Housing Roulette was an absolute trash idea.

[Renathras]

As said before that is server based.

Oh, this is absolutely true, though so you know, my server is a high pop one. I'm not sitting on Materia or...Dynamis...? Whatever the new DATAcenter is. I'm on Primal on a pretty full server, all the houses were sold out before the expansion, etc etc. I'm just pointing out a lot of issue comes from people having something available, just not what they want.

Also: Goblet is one of the better cities. Most people I know want to move TO the Goblet. I honestly don't get why people like Mist as it's my least favorite of the OG housing areas. The only one I like less is Ishgard, mostly because I hate snow and ice and cold and it has all three. XD

People can be picky. I never said people couldn't be.

But just like irl, if you're too picky, sometimes you go to bed without supper. That's kind of how life...works. I guess I'm "fortunate" in that I'm the type of person that isn't too terribly particular and am contented easily. I just get slightly annoyed when people say "I can't get a house" but mean "I can't get a LARGE house." There's a pretty big distinction irl between someone saying "I can't get a trailer house on a quarter acre plot" and "I can't get that 27 bedroom mansion I've been eyeing", and I see it the same way in-game. Not EVERYone, but quite a few people, are complaining because they want a specific location or the larger sized houses, not because they bid on a small in an open plot that no one really cared for and lost it. There are a few, but most are not that.

I can't imagine being a person so into housing that not having an in-game house is make or break...but then, despite having a Large, hating it and wanting to give it up for something else (not to give it up outright, ONLY if they can get something else), where said something else is AT LEAST A MEDIUM in another area.

I mean, be picky, by all means...but I can't wrap my brain around that one...

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(...maybe that's why I enjoy the area, reminds me of home lmao)

I think this is me with Gridania. Where I live is a bit less forest and a bit more interface between the piney woods of the South and the grasslands of the prairie that then transitions into desert in the western half of my state here (and south into Mexico, obviously), but since there isn't really a piney woods/grassland housing area (we coastal bluffs in Limsa, desert in Ul'Dah, tropical coast in Kugane, and frozen tundra in Scandinavia Ishgard, so Gridania is "close enough"), and it was my starting city as a CNJ in 2014, so I guess I have a fondness for it.

If I had started as an Arcanist instead, I'd probably have done the same thing just in the Goblet. Reminds me of where I grew up on the border and driving out into west Texas some, so I'd be fine with that as well, honestly. I like both in about equal measure.

...though if they ever made an Azem Steppe housing, I'd be all over that. Well, I WOULD be...except I suspect everyone else would as well, lol Beautiful sweeping open plain and hill country. I've always loved that kind of land, even if I've only seen pictures of Kansas/Nebraska type areas. Mulgore and Nagarnd in WoW were two of my favorite areas for basically that reason as well (well, and Negrand because it just seemed so mystical and mysterious beautiful AS WELL AS aesthetically so.)

Yeah, agreed. Stated this when they first announced the change that it would be worse overall for everyone. Looks like some are realizing the truth. Was placard spamming fun? No but it was better than this.

Respectfully: Hard disagree.

Placard spamming was WAY worse than this.