OCE does not need the lottery system on day one.

Please, for the love of god reconsider this.

OCE does not have the same problems that other datacenters have with congested housing and massive competition for plots.

We do not need the lottery system straight away, its going to cause more problems and delay owning a house for even more time.

I gave up a house on Tonberry to transfer to OCE and i feel scammed, we shouldn't have had to wait 3 months to buy a house, if people didn't want to transfer over then that's their problem.

Open housing early on the regular FCFS system for the people that have waited MONTHS for housing, its only fair.

I agree but they've obviously decided to lotto everything and I feel for those who actually gave up housing expecting the FCFS option when they arrived. Good luck I'm hoping to get at least a small for my FC although chancing trying to get one in a prime location might be taking a risk cause i believe even on Sophia the houses will all be gone after the first round.

If you haven't figured it out they have trouble doing two things at once. It costs money and takes some skill. So easier to blanket release the system.

I really feel bad for the people who gave up homes to help our new DC. Especially those on Sophia and Ravana. This is the worst descision to make for us. It will hurt the DC a lot.

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Originally Posted by Moonlite

If you haven't figured it out they have trouble doing two things at once. It costs money and takes some skill. So easier to blanket release the system.

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All they had to do was open housing for us at the last patch. No extra work.

While I gave up a house to transfer from Tonberry and deliberately chose Zurvan predicting it would have a lesser population but still maintain all the benefits of Duty and Roulette access on Materia, I'm definitely regretting the decision and bitter about how everything has panned out.

We weren't lied to and it was assumptions on my, and probably others ends about how things would pan out but I didn't expect that housing for us would be delayed so long and then the terms to access them change to full lottery, locked into one bid at a time, for 5 days.

Either way, taking a step back and looking at the big picture - the fact there is even a limited number of houses in a game where the player cap far exceeds is the most stupid concept I have ever heard.

Best of luck to all those that choose to continue paying in Euro's for... this.

/laughs in Ertswhile Sanctuary/Pariah's Pinnacle/Pantherfang Chapel.

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Originally Posted by Nafreyu

We weren't lied to and it was assumptions on my, and probably others ends about how things would pan out but I didn't expect that housing for us would be delayed so long

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Well at first they did say OCE was comming out with 6.1

Then they announced OCE release on 26th jan 'two weeks earlier than expected'.

The conclusion that everyone drew from that is that 6.1 was only a few weeks away, and that would have been fine.

If they had been direct and said housing was 4 months away from OCE release i would have stayed on JP and enjoyed the last few months playing instead of sitting in limsa bored out of my mind while they take my money.

you would have been bored in Elemental anyway
jack all to do regardless

Everyone gets the same now, not just the advantage for those able to book holidays from work.

Lottery was always going to be the way forward. They only ever said they would have the ability to toggle FCFS.

The question I would have is whether or not players are able to see how many lotto entries there are for a plot of land. Arguably, there may not be enough players in each world to fill up every plot in every ward in every zone for a good while. As such, giving players the means to search around for a plot of land that nobody has entered the lottery for would at least allow most to get into housing by the end of the first lotto round.

When they introduced the lottery system last year they said that you'd be able to see the number of bids on a plot.

I suspect everyone and their coeurl will target the last hour of the bidding to decide on a plot

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Originally Posted by Hasrat

The question I would have is whether or not players are able to see how many lotto entries there are for a plot of land. Arguably, there may not be enough players in each world to fill up every plot in every ward in every zone for a good while. As such, giving players the means to search around for a plot of land that nobody has entered the lottery for would at least allow most to get into housing by the end of the first lotto round.

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The sample screenshots from the news topic shows the placard window including "Current participants:0" so you will be able to tell how many others have already entered for that specific plot.

I also think you're severely underestimating the size of the player base if you think there aren't enough players on NA and EU worlds to fill what's being added the week Empyreum opens. JP worlds might be okay since they have about half the active average population that NA and EU worlds have, and their housing has historically filled at a slower rate. NA and EU are bursting at the seams, though, thanks to the population surge last year.

It's uncertain what will happen even on the Materia worlds. If the majority of characters are either transfers or new characters created by veteran players, that housing could fill very rapidly. There's been reports of large numbers of shell FCs appearing, most likely RMT prepared to try to get control over the market. It does players little good for SE to add all those plots if RMT is going to be flooding the lottery with entries (and don't be surprised if RMT will be present in the individual wards just as much as the FC wards - sales of service accounts with houses attached could be incoming).

May be a company wide policy even though some servers don't need it due to lesser sized pops.

I am on an OCE server, and I think it's good that everything is lotto. FCFS always sucks, when you get a huge flood of players logging into the game at once, and then you lose your chance at getting the houses because you got two log-in errors, and it's all snatched up in under 2mins.

Before someone says "That's fine, you can still go do the lottery houses afterwards, if it's split between lottery and FCFS!"
The more plots there are that are lottery, more likely you'll get a lottery plot, as there's less competition in the lottery per plot. The lottery system is better if you have a lot of houses up for lottery which is what OCE will have.

I gave up my medium plot 6 in the mist I had for 5 years to come to Ravana, I would at least like some chance to get a housing plot. Rather than having my chances ripped from me because the login server can't handle it, or I had do something else that day when the patch drops, so I couldn't log in.

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Originally Posted by NessaWyvern

I am on an OCE server, and I think it's good that everything is lotto. FCFS always sucks, when you get a huge flood of players logging into the game at once, and then you lose your chance at getting the houses because you got two log-in errors, and it's all snatched up in under 2mins.

Before someone says "That's fine, you can still go do the lottery houses afterwards, if it's split between lottery and FCFS!"
The more plots there are that are lottery, more likely you'll get a lottery plot, as there's less competition in the lottery per plot. The lottery system is better if you have a lot of houses up for lottery which is what OCE will have.

I gave up my medium plot 6 in the mist I had for 5 years to come to Ravana, I would at least like some chance to get a housing plot. Rather than having my chances ripped from me because the login server can't handle it, or I had do something else that day when the patch drops, so I couldn't log in.

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My personal opinion is that players that transfered with an active plot (That were reimbursed) should have have the ability to use FCFS on any plot the same size they left, even if it is marked as a lottery plot.

Its going to absolutely garbage if people not able to atleast replace the house they left behind.