Update 6 on Lotttery

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Originally Posted by Jaquan

Then you lost the moment the RNG decided to not pick you. People who won't get the house now wouldn't get it even if there was no bug. Regardless of if SE decided to somehow deduct the Gil or not those who didn't win the lottery wouldn't get the house.The only gain those affected by bug have is Gil. Whether it's a substantial gain or not is up to anyone's interpretation

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The gil that can easily be lended to friends for future lotteries and increase competition for everyone else? ;)

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Originally Posted by Azuri

The gil that can easily be lended to friends for future lotteries and increase competition for everyone else? ;)

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Or spent on 500k dyes or whatever other stuff. Whatever tickles someone's fancy.

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Originally Posted by Solarra

What is the general feeling on the Japanese Forum though? Is everyone being philisophical about it or are feelings running high there too?

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It's a lively conversation hitting about 15 pages so far. Lively to the point the moderators have stepped in and deleted some posts.

The views are wide, varied, and on this topic, the NA and JP forums are surprisingly close. If Yoshi-P was to read that thread, he would see an echo of every single one of our points.

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Originally Posted by Azuri

When it comes to a limited resource like houses other people's gains are quite literally your loss.

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Then demand SE fix the situation so it's no longer a finite resource rather than get angry at your fellow gamer for having a little more luck.

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Originally Posted by Nepentha

Then demand SE fix the situation so it's no longer a finite resource rather than get angry at your fellow gamer for having a little more luck.

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bold of you to assume we dont also advocate for instanced housing

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Originally Posted by MaeveHatesHousing

bold of you to assume we dont also advocate for instanced housing

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Funny I've been on this forum for quite some time doing just that and I /just/ now see you speaking up at all. And just screaming about people getting their houses for free this round, the horror.

Not a bold assumption at all.

ppl are withdrawing their deposits as far as i'm aware, assuming they will get the house anyway. I just hope they will actually get it instead of some another thing occurs that's gonna make into an another clusterfak of problems.

Maybe make the house free up until patch 6.2, then you must pay the NPC to keep it or lose the home back to the lottery.

I'm kind of ambivalent about this issue. I mean, change the outcome one way or another and it still does not solve the core issue of there being not enough housing. For all the nerve-wracking grief that bidders on the Zero-bug plots went through, I don't really mind them getting some compensation. Could this have been handled better? Most certainly. It seems that the developers are fumbling around a bit. In the end though, the most important issue is making housing more plentiful for all. The Lottery solved the issue of fair access. Now we need more housing to meet the demand.

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Originally Posted by Arazehl

Maybe make the house free up until patch 6.2, then you must pay the NPC to keep it or lose the home back to the lottery.

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Seems they don't want to waste developer time making the database to track it, and all the coding to deal with payment and crossing names off the list, and the GM trouble if a FC member leaves the FC and maliciously doesn't pay.... plus a million other edge cases - along with the QA to ensure that nothing went wrong and innocent people's homes weren't destroyed. I mean, imagine a bug where someone who held a large for years and years lost it, because they didn't pay!

I guess it's a case of :- do you want more playable content in the next patch, or instead the Devs to put all that time and effort into reclaiming money instead?