Quote Originally Posted by alpacaurbags View Post
all houses that were not on a timer were gone.
This statement is a lot clearer now that you've said what you mean, rather than using hyperbole and saying 'no houses were open' when a few hundred were.

Yes, the houses not on timers all sold out by 6:30-7am eastern. If you got on at 8, you were less motivated than the ~400 or so first-time-buyers that did get to skip their camp. You were still free to claim the remaining ~300 houses that were on timers any time between 4pm eastern on patch day and 4am on 10/14.

Have you used the official forums previously? I made a post on these forums and also on reddit/FF14 cautioning players that the new houses would sell out in 20-40 minutes and that anyone who wanted to skip the timer would need to be logging in the second servers went live, with a plan as to where to run. At least now you know for next time, you can't wake up 2 hours after servers go live and hope to claim one of the no-timer houses.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...me_buyers_and/ here it is for reference. There are some general tips for camping at the bottom, and the tips at the top should come in handy next ward release.