Quote Originally Posted by Divinemights View Post
When people saying old system is better, they are referring it is easier to claim during plot release.
If you smart enough and pick a small in Goblet, you will get your first house and you are free to relocate afterward.
You also don't need a day off as all you need to sacrifice is 1 hour of sleep by setting alarm clock before maintenance comes to end.
You log in at ouside of housing ward entrance (not main city) and enter the route you have been practicing and claim your first house.
It is as simple as 1 2 3 and I recommend same method to my friends who start after 3.0 and they all got their first house.
Why do we have to go to such ridiculous lengths, in an MMO though?

SE does not advertise ward housing as exclusive content. Quite the opposite.

If XIV had proper fully instanced housing from the start like Wildstar or Rift - sufficient supply - we would not have to participate in things like land rushes,compete against bots/RMT etc

Not sure why some players are defending a system that does not respect a player's time and heavily incentivizes third party tools.

Especially, when SE themselves have not stated that ward housing is meant to be exclusive.