I know this is exactly what the title says, but I have to vent my frustrations somewhere.

I have been playing since beta, so I know how popular the game can get. But I have been trying on and off for FOUR YEARS to get a house. First it was money. Then it was price gougers. Then it was the random timer added which pretty much ONLY meant I could camp a house on weekends/days off. I have never once seen a house just sitting there waiting to be purchased (otherwise I would have one by now)

I am aware that other servers have empty houses waiting (though outside of Japanese data center servers that's even becoming a rarity on most NA servers). But it's a staggering problem on the more populated social servers and because it's not an issue on the majority of other, less populated servers, it's seen as a "non-issue."

Today I spent 20 hours camping 2 houses - 8 hours on one and 12 on another - spam clicking a sign over and over and over and over only to have someone walk up in the last 30 min each time and snag it. I'm not saying I'm more deserving than anyone else, but for the love of everything good in designs, please find a way so that I can actually PLAY the game while waiting on this abysmal housing monster that pretends to call itself a system. Some kind of lottery or queuing system or SOMETHING that lets me actually play the game while waiting. Or now that the one-house-per-account system is in place, please lower the 26+ hour timer. I don't mind clicking for 2-3 hours. It's 8-12-20+ hours that gets me. All while I can do nothing else.

I don't know if anyone other than frustrated players will read this ranting to the choir, but if anyone from Square does happen to see this, your system is a mess. We know it. We know you know. And at this point I'm afraid 720 houses locked for several months on a server with 20k+ people crammed onto it is going to be like sticking a bucket under a dam break.