Update 6 on Lotttery

This housing system is so flawed. It's really unfortunate.

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Originally Posted by XiXiQ

The few who got their houses have now had a month. A month to grow their gardens, build their submarines and other things in the FC workshop. The ones stuck with the bug will never get ahead of that market curve.

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Well those that didn't win also had to wait a month and now have nothing to show for it at all except a month of wasted hope., didn't even get a free house out of the deal they just get told to fuck off and try again against a now ever insurmountable set of odds.

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Originally Posted by Pablomaldito

Getting the houses out to their rightful winners is the #1 priority. People have had to wait over a month for their results, and it would be ridiculous to delay things any further for the sole purpose of making sure to take their gil.

If you were lucky enough to win a house in a non-bugged plot, then be thankful for that. You have been able to to enjoy your house for the past month without needing to deal with the drama and uncertainty of having a glitched plot. It is not your place to judge what happens to the gil of the winners of these plots.

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those that didnt win have now had to deal with the drama and pain of having not won a plot, now having to face ever worse odds to get a house, and dont even have "free gil" to show for it.

sorry buddy. i dont care about those that had to wait a month for their house because in the end at least they have a house. i'm now stuck fighting 500 people instead of 5 for a plot.

I am incredibly disappointed with this fix. I'm probably in that small group (or maybe not that small?) that left my money in the lot, in the belief that Square would fix this issue. And now, here we are. Sure, I have my house, but why do some players get theirs for free? It just doesn't sit right.

It's just misstep after misstep.

The lottery as it was conceived was a band aid on a bullet wound. The lottery as it was implemented was a defective band aid on a bullet wound. They've already spent a whole month fixing the band aid. Do you really want them to waste more time on that stupid band aid? It's not going to help you in any way if they manage to perfect their band aid and collect some gil from the winners.

I hate the housing sytem. I lost my lottery too (though I didn't need to wait a month to know). I know exactly what awaits my future housing prospects under the current system. In round 2, we're probably going to see nearly a hundred bidders per house. Subsequent rounds will be even worse until they open up the smalls in the FC wards to personal buyers. At that point, we may see odds as "good" as round 1 (10% chance is "good" in this horrible system lol). But after everything fills and we go to the usual 1 or 2 houses available every week, it's gonna be hundreds or thousands of bids per house. 0.1% lotteries, here we come!

If you don't get a house in these initial rounds, then it is reasonable to assume that you will never get a house. The numbers are just so staggering. I hope more and more people realize that as the lotteries go on, and that hatred for the housing system increases among the player population. But wasting time trying to collect some gil solves nothing for any of us. We need the lotteries to start running again so that we can see those horrible 1000 bidder rounds and the much deserved drama and hatred that they will inevitably generate.

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Originally Posted by Pablomaldito

The lottery as it was conceived was a band aid on a bullet wound. The lottery as it was implemented was a defective band aid on a bullet wound. They've already spent a whole month fixing the band aid. Do you really want them to waste more time on that stupid band aid? It's not going to help you in any way if they manage to perfect their band aid and collect some gil from the winners.

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No, I don't expect them to waste more time, the housing lottery needed to be re-started asap. They have had enough time and it's incredibly disappointing that this is their fix. It's just not right that Square-Enix are allowing some to receive their house for free, potentially allowing some players to receive a boost of 20-50m gil. I don't know what the solution is. No-one is happy, except those that got their house first (especially in the new DC) or, I suppose now, those that won the lottery and get to keep their gil.

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Originally Posted by ChrysOCE

I am incredibly disappointed with this fix. I'm probably in that small group (or maybe not that small?) that left my money in the lot, in the belief that Square would fix this issue. And now, here we are. Sure, I have my house, but why do some players get theirs for free? It just doesn't sit right.

It's just misstep after misstep.

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It is just gil, and saying what you are saying.. is like showing that you are dishonest and would just run with the bank.

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Originally Posted by Themarvin

It is just gil, and saying what you are saying.. is like showing that you are dishonest and would just run with the bank.

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How am I dishonest, when I left my gil in the lot? I didn't take the refund, I paid for my house.

Sure it's just gil, which you can use to get furnishings, glamour, dyes, materia. I'm not saying I want my house for free. I'm saying everyone should pay for their house. If they want to provide some measure of compensation, for all of this, an optional payment only for those that took the refund, when they won their house, isn't it.

Put all houses affected by the bug on a demolition timer that starts with the NPC's added and won't stop until plot's paid for or time runs out. I can't see them going back on their voluntary repayment statement, but damn if it wouldn't be a great way to force people to pay and entertaining to see the salt generated by that feature being announced.

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Originally Posted by Illmaeran

Put all houses affected by the bug on a demolition timer that starts with the NPC's added and won't stop until plot's paid for or time runs out. I can't see them going back on their voluntary repayment statement, but damn if it wouldn't be a great way to force people to pay and entertaining to see the salt generated by that feature being announced.

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Now this I can get behind :)