Bid Time and Housing system is infuriating!

[Amarande]

Why the long lottery entry and claiming period windows? Because not everyone has the ability to log in daily on demand, especially service workers who can be required to do multiple day shifts and sleep at their worksite or near to it instead of at their home.

Also on the subject of a 24 hour window, no game should make a player feel forced to prioritize it over their real life obligations. The longer window gives player time to claim when it's convenient for them to log in, which is fine. The money from those of us with more time to be able to play is no more meaningful to SE than those who are also still paying but playing less per month. We already have advantages in other areas of the game due to the additional time we have; SE doesn't need to give us more.

Indeed. Service/retail workers get dunked on too often by MMO communities as it is (ever tried raiding as one ... oof), it's nice to see us get a little bone thrown at least.

Not going to say it's your fault you lost your house because the system does have some flaws. Seems to me that if SE wants to suspend demo out of compassions for those who have suffered misfortune, it should happen whether it's one player being in the hospital for an extended time due to serious illness/injuries or an entire region getting hit. Or better yet, use a better instanced housing system to solve the supply problem so players won't need to worry about their house demoing anymore than they have to worry about their apartment.

TBH, I've actually myself suggested the "it should be tied to an active subscription instead of entering the house" for exactly this reason.

Consider natural disasters for instance where you've lost everything; chances are you probably still have a phone with web access and that if you care enough about your XIV house, you'll still be able to muster the $15 a month for a sub (I mean, a fast food meal practically costs as much these days even), but you may not be able to afford the several hundred for a PlayStation or new gaming PC. So if it was tied to the sub there would also probably need to be far fewer blanket demo moratoria (which affect EVERYONE on the server), which is an advantage of that suggestion right?

also not really, youre comparing a month and some change to a week , ive gotten a house by both clicking for a whole sunday and lotto, lottos better by far.

Definitely. Either way you have to get lucky, so at least this lets you do other stuff meanwhile and keeps you from having to wear out your mouse trying (I already swear sometimes with the inefficient menus in this game that SE get money from Razer and Logitech, lol ...)