Quote Originally Posted by Reinha View Post
This is correct and intended. We used to have a better system where you just walked up to a house in a new ward and bought it, which rewarded players who bothered to login on patch day. The ultra casual players asked for a lottery despite not even knowing the difference between a new ward release and a demolished house and whined about the random timer and placard clicking which would not have applied in Ishgard under the old rules. Those players are being catered to with the 9 day cycle and it's by design, so I doubt there will be any changes.
Ah yes, when people en masse stood in front of a house and wasted 4-16 hours of their life (depending on whether a player knew about primetime, whether a house sold DURING primetime--usually wasn't always--I camped one of those outliers), and most of them lost with a feeling they wasted their time. Truly superior.

Now that we have that out of the way, I do agree that a 7 day period would have been better--if for no other reason that you could far more easily keep track of when housing lottos began and ended. But that has nothing to do with whether I feel it's too long or two short. If we magically started having 10 day weeks, I'd advocate to make it a day longer.