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

[Cheremia]

A lot of houses on Balmung are taken by now. Not all, but a lot

For the FC wards.... That's another story alltogether. Ghosttowns, more not taken than taken.

Lol

[Ignessia]

I think maybe Yoshida doesn’t want us to have a 100% chance of winning, so we absolutely need to have concurrents on the plot to count it as a true lottery.
So at least 2 people for individual houses and 2 FC for FC houses.
So you cannot start at 100%, 50% at best. That’s a terrible management and they could have told us that.
I’m really pissed of.

This would be ok if there was a shorter time window for lottery stuff. The lottery circle taking more than a week in total would mean empty houses for many weeks.

[Illmaeran]

Because if I had lost mine to other people, I'd be fine with it. C'est la vie, しょうがない, that's how RNG works.

Exactly! If there had been multiple people bidding on my plot and I lost to one of them, "meh, that's life". However, since I lost due only to an error in SE's coding, I'm not at all happy about things. They need to make things right, in a way that all people who legitimately entered into the lottery receive the proper results of said lottery and not just "Sorry, enter next time kkthxbai!".

[SteelbladeUK]

Its already being admitted its a bug.

[SnowVix]

I think maybe Yoshida doesn’t want us to have a 100% chance of winning, so we absolutely need to have concurrents on the plot to count it as a true lottery.
So at least 2 people for individual houses and 2 FC for FC houses.
So you cannot start at 100%, 50% at best. That’s a terrible management and they could have told us that.
I’m really pissed of.

How to tell everyone you don't read dev communication without actually saying it.

[Aoi_Futaba]

Honestly the ONLY way they can sort this and people be happy is to freeze the lottery system and reroll EVERY plot lottery that returned winner 0
then and ONLY then after that has been done continue with the lottery system
Not reopening the plots for a new lottery, not better luck next time, find every lottery that ended 0 and reroll it

[IdowhatIwant]

That is a fair point... it does depend on the cause of the bug. But if people bought items etc winning, is that fair either? Would they lose them? And how to best respect their time.

I suppose my POV is skewed as my server is fairly quiet and there were still many no-bid plots left : If the RNG was faulted and it is a full server, I could see that being unfair.

Maybe : Retain plots won, give us another ward or two to cover the number of houses lost : We are overdue for at LEAST one more ward by YEARS - why not do it now? Let us gain a positive out of this mess Would keep people happy, let others have more housing, let people that already had the bid an honest roll of the bid already entered, let people that already won keep their homes - and we will unlikely ever know if it was 100% fair or not. But if others do not lose from it, I do not see harm in retaining it :

From what I saw, on average one (two at most) plots per ward won :/ the winnings were SUPER low and an extra ward would MORE than cover the amount of winners for us.

But how is it for others out there? Did other servers win a heap? Is it something impossible to cover? I'd rather no one lost their home and had that joy stripped away. I can only speak from what I am seeing on our server.

P.s. I got error Zero too : And all my friends did. I just can't stand the idea that the excitement I had be shattered like it was for me....and the disappointment after doesn't get repeated for others. Here for a good time, not to have others hurt to fix an issue.

P.s.s. Let's all remember that the big part of why this is such a mess is the lack of housing in the first place

Like I said it's easier to only address the 0s and not address how fair or unfair the lotto was for those that won. In the end unless they rolled back everything before the lotto finished, it would be a huge nightmare to address relocations and all of that. Bad time for them to screw up, people are still mad about the job changes in 6.1 and now this happens.

I lost my lotto apparently, number 5 won it. Who ever you are.... I don't like you cause I was 1 of 1 last night til all yall found my plot. Oh well I guess I am stuck in the goblet again. I hate it here.

[ValkyriaCrystalis]

How to tell everyone you don't read dev communication without actually saying it.

It’s a theory, but honestly, I don’t think they can make a big coding mistake like this one ?
I’m on this game since 6 years and I truly want to believe this is a mistake but they are more capable than this, don’t you think ?
I’m lucky to have a small house but this is really crushing for a lot of people. Square knows the community cares about houses so why didn’t they checked their code better before release ?

Sorry if I sounded rude or something, English is not my primary language but if it is a bug, it is quite a BIG one.

[HollowedDoll]

It’s a theory, but honestly, I don’t think they can make a big coding mistake like this one ?
I’m on this game since 6 years and I truly want to believe this is a mistake but they are more capable than this, don’t you think ?
I’m lucky to have a small house but this is really crushing for a lot of people. Square knows the community cares about houses so why didn’t they checked their code better before release ?

Sorry if I sounded rude or something, English is not my primary language but if it is a bug, it is quite a BIG one.

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...9ca96a154cef76

[Aoi_Futaba]

P.s.s. Let's all remember that the big part of why this is such a mess is the lack of housing in the first place

THIS so much this