First, I wanted to say if you were hoping to get a house and didn't, I am supremely sorry. I know it sucks, and it will honestly just worsen from here. You missed your one big chance to get a plot with manageable odds.

For those saying, stop crying, you wanted this, no, they didn't. Players did not ask for such a low supply of personal housing. They wanted a chance to own a house and didn't want to spend 4-5 hours at a time clicking a sign. Going from the world's worse system to this is NOT better. Your odds are still just as bad going forward.

For personal houses, SE released wards 19-24. Each ward has 60 homes, and on my server, after running around for a couple of hours, about ten people were bidding on a single house, and on some plots, that went up to 30 bids. We will assume a low number of 5 per house for our purpose. That is 360 houses trying to be split between 1800 people bidding. Of course, people are going to be upset. The supply is not there.

Then, to make matters worse, players cannot do anything about it. At least when we're clicking on the house, and you lost, often you could move to click on another one. Now you are forced to sit on your loss for nine days. This is split between having to wait four days to bid again, to which supply is far less going forward, so expect upwards of 50+ bidding on the house. Then you wait five days to find out another winner. With those numbers, you have about 40 attempts to win a bid in a year. Depending on the odds as we advance, that could be winning a 1 in 50 rolls, and it could be worse.

The entire issue is a lack of supply. There is not a system that SE could put in that makes such a low supply feel good to people. It just isn't going to happen. Far more people don't own a house than do own one, and while we don't have numbers on that, I could only assume that is pretty significant considering the sheer amount of bids.

To sum up my Ted talk, there isn't enough supply. Your odds going forward are much worse than they were at release. Yay! Housing got better! /s