No longer want to play if I can't get a house

[Theodric]

Or you could simply keep expectations at a level a little lower than 'House or bust' if you decide to try and purchase a plot.

I'm lucky enough to own a mansion, so I'm not speaking from the perspective of bias.

The housing system is awful. Making an entire portion of the game which receives active development based on RNG is a very questionable approach. We have other MMO's out there - such as ESO - which provide player housing to every player who desires it. FFXIV should have embraced an instanced housing system long ago because it's the sort of thing a lot of people consider a necessity in this day and age in games that offer the equivalent of the feature.

As time has gone on, it has become harder rather than easier for people to acquire a house. So I can completely understand the desire for people to throw in the towel at this point.

[Stormpeaks]

I'm lucky enough to own a mansion, so I'm not speaking from the perspective of bias.

The housing system is awful. Making an entire portion of the game which receives active development based on RNG is a very questionable approach. We have other MMO's out there - such as ESO - which provide player housing to every player who desires it. FFXIV should have embraced an instanced housing system long ago because it's the sort of thing a lot of people consider a necessity in this day and age in games that offer the equivalent of the feature.

As time has gone on, it has become harder rather than easier for people to acquire a house. So I can completely understand the desire for people to throw in the towel at this point.

Agreed, despite what she says, housing is a massive part of the game for a lot of people, that includes me, so I can feel for people who like it and are simply unable to get a house at all, the system was atrocious already with the placard camping, instant relo was decent-ish, but the lottery system really does take the cake, this is the absolutely worst system there ever was, you get 3 chances at a house monthly, which will probably end up with 100 or more tickets on them, it's basically impossible after the first 2 or 3 waves to get anything at all, and even in those first waves, you are still agaisnt 10 people or more so its all RNG.