Quote Originally Posted by TheForce View Post
Nobody's forcing you to do anything. RNG is RNG. If you're not a fan of camping out, then just check back periodically throughout the day. Am I fond of this buying system? No. But this whole "I'm being forced to sit at a house for hours and hours no fair! DX" complaint needs to stop, it's simply not true.
You are right in that no one is forcing me (or anyone) to buy a house in the game. The premise must not have been clear - IF you want a house, which is a feature of the game that yields non-critical benefits to the game.
My wife and I enjoy playing the game and want to get a house in it. Since getting a house is the goal - we have two options as the system exists - camp out spamming the placard (because if we don't someone else does and we don't get a house, which is the goal) OR use less ethical methods like finding a seller on reddit, joining their FC, paying them to leave the FC, and making the new FC and house our own. Pretty sure that is the kind of behavior SE is trying to discourage with the hidden timer.
The complaint is 100% valid. Maybe getting gear is your goal. If you had to spam click the entrance to the dungeon in hopes that you'll get one of the rare party openings (which opens on a random timer so getting there early doesn't guarantee you a spot), you'd be blowing up the forums too. I know the analogy falls apart in that dungeons are core to the gameplay where housing is not, but to some, housing is an important part the game. Clearly this is the case or we wouldn't have people sitting in front of the placards for hours on end camping a house. I see them at every house I attempt to get.

Simply replying to the effect of "stop whining" doesn't do anything to improve the state of housing purchases. SE needs to continue to see people being angry with their broken house buying system or they will not have an incentive to fix it. That is how we provide feedback. If you don't think it's a priority, don't click on these kinds of forum posts.

To the saying "Don't provide problems, provide solutions": Maybe make the license to a plot a rare drop in a specific dungeon, earn-able through some kind of quest, or reputation with the associated city. There are plenty of other ways to do it to make it both prestigious but still feel like a reasonable system. At least farming a dungeon can be fun, unlike standing at a placard...