Quote Originally Posted by Stormpeaks View Post
"the luxury" lmao, it takes 2 MINUTES to bid, stop with the excuses
One of my friends often takes business trips out to regions of Africa for their work where being able to stay logged into the game for longer than 1 second would be a miracle. If the lottery cycle was any less than 9 days, she wouldn't have gotten her medium when wards 25+ had opened.

2mins can in fact be a luxury. (Also lol, 2 mins. Depending on your computer setup it'd take 2+mins just to get in-game, let alone the time it'd take to scout ward by ward, scoping out plot locations that you'd want to bid on, etc) there's even weeks of my own work where I have to pull the equivalency of 3 people's jobs of work that finding the energy to spend even 1 second gaming and not going to bed the moment I get home is a luxury.
Japan notoriously has very draconian work cultures that make it hard for people to find time to do gaming at all.

Yoshi-P chose 9 days because he understands that a sizeable amount of people aren't terminally online, that plenty have extremely busy & hectic schedules.