Basically the current system is the same as before, you just don't have to spend your whole life clicking on the placard, system chooses who wins and thats how it is, back then youd have to keep on clicking and when the server decides that the house was available to purchase one lucky person gets the house, I honestly don't see much difference from this to the lottery system.

Except the previous one didn't screw up a lot of people with bugs.

Just making myself clear here that I'm not defending the old system, I'm 100% up for instanced housing.