Positivity about housing!

[Kyoraki]

Let me ask you this. Say you got a promotion at your current job but your best friend lost theirs on the same day. Would you celebrate in front of them on that very day and insist going out to dinner? Probably not.

I would assume most people would. I don't know if things have changed in today's participation trophy society, but it's usually common courtesy to suck in whatever shitty thing that has happened to you and be happy for someone else instead of being a downer. To use an example of my own, say your SO announced they wanted a divorce on the same day as your brother's wedding. Would you moan about how 'tone deaf' they are, or suck it in and get on with it?

[Oscura]

Let me ask you this. Say you got a promotion at your current job but your best friend lost theirs on the same day. Would you celebrate in front of them on that very day and insist going out to dinner? Probably not.

No one is saying people who got lucky need to be bleeding hearts but creating a "positivity" on the day most people were screwed out of that same feature in some way or another is remarkably tone deaf. This isn't even the OP commenting on an existing thread saying they got lucky and are happy about it. They created a thread to spotlight themselves and draw attention. I hearken back to the example above.

yeah, there is a difference in your metaphor. The OP is not your friend, he has no social obligation towards you.

Also, grow up. Learn to be happy for other people.

I have to agree with the quoted reply.

There's also a flaw with your metaphor/analogy, in that the person is not only someone who is my best friend, but simultaneously their situation has nothing to do with me. In the case of housing, someone getting a house means that someone else cannot get one. In the example you gave, I would have gotten promoted for something unrelated to my friend's firing, especially if we had completely different places of work.

Also there is the fact that the OP was not directly addressing you as a person, but the forums as a whole. Yet people still got incredibly personal as if they themselves had personally spoken to, offended that the OP would even say anything to them after they had been screwed by housing. Pot calling the kettle black, it just shows how selfish a lot of posters are. There is simply a lot of pretenders acting as if they care about how others feel but in reality it just reeks terribly of, "I'm bitter because I specifically did not get a house."

[Lunafreya]

I read positivity but you just seem to be laughing at others. Nice troll.

[KageTokage]

I suppose I should feel happy that I even have a house period.

I snagged a small Goblet plot about three months ago that got demolished in the dead of the morning, so I hardly had any competition for it (Someone who already had a house shouted about it in Limsa). It also has a marketboard and summoning bell right in front of it, so that's a plus, too.

[Janhyua]

I was able to get my own medium house too completed with a sakura theme training ground

My life as a samurai is completed

[Aomine1992]

Some of you people are ridiculous, white knighting this foolishness some people had to wait years for.....yes be happy you got a house but keep it to yourself some people really got screwd by something they had no control over.

If people are mad about this post they have every absolute right...Noone wants to hear all that bragging trying to make themselves and SE feel good about something they royalty absurdly screwed up

At this point SE could really use a reset button on this fiasco that they alone have created because there was no equal opportunity there was the server may or may not work, probability bs....But this patch will hurt them where it hurts I've seen many ppl quit the game over this already

[Zarabeth]

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Congratulations on getting your plot! It's really nice to see a positive post on these forums as they are so rare! Don't mind all the sour grapes posts, be happy! I didn't get to upgrade to a bigger home for my FC but it's still nice to see someone who is happy!

[Aniya_Estlihn]

If people are mad about this post they have every absolute right

Honestly, no. That's not how society works. If I got laid off one day and that same day a friend got a promotion and told me about it I'd suck it up and go celebrate with them, because that's the right thing to do. Everyone directing their anger, frustration and childish tantrums towards people who were able to get a house is not only foolish, but also highly immature and lacking of any sense of humility or self restraint.

It shows our community in an extremely negative light.

Yes, people can be excited and talk about the houses they got, they have every right. Yes, those who didn't get one have every right to be upset that they weren't able to, but not at each other.

However, what is going on, has been going on, and quite frankly needs to stop here, in game and on Reddit is the habit of directing that anger and frustration towards other players. It is wholly unfair and simply childish, and the most I want to say to those who think they are permitted to act that way towards others is to grow up—We know whose fault this really is, and it most certainly isn't the people playing the game with you.

[Lenaru]

I cant believe how most ppl decide that since they didn't get the house they believe they can just be jerks and take completly personal a post they could very well avoid if they feeling down/angry. In rl, if sh-t happens and some random ppl have a good day, you arent going to yell at them and ask them to shut up and feel ashamed for it. It's not like OP posting his joy in a thread about the problems of housing (which actually would be rude) but making one asking the story to ppl how they get a house.

[Wyvernheart]

Hey guys. When i logged to get me a place i was so excited. I went straight to Kugane bit sadly i found the breach front sold up. But there were still many that were for sell. Anyways i hoped on over to plot 5 and i got the crib i always wanted! Praise the Most High. Love you God.