Horrifyingly bad experience

[Penthea]

Gotta stop you right there. I wanna focus on what you said about "paying for access to all the content in the game." Some of you guys really, really need to stop throwing around the misconception that paying a sub entitles to you to every single piece of content in the game. The ONLY thing paying a sub guarantees you is access/entrance to the game. That is it. I'm not trying to say you don't deserve a house/apt or anything like that, everybody should have a place to call theirs, but please stop trying to use the fact that you pay a sub as reasoning for why you should be guaranteed one. That's not how it works.

And let me point you to the fact that I said housing is the only content in the game in which you can meet all the prerequisites to engage in the content but still somehow be unable to do it due to no fault of your own.

Very easy to make me look like I'm an entitled player when you outright intentionally misinterpret my whole post. Here I highlighted that bit for you in case you genuinely missed that part:

This is an exceptionally unfair thing to say. You almost make it sound like had they enough sense to come earlier then they would have a house.

Housing is the only content in the game in which you can meet all the prerequisites to engage in it but you still cannot participate because there is limited supply. In fact such a system is exceptionally rare these days in gaming.

No one should be told they aren't allowed to complain about it when they have no reason to know about it unless they actually play the game (referring to "if they came to FFXIV earlier") and when they are literally paying for access to all the content in the game but they are roadblocked by bad design, not their own shortcomings.

This idea that players are not allowed to complain simply because of when they began playing or wanting to get a house is downright awful.

Imagine if savage raiding was the same. That you could have the required job lvl and ilvl, maybe even have a full team with you as well, but be unable to participate because there's only a tiny amount of instances in the game. Or what if instead it was that bosses dropped loot only a limited amount of times per server, so you could kill the boss but get absolutely nothing simply because of when you killed it. This is the sort of comparison that I am making. That is not saying "a sub entitles me to a house!" that is saying "a sub entitles me to engage in content whose prerequisites I have fulfilled".

Again I point out: housing is the only content in which you can prepare for it in every way the game demands, and still be unable to engage in it.