Quote Originally Posted by EaMett View Post
It was always pvp based, even before the timer even existed.
I don’t agree that this was the intent. Originally the price was obscenely expensive and there were huge requirements to purchase a house (minimum number of members or some such). SE originally made this with the intent that only FCs with large groups of players could ever afford a house (larges going for as much as 500,000,000 gil for example).

So it wasn’t that it was pvp, it was that they listened to the player base and reduced the prices, then listened to people whine about personal housing..so they opened it up to individuals.

They built a system intended to be X and tried to make it do Y, which it was never originally intended to do.

Moreover, it’s not a pvp thing so much as dumb luck. I’ve 3 houses (1 large, 2 S) and spent maybe 15 minutes total trying to get them. I just got stupidly lucky.