The lotto winner.... number ZERO? Are you serious???

[MilkieTea]

I thought I had legit lost and accepted the refund of my deposit. So I suppose that's going to disqualify me now if they re-examine the database and re-run the lottery for the plot I bid on. RIP.

Oh no!

I'd like to say for anyone else here, PLEASE don't accept the refund until things are fixed. There's quite a long refund period to accept it, so please be patient and keep your money in there.

[RobynDaBank]

I thought I had legit lost and accepted the refund of my deposit. So I suppose that's going to disqualify me now if they re-examine the database and re-run the lottery for the plot I bid on. RIP.

I accepted my refund because it showed that number 1 had won. Didn't know some bug shenanigans were happening until I came here. They'll probably only consider those who still haven't accepted the refund and opted out. Oh well. Getting a house in this game just isn't in my cards so I've accepted it.

[Canadane]

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...49#post5903449





About the problem that occurs in the lottery sale of the housing (4/17)

Currently, in the lottery sale of housings, when checking the signboard after the result announcement period, the following message is displayed and there are multiple reports that there are no winners.
・ Even though there were applicants, "There were no lottery participants." Is displayed.
・ "The winning number is 0. You have lost." Is displayed, and it is displayed as if there are no winners.
We are urgently checking the applications on the database and proceeding with the investigation and response. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience.

We apologize for any inconvenience caused to our customers.

[Velvet_Lunarfang]

well that is NOT fair that people went ahead and took their refund. If they give someone else the plot because of the bug and people didn't know and got their money back how would that be fair. You be making more people angry

[Dagget]

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...8c13200da81594

(english)

[RobynDaBank]

well that is NOT fair that people went ahead and took their refund. If they give someone else the plot because of the bug and people didn't know and got their money back how would that be fair. You be making more people angry

I want to be pissed about it but I had some alcohol so I feel like the pain is numb. It's just a game. I'll be content with my apartment.

[Avindr]

The most sensible explanation is that it's a silly programming error where they included the default "0 ticket" in the lottery by accident (which would be the winner if no one entered) so instead of there only being one entrant, there were actually 2: Ticket 0 and Ticket 1, so the actual chance of winning was 50%.

Well if that is the case Mr 'Zero' still won my FC house with a 12.5% chance. We had 7 bids lol.

I don't think this is how it works at all tbh. If you go to 'view the results' it says that nobody bid even though we can still see 7 bids on the placard. Clearly the system thinks that nobody bids so it just doesn't know what to do other than display that 0 won. How the F that happened is anyone's guess.

[Velvet_Lunarfang]

I would say for those that got a bugged plot to refund everyone and have it start over again. If you someone wins it based on a bug technicality not only is it unfair for those didn't know but then you be taking the community and making them angry at you and not trusting you anymore

[Kahl]

Honestly even for the house that had an actual winner (say number 3 out of 10 applicant), the way it happened is not fair.
I mean grats to the winner, he should keep it obviously, but the odds were 1/11 and not 1/10.
So the "no winner" issue and "number 0 winner" are the worst case, but nothing is actually okay with any plot..

[Minifie]

Well if that is the case Mr 'Zero' still won my FC house with a 12.5% chance. We had 7 bids lol.

I don't think this is how it works at all tbh. If you go to 'view the results' it says that nobody bid even though we can still see 7 bids on the placard. Clearly the system thinks that nobody bids so it just doesn't know what to do other than display that 0 won. How the F that happened is anyone's guess.

This is due to the follow up I think; obviously if no one lots, the lottery still happens, but it pulls number "0", and that means "no one bid", since you can't bid until the next lotting period, this was probably implemented to make sure houses unlotted can't be bid on during the cooldown period.