Ishgard Housing No Lottery For Wards

[LaylaTsarra]

Lottery system sucks, generally during content drought moments not many people are playing and its really easy to pick up a house. With this new lottery system even during those times its gonna be an absolute gamble whether you get it or not. Not in favor of it either. I already have a house and Id rather placard spam all over again then to compete in a gambling system where the odds are stacked against me.

The biggest problem with lottery in my view is you get one shot with new ward releases and you have to wait not sure how many days before you find out. When you do find out all the houses will be sold. With new ward releases and fcfs you may not get your house of choice but there will be multiple opportunities for less than desirable locations especially with smalls.

You don't need to be the first or near first unless you want a medium or large and getting that small can be doable fairly easily unless you are on big servers like Balmung. But even with Balmung I had two friends get homes on Balmung last release then relog on Siren to find many houses still available and one of those friends was able to transfer to a more desirable plot.

Now with all the new people who have joined the game it's hard to say what will happen this go around with log in queues. Seems the populations have exploded to a point it's really hard to say what would happen until release day. I was able to get a large on Siren with Sirogane Savage back when Shiro first released but I doubt I'd even be close this time around. I transferred a character to Sophia and would like a shot at a house but even will all the housing open in all regions I'm wondering how that lottery is actually going to play out. On Spriggan in the EU houses were available and open for a very long time before they filled all the plots. Judging by the log in queues and the number of people I'm seeing in cities on Sophia and elsewhere the servers seem to be pretty full., Now how may will be able to buy houses is an unknown.