If we must have the lottery please let us withdraw entries and try another plot

[LaylaTsarra]

There has to be some sort of deterrent to discourage people from nilly willy changing their bids though as that would confuse people who submitted a bid based on information that could vary if bids are withdrawable.

People are going to wait until the last hour or so to place bids. There won't be any accurate information about how many have or will bid until the last hour assuming the bid number on the house is shown and updated upon entry. Letting people change isn't and shouldn't be a problem. It at least gives some who are willing to work at finding a house with a few bids and increasing their chance for getting a house.

Be that as it may they've already appear to have made the decision to not allow withdrawals so I know personally I'm going to wait and I'm sure I won't be the only one.

With respect to Materia I hope we will have a mix of FCFS and Lotto in the older housing districts or restrict lotto to Ishgard only. That certainly hasn't been made clear by the post on the special site. We'll know the full playing field in a few days when they discuss this during the live letter.

I feel for people on Materia who actually gave up houses with the expectation they would be able to FCFS a house on the new data center because it's always been that way and the initial discussion of housing stated there would at the least be a mix of FCFS and Lotto but that certainly appears to have changed.