Just Another Housing Complaint

[Fybrile]

This.
I’m sorry OP but I think the same. When I started in march 2016 and discovered that you can have a house on the game, my FC mates told me “forget it”, all are taken”.
I didn’t gave up, upped my gatherers and crafters and finally manages to grab a house in may 2017.
My husband is playing since 2014 and told me that back then, it was much easier to have a house because there often were empty plots (I don’t see your server since I’m on mobile, but still…). Plus, crafting was a very much easier to make gils than is it now.
So I really don’t understand how you couldn’t make the money to afford even a small.

Thanks for taking the time to read my complaint.

I appreciate that you agree that it's my own fault that I don't have a house, but I have to say that opinion is wrong.

The flaw in your logic is that you then go on to describe your own experience as evidence and assume that my experience should be the same. It was not. Regardless of you and your husband's dedication and stick-to-it-tiveness, the primary, deciding factor that got you your houses was just blind luck - you were at the right place, at the right time to right-click a sign at the exact moment all the other bots and players weren't trying to click it. You got lucky. Then, you turned around, pulled up the ladder behind you, hopped on the forums and told people that if they just wasted more of their time they would be able to get to experience a basic part of the game. It's akin to people who think tuition shouldn't be free because they paid tuition. It's just a mentality of paying misery forward, which I disagree with.

In a system based on luck, no amount of rolling up your sleeves and exerting just a bit more effort is going to guarantee you win. For all you know, I have spent twice or thrice as much time as you clicking on signs. That doesn't guarantee me a house. The moral of the story is you should appreciate that you simply got lucky, avoid blaming players who have not, and really take an honest, objective look at the problem. If you did, I'm certain you would also see your position is wrong.

If SE can give us each our own island, something that each and every character will be entitled to, something that appears to be far more server-intensive than housing, without any of this misery, than there's no defense for the current suffering that is the player housing system.