Housing Roulette was an absolute trash idea.

[Stormpeaks]

I feel like people only want the old placard spam back because it'll limit how many people show up compared to the lottery and better their own odds. You're right, people have lives and shouldn't be forced to stand there for hours on end and having a life doesn't mean you shouldn't be able to get a house. The new system is better for giving everyone a chance who wants one and it's 100x better just on that fact.

And it's also better at making it agonizing to go pick up your gil at the placard when you just lost, after having waited 5 days for result, to then have to wait another 4 days to even bid again, and a whole 9 days to have the next results.

The odds of winning a house at a placard as one person agaisnt 50 is better than one person agaisnt 300 in lottery.

There was something called "Prime time", you never needed to camp a placard all day long, the prime time window was about 3 to 4 hours if I remember correctly in which the chance for the plot to sell was almost maximized. The people who camped all day long were doing it wrong.