So, what now? Lotteries with 150+ bids until... when?

[Stormpeaks]

You sure care enough to spam the thread about how the placard spam system was good, ignoring everything that made it terrible. But you do you. Congrats on your plot, want a medal for that?

It's called actually putting effort into something, something that is apparently very hard for you to do since you are lazy and want everything for 0 effort and NOW.

[Sheriyana]

It's called actually putting effort into something, something that is apparently very hard for you to do since you are lazy and want everything for 0 effort and NOW.

Well you do deserve a medal for your efforts of spamming a placard, I'm sure you felt a lot of pride and accomplishment. Yes, I'm very lazy indeed, everyone who didn't get a plot with that system was just lazy. I did indeed say that everything should be just handed out to me. Apparently making a more accessible system is just wanting everything handed out immediately with no effort. You really seem to think that a house is some sort of status symbol.

[Stormpeaks]

Well you do deserve a medal for your efforts of spamming a placard, I'm sure you felt a lot of pride and accomplishment. Yes, I'm very lazy indeed, everyone who didn't get a plot with that system was just lazy. I did indeed say that everything should be just handed out to me. Apparently making a more accessible system is just wanting everything handed out immediately with no effort. You really seem to think that a house is some sort of status symbol.

everyone who didn't get a plot with that system was just lazy

Yes they were.

[Jojoya]

The number of people in this thread defending the old system is mind boggling. Any system that would encourage people to neglect their personal health in order to win a house is pretty obviously unethical.

The only point any of them have is that before you could, through great acts of neckbeardery, improve your chances. Which is true, but it makes you look pretty bad.

Any anecdotes (too many in this thread to quote) claiming they just walked up to a placard and casually purchased a plot can be dismissed as either trolling or, much less likely, dumb luck.

Or they were purchasing at a point in time when either supply was meeting demand adequately or there was a brief surge in the number of available houses for whatever reason.

I bought my first house back in 3.4. There wasn't a lot to chose from, maybe 2 dozen houses total and almost exclusively smalls in Goblet, but they were available. I walked right up and purchased it. I ended up losing that house to demolition when I couldn't play at the start of Stormblood so I made due with an apartment when I returned.

When the personal purchase moratorium was lifted on wards 13-18 in 4.2, I walked up to my dream plot (Mist 60) and was able to purchase it immediately. I watched over the next 10 months as the ward slowly filled up. No one was having trouble getting a house on Coeurl that year.

FCs had no problem getting a house when the new wards were first added in 5.1. There were still quite a few houses left available on most worlds as the personal purchase moratorium ended (and they all disappeared within a few hours of that happening).

Some of the anecdotes might well be fiction or at least exaggerated but others will be true stories. It depends on when and where they were making the purchase.

[Sheriyana]

Yes they were.

Yes, because there's always been enough plots for everyone who has wanted one. That's why housing is perfect in XIV and no one in the game or even in this very thread is complaining about it.

[Stormpeaks]

Yes, because there's always been enough plots for everyone who has wanted one. That's why housing is perfect in XIV and no one in the game or even in this very thread is complaining about it.

Sure beats now, I'd rather fight agaisnt 15-20 bots than fight agaisnt 500 "real" players, up to you friendo

[Sheriyana]

Sure beats now, I'd rather fight agaisnt 15-20 bots than fight agaisnt 500 "real" players, up to you friendo

Well actually, contrary to what you seem to believe, they could actually make an even better system, imagine that. No one here has said that the lottery system is flawless, it just doesn't make you spam a placard nonstop for 2-24 hours to have a CHANCE at getting one.

[WillIrishclover]

It's called actually putting effort into something, something that is apparently very hard for you to do since you are lazy and want everything for 0 effort and NOW.

Im waiting for you to now start talking about 'kids these days'

'oh back in my day jimbo we stood by a placard for 8 hours constantly clicking and we liked it'

[Stormpeaks]

Well actually, contrary to what you seem to believe, they could actually make an even better system, imagine that. No one here has said that the lottery system is flawless, it just doesn't make you spam a placard nonstop for 2-24 hours to have a CHANCE at getting one.

They could make a better system yes, by adding more damn wards, there is space for a lot more on the list.

[Sheriyana]

They could make a better system yes, by adding more damn wards, there is space for a lot more on the list.

And how many more times do they need to add new wards so there's enough? They've had to add new wards so many times and it has never been anything but a band-aid fix, that's why people are frustrated about it. These band-aids have not and will not work so they need to do something else.