Quote Originally Posted by Melichoir View Post
People have to earn their gil to get houses, and that isnt easy (short of buying it illegally). I grinded out the cash, and then worked out the best places for me to get a house, and went with that. Is there a little luck to that? Sure. But thats just like Savage drops too. And the only time savage becomes "accessible" to everyone is once it falls out of high tier content, or people PAY for clears. Thats it. Youre not going to see everyone in Savage getting to the end, even in 340 gear. Same with anything such as limited Housing. People who can grind and get the cash, will have the opportunity to get the houses. Sucks for you if you cant get the money to get one, or youre not planning ahead enough to acquire one.

I wanted a Shirogane house, didnt get it, but I had back up places and managed to get one there. And I like what I got, and I worked to get it. So being told I was just "Lucky!" and didnt have a plan is kinda messed.
Evidently, I needs repeat myself. A friend and I were up hours before the patch went live, lowered all our setting, closed down every program—even moving discord to our phones to limit any potential hiccups. Furthermore, we not only had planned routes but made macros to immediately spam into the FC chat for easy reference. Our combined gil amount nearly approaches 200M. Suffice it to say we "planned" and "had the money." So what went wrong? The launcher crashed, kicking us both out for several minutes. By the time we were able to get in, both of us had 1,000+ long queues. Meanwhile, a friend of hers who did very little pre-planning except waking up an hour before the patch got in without a hitch. Adding to that still, he plays on PS4 whereas I have a PC capable of playing at 4K.

So when I say sheer dumb luck is the only factor, the above is why. If it were down to just planning and hardware, there is no chance whatsoever someone playing on PS4 would load faster than my PC. So don't presume everyone who couldn't get a house didn't plan accordingly. You got yours because the launcher was nice to you not because you worked harder than I did.