Housing Roulette was an absolute trash idea.

[KenaiChoppa]

So you want to stay 24/7 clicking on a bill board with the hope that you might beat a bot or someone else that is right there? idk chief, that sound awful. The current system is not the best but a lot of better of spending your gaming hours in clicking a billboard.

The solution is more wards

I suggested something similar recently. Add an aetheryte plaza and a bunch of convenience NPCs, and don't design your towns so that everything you need is within two seconds walking distance and I'm willing to bet housing wards might become a bit more active... at least had this been done years ago. However, at this point people are too ingrained in the major cities to ever leave them. Limsa and Sharlayan in particular are both extremely convenient, and Gridania is always a popular zone.

Making players walk and spend more than 5 seconds doing something?!!! are you nuts!!!one1111 /s

I totally dig the idea of having more "walking" and actually travel through the game/towns. But sadly the current philosophy of the game is the exact opposite: the max amount of activities in the less time possible. And this is not on the devs, the majority of the game population always complain if they put something that cant be speedrunned in 1:45 seconds.

[Carin-Eri]

So you want to stay 24/7 clicking on a bill board with the hope that you might beat a bot or someone else that is right there? idk chief, that sound awful. The current system is not the best but a lot of better of spending your gaming hours in clicking a billboard.

Agreed - and although this point has already been raised it's worth repeating anyway: some players (myself included) would never have sufficient time to indulge that nonsense due to R/L commitments.
For all the pros and cons, the biggest 'pro' in favor of the lottery system is that it does at least give everyone a chance to win a house.

[Midareyukki]

So you want to stay 24/7 clicking on a bill board with the hope that you might beat a bot or someone else that is right there? idk chief, that sound awful. The current system is not the best but a lot of better of spending your gaming hours in clicking a billboard.

Agreed - and although this point has already been raised it's worth repeating anyway: some players (myself included) would never have sufficient time to indulge that nonsense due to R/L commitments.
For all the pros and cons, the biggest 'pro' in favor of the lottery system is that it does at least give everyone a chance to win a house.

[DiaDeem]

Agreed - and although this point has already been raised it's worth repeating anyway: some players (myself included) would never have sufficient time to indulge that nonsense due to R/L commitments.
For all the pros and cons, the biggest 'pro' in favor of the lottery system is that it does at least give everyone a chance to win a house.

I'm just gonna double (or I guess triple) down on this just because some people that dislike lottery (even if it's perfectly justified) have this completely insane idea that spamming a placard for 8 hours was better or nice or fun or fair or some other mad idea. I've always said this: Both systems are coin tosses, but one at least lets you do literally ANYTHING ELSE with your life while the coin flip is happening other than mashing one button constantly in hopes that maybe you-- oh wait the bot got it again xdddd