<MATERIA> First-Come First-Served AND Lottery Plots

[LunaFancy]

The plot hoarding on other data centres is the result of grandfathering in plots purchased under old rules that allowed all alts on the same account to own a plot. The FC hoarding similarly happened under rules that allowed accounts to own more than one FC house. Those rules have been changed and it is no longer possible to hoard entire wards. As for multiple account holders owning plots- that won't be changing since each extra account counts as a completely different player.

The fact remains that SE encouraged veteran players who already held plots to move to the new data centre, while stating that Ishgard and only Ishgard would be having the lottery system implemented. Notice that none of us are asking for that to be changed, because we signed on for that.

What we did NOT sign on for was a full implementation of lottery across the old wards. You seem to be a new player so don't understand the cost of uprooting an endgame character and moving to a new data centre. Queues for endgame content are awful, the market is horrible, the experience is not really great. I realised that going in and went anyway in order to support SE in their efforts to support the OCE area, however I did so under the belief that when housing was released, the old wards would be FCFS as they have ALWAYS been when new worlds are launched.

I don't think that I am the only veteran player who is looking at their sacrifice to support the devs in a new light now, I can't say that I would have moved if they had made it clear that this horrible lottery system would be in play across all wards, it is disingenuous of them to move the goal posts in this way.

And yes, people who left houses behind to populate the new data centre with experienced players to support the huge number of sprouts deserve to have a FCFS chance at getting their old homes back. If we all left the servers in protest the data centre would surely feel our loss.

SE needs to stop ignoring the loyalty of long term players in favour of appeasing newcomers, we've already lost veteran rewards, have had the crafting system gutted and seen levelling bonuses out of control in favour of appeasing the new players, please don't betray the good faith we showed in moving to a new data centre by forcing the lottery system on old areas in new worlds like this.

It's not even about the inability to get a medium/large plot, with how awful the markets are I am sure we'll have enough, but my god this is going to make for an awfully slow and tedious process with all the waiting between draws if someone (and there will always be someone) decides to lot on a plot with an entry even though there is the same plot un-lotted in four other wards. The lottery on demolished houses in full worlds makes some sense (it's still an awful idea though imo) but 24wards across 5 areas on a new world being lottery is utterly ridiculous.

Let sanity prevail please.