room.

Housing was never suppose to be expensive, or something people sell.

Right and living in a studio apartment IRL compared to a IRL mansion is also not appealing. Just like in IRL, if you dont have the money, you cant get it, you have section 8 housing for you instead.

I understand the want an desire for a house, but that doesnt mean its owed to you. I feel the housing market should be a FFA. If you really want the house you'll fish up 999mil gil, if you dont, then you obviously didnt want it.

[monk-dps]

Right and living in a studio apartment IRL compared to a IRL mansion is also not appealing. Just like in IRL, if you dont have the money, you cant get it, you have section 8 housing for you instead.

I understand the want an desire for a house, but that doesnt mean its owed to you. I feel the housing market should be a FFA. If you really want the house you'll fish up 999mil gil, if you dont, then you obviously didnt want it.

OR just maybe, maybe SE could like make housing instant so everyone can get a house and we don't have to worry about the 1% flipping all the plots cause it's not just about not having the gil. Unlike real life XIV has a massive botting problem and the system itself is completely flawed. It's a video game and shouldn't be compared to real life at all.

[Zfz]

doesnt mean its owed to you

I think housing took it too far, though. Everything else in the game can be worked towards as long as you're paying the subscription. Using gear as an example, being unable to get the best gear in the game because one is not good enough a raider, is not the same thing as being unable to get the best gear in the game because the game only allows N% of the server population to own that gear.

I feel housing should have 100% availability.

[Hash_Browns]

Right and living in a studio apartment IRL compared to a IRL mansion is also not appealing. Just like in IRL, if you dont have the money, you cant get it, you have section 8 housing for you instead.

I understand the want an desire for a house, but that doesnt mean its owed to you. I feel the housing market should be a FFA. If you really want the house you'll fish up 999mil gil, if you dont, then you obviously didnt want it.

Never really said housing was owed to me. I own 2, and I'm happy with them.
If you really feel that housing should be a FFA, what's wrong with the current system - where it literally is a free for all?