Quote Originally Posted by Bladehawk View Post
You have the same ability to get a house as I do a rare mount.
1. Locate empty plot.
2. Click on sign
3a. Win roll and be happy
3b. Lose roll an repeat steps 1 and 2

There is no situation where you can't get a house. You are free to click on the signs all day and night. Housing is no different then ex mounts. Just keep trying until you get it.

As far as house hunting goes I have plenty of experience. Want to buy some?
This is a very poor justification for a very bad in-game system.
Making players wait for hours and hours to get an empty plot of land, is frankly not the same as a mount. At all. In any conceivable way.
Mounts are tools, and everyone can get a chocobo very early into the game. It may not look as fancy, and people can aspire to collect more, but they have the *functionality* of being able to
get around the game quickly. Imagine having to wait outside of plots rolling randomly to get your first mount, spending potentially dozens of hours clicking a sign just so it won't take as long to get around.
That's the situation right now with player housing.