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Good morning, I've never posted on any forum before ever so please bear with me. This will get long.

It seems like these kinds of posts get derailed very quickly and veer off into all these different directions, but mostly boil down to a few things: An argument about whether players are entitled to housing, an argument about house hoarding, an argument about self-control and how devs didn't account for you to do _____ /ad hominem (insulting people), and a sort of rhetorical "who cares" thing. Mostly though, a lot of yelling at each other about whose idea is right.

It's very easy to criticize people you don't agree with and I definitely understand how given the past two years or so of just the general world, we all need to vent off steam that otherwise just isn't getting purged. Everything that's been said so far, for the most part, does really honestly have a point behind it from what I've seen. Even when people say that new players or people without housing aren't entitled to it, that is coming from somewhere I promise you. In general, and I cannot speak for everyone who has said such, when someone is saying you aren't entitled to it it's because they definitely were not. They're someone who had to keep a sharp eye on maintenance downtimes, wait up until 3am when the servers would come up earlier than scheduled after, and do a dead sprint race hoping they made it to the house first. It was never fair and those people were victim to it then. I'm not saying I agree with the mentality that my suffering merits others should have similar suffering, but I can find common ground with that thought process.

I think the point Athame was trying to make when she started this was to focus on the demoralizing effect the system has. It used to be that the time invested was much more minimal and the event itself didn't drag on, it was like a Band-Aid being ripped off. What stood between me, you and a plot was the speed of our loading time, our sprint cooldown, and the pixels of the path we took racing to the target after servers came up after maintenance. It sucked terribly when a new ward opened and you didn't make it to even 1 placard to buy first, but it was over in minutes. You could go about your day. This system we're in now works differently on the brain however, and is hard to see as anything but intentionally malicious, even though I'm sure no one at SE was just like "Let's wreck these people."