Quote Originally Posted by DeNada View Post
Because I don't just have a character on Balmung? It's simply a character I have retired as I'm playing mainly on Materia now due to time zone difference.
Thank you for clarifying you are on Materia.

During today's live letter, please correct me if I am wrong but I'm fairly certainly that SE did not reveal any plans or intentions to release housing ahead of schedule for Materia.
No, they didn't but that doesn't mean people can't ask for the old cities to be released right now. Housing is something that a lot of people do need. Reminding SE that it would be helpful to us seems a good use of the forum. Especially if they are here looking for threads on "should Ishgard be fcfs or lottery" and see these.

I'm still convinced that lottery is the fairest way to distribute housing plots, especially if the demand for housing outstrip supply which seems to be the case. As I have mentioned, FCFS only appears to benefits the priveleged few who are able to login the moment the server goes up after 6.1.
You are welcome to that conviction. I think more people just want housing now.

Don't forget, lottery will still be there for Emperyum should they open the old cities now so you will still get your chance. People who wish to wait and participate for one of those 1,440 plots will be no worse off, than on any other server in any other region. In fact they could be better off as there will be less competition for those over a server - say on Aether.

But right now, we do need housing opened up. And that needs to be FCFS with maybe a few lottery wards as suggested above to do a production level debug for the rest of the world.