Ishgard Housing No Lottery For Wards

[Viedyn]

I say this as someone who has only ever tried to purchase two houses (one personal one fc) and succeeded both times because my ADHD superpower is clicking buttons quickly and accurately, apparently -

The first house I beat 7 bots, the second house I beat almost 20. It is RIDICULOUS and DISGUSTING how many people are botting in an attempt to purchase housing, leaving honest players to sit in the same position for HOURS on end. It is unhealthy and dangerous for people to sit so long without getting up. I sat for 9 hours on the first house and had to ice my hand for several hours afterwards to get full motion back. I couldn't even type to thank the people who congratulated me when I won because I was in so much pain. There needs to be a lottery system and it needs to apply to all housing. I'm actually disappointed they would even consider keeping a first-come-first-serve system like what we have now.

Being fast and sitting for hours right now doesn't even guarantee you a house because it isn't about who clicks fastest it's about who clicks at the EXACT TIME the server makes the house available. I would rather be able to submit an entry and go play the game and live my life and not worry about it. It's the same odds as if I was there clicking anyway. I have no desire to inflict the risk of health issues on any more people.

Edit: and they explained on the livestream why they don't want to start with open/available FCFS lots, it's going to create a lot of congestion and log in issues on popular servers. Unless they can prove that we're not going to have an endwalker login queue extreme repeat, I wouldn't support it. If they can prove only a few hundred people intend to run for the first houses, then I'll support it. I just hate the FCFS timer system.