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[HomelessSuncat]

2 small personal plots for sale in shiragane, balmung
no apparetments open
instanced housing when?
i thought my chances were bad last lotto, rolling against 37 other people for a small..

[SeiyaSoiya]

lottery has always been a tax on stupid people, don't fall for it, don't support it

[UkcsAlias]

lottery has always been a tax on stupid people, don't fall for it, don't support it

People who work irl, to obtain cash to own a house irl are stupid because they cant placard click all day long? For them the lottery still gave them better chances, and its a good reason to support its existence.

Not just that, if i could pay some irl money to obtain a house in ffxiv (where SE sells them themselve instead of botters), i might just do that. 2h of work to buy it that way, instead of placard clicking for 2h is to me already a major improvement on time efficiency. This money on that could potentialy even be used to improve housing in general, which on that is another benefit.

Placard clicking is just stupid. Its a major time waste unless you cannot spend that time any other way. Sure, you might have more chances after 10h, but thats still 10h wasted that you could actualy enjoy doing something else. I will have fun even without a house (its still just a side aspect). Its not like winning a house suddenly grants even more fun time in the game. There are plenty of other games so even when done in FF, i can just play something else.

[Kailani]

lottery has always been a tax on stupid people, don't fall for it, don't support it

Not in FFXIV. You are right IRL, but the housing lottery refunds your gil if you lose. Even the cactpots are guaranteed to give you something. This lottery system is better than giving bots an advantage for houses, but the basic problem is a lack of housing, not the lottery system.

[Breakbeat]

lottery has always been a tax on stupid people, don't fall for it, don't support it

People that say this think they're so smart. Oh, I'd never gamble because gambling is a "tax on the stupid." When, in reality you've simply heard someone else say this, and you're just repeating it because it makes you feel slick, and better than others who don't partake of the "stupid tax". You also base your silly statements on the odds of winning the biggest jackpot, yeah? 600 million to one or whatever. But I suppose you've never read all of the odds, you know, the ones where you see that winning a cash prize of any kind is 1 in 2.

A 50% chance of winning a ticket, or two bucks, plus the fun factor, is enough for me to spend $1, on occasion.

And that's one thing all of you "super smart" people that never buy lottery tickets seem to forget is the fact that it is fun. At least a fair portion of you have gambled. Whether in Vegas, at a reservation casino, or perhaps you live in a country where gambling is pretty much available anywhere. And you dropped that quarter in the slot or put down that dollar on the table because it's fun. Not because you are insistent that you'll hit the 1-in-13 million jackpot.

So, you want to still go with the "lottery is a tax on stupid people," line of reasoning? Fine, someone step up, and we'll go over your finances and pick out the "taxes on stupid people". Brand-name medicine, extended warranty plans, seven-dollar-coffee, high-octane gas for your Toyota Corolla... these are stupid taxes. Not a $1 ticket that gives you a moment of pleasure, and the possibility, no matter how remote, that you might win something. Try winning $2 from your extended warranty plan or $5 from your triple-the-generic-price acetaminophen. I'll bet at least half of you have Advil in your medicine cabinets when only "stupid people" buy brand-name medicine and the smart folks have generic Ibuprofen in there. Does that bottle of Advil drip money out of the bottom? Does your seven-dollar coffee that cost $0.18 to make have a secret $20 on the bottom when you finish?

Stupid tax... get off your high horse. None of you claiming this are without "stupid, frivolous" things in your life that you paid for. Not one.

Side note: I find it funny that I come into the housing forums, daily, expecting to read about housing, and it never fails that I come up with some ridiculous behavior every time. It can never be about housing, can it? The anger controls some. It's always gotta be about how people suck, SE sucks, everything is so terrible, everything needs to change, everyone besides the poster themselves is inept, etc., etc. Ain't you folks never dealt with anything serious enough in life to put these silly things into perspective? Or is not easily owning a FFXIV house the major disruption in your lives right now?

If that's true, y'all should consider yourselves lucky you've never had to deal with anything more real than that. Honestly, throw a party right now and enjoy it. Because life is going to throw things at you that make this silly housing frustration seem like the best day you've ever had. There will be days where you don't log in at all, weeks even, such as when you need to be by someone else's bedside when they're weak. Or drive them to their next radiation treatment. Days where you won't even care if your account is active or not.

To conceive of a situation beyond what's on your gaming screen, and adjust behavior accordingly is far beyond the capability of many, I suppose.

But yeah, "stupid tax," definitely don't do that because har-de-har I'm smart and you're stupid. That's definitely the way forward.

/rollmyeyes

[Nepentha]

2 small personal plots for sale in shiragane, balmung
no apparetments open
instanced housing when?
i thought my chances were bad last lotto, rolling against 37 other people for a small..

I assume you mean Shiro apartments? Because there's still open apartments in Empyreum on Balmung atm.

[HomelessSuncat]

yeah i meant shira apartments. i like the aesthetic of shiro more than the other zones

[Basteala]

Yeah Shirogane is a very cutthroat area to get residence--when Empy first opened there were over 200 people bidding over a lone small house in Shiro despite there being 7-8 bids (god I miss those days) on Empy smalls. I sincerely wish you luck.

[Redgate]

There are exactly 12 (TWELVE) Small personal plots available on Balmung. None have any bids below 34.

There are more open small plots in Ishgard Ward 1 than the entirety of personals server-wide.

Good luck!

[Oizen]

There are exactly 12 (TWELVE) Small personal plots available on Balmung. None have any bids below 34.

There are more open small plots in Ishgard Ward 1 than the entirety of personals server-wide.

Good luck!

but its ok because muh neighrbood feel.