Housing Roulette was an absolute trash idea.

[Stormpeaks]

Odds are very dependant on where you are server wise. When placard spam was a thing I rarely saw over 10 people at one in my old server. On my server now, it's either 1 person bidding against me or 0. So, in my case it's better as the lottery.

Also not to mention you don't need to literally avoid eating, drinking or using the bathroom the entire time out of fear of missing the chance to click. If that's not unhealthy to you then idk lol.

Not saying its healthy, I really am not, but it was still better than waiting an entire 9 days per cycle in my opinion, in any case the new worlds and wards seem to have fixed the housing crisis pretty much, so I think at this point it's a non issue, except maybe on Balmung and some select NA worlds, lottery and new wards did their job, and the people that still dont have a house are people that react as "but i want shiro and not goblet !!" when they see a large shiro with 50 bids and a large goblet with 3 bids and decided to bid on the shiro one.

People are too difficult, people want shiro or mist, while ishgard or goblet are almost completely deserted, and yet people complain that there's no houses, it really is self inflicted at this point

Also another thing I mentioned earlier I think in this post, send people their gil via mail, remove this walk of shame to the plot when you've lost it and the person is literally decorating it as you come by to pick up your money, it's really unnecessary and frustrating