Housing gameplay is unhealthy for the players.

[EaMett]

This is a decent post. For once. You don't need to camp, you get less from just occasional spamming but it still works. It's missing something important if you want to reach the devs though. But more on that later.

It's a little bit of a complex mechanic because you want to reward people who spend more time on the mechanic while not locking out those who have lives. And although the current iteration is outright tedious and not fun, it does fill those requirements.
I originally suggested that as a quickfix. The devs keep everything as is but make the unlocks occur every 20mn on the hour (x:00, x:20, x:40). This highly reduces the amount of spamming you need to do and confines it to very specific periods of no more than 2mn. It also gives people 15ish mn windows where they can do something else. This would also still fill the aforementioned requirements.

As for getting the dev's attention. You're addressing what the issue is in a realistic manner. That is to say, within the scope of their initial design (unlike people asking for instanced housing etc.). And you're demonstrating that it's not good (ie: unhealthy gameplay) but you also need to address why it would be beneficial for SE to make changes at all. Changes need to be budgeted and justified after all.
This is a mechanic where you can't just justify it by saying "it's what we want" since the complaint of "there aren't enough houses for everyone" was the point to start with. So making these complaints is akin to justifying the initial design (contre-intuitive, I know)

[EaMett]

the way it was before was capitalism and had the same result, explain how reverting it would help?

Like someone above mentioned. You had to deal with people raising prices and not heavy time requirements and timer shenanigans. Different system with different requirements. Some people prefer the former over the current and vice versa.

[GeminiReed]

the way it was before was capitalism and had the same result, explain how reverting it would help?

Captialism requires regulation otherwise it's the market equivalent of warlordism.

[Doozer]

It's not the game that's unhealthy, you are. If you can't stop yourself from risking your health because you want a virtual house in a video game, that's a you problem.

Yes the housing system has problems, obviously, but the game doesn't make you unhealthy, you already are to begin with. No matter what you're playing.

[Fhaerron]

Then don't camp?

[Katie_Kitty]

Alrighty so yeah I'll be the first one to tell you the current system is bad, like genuinely awful. I think they should make the random timer visible so that everyone knows when to show up and it's a fair competition between everyone who bothers to keep track of when plots go on sale. That would accomplish everything the dev team wanted to do with none of the drawbacks.

With that said, though, you don't *have* to camp the plot to get the house. I remember a while back when I had just moved to a new server I wanted to grab a house so I found a goblet plot that wasn't available yet and simply did this: I played the game by running dungeons and roulettes and such and then occasionally I would check back and spend 10-20 minutes clicking the placard then go back to enjoying the game. Can you guess who managed to win the plot in the end? That's right, it was me, much to the dismay of the career placard campers who witnessed me coming and going and enjoying the game over the past several hours while they suffered together at the plot.

Ultimately, I do think it needs to change, but players need to take responsibility for their own playing habits as well.

[Miminming]

gaming is unhealthy, don't play.

[KadaRemnant]

This kind of thinking about it's your fault or houses are only for fc is more horrible than the rng system. People don't care about anyone and it makes me sick. Large houses should only be for fc and medium fc and personal and small only personal. And people want houses because they love them, it's part of the game and paid for it. It is SE fault for giving a horrible experience just to get a house which anyone are allowed to have. I can't this rng go away but i want they fix the house system too, but rng is more horrible than the housing system we always had.

[Britha]

"It's not the system at fault it's you"
That's quite a ridiculous assertion that I've seen more than once in this thread. The system is bad because if you ever want a house (in a game that constantly updates housing and adds many items for housing in every event and patch) then you *have* to do do what the OP is talking about. His point is that it's unhealthy to force your playerbase to take part in this broken system if they want a house and he's absolutely right. It needs to be changed entirely.

[EaMett]

"It's not the system at fault it's you"
That's quite a ridiculous assertion that I've seen more than once in this thread. The system is bad because if you ever want a house (in a game that constantly updates housing and adds many items for housing in every event and patch) then you *have* to do do what the OP is talking about. His point is that it's unhealthy to force your playerbase to take part in this broken system if they want a house and he's absolutely right. It needs to be changed entirely.

The way the system works you can house hunt for an hour at a time and not grind yourself out of existence. It's not as efficient as sitting the entire duration of a timer but it's only about 10-15% slower.