Quote Originally Posted by Iscah View Post
Even if the zero was being treated as a valid number in the lottery, it would have no impact on the variety of other numbers being drawn.

The prevalence of low numbers is entirely to do with the fact that many of the plots would only have that low number of entries to draw from. Every plot with any number of entries on it could produce 1 as the winning number, but can only produce an 8 if there were at least eight entries to that specific lottery – and needs even more entries to have a reasonable chance of that being the winning number.
At this point as others stated we are relying on the word of others. We are all guessing at this point. What's true is we have a large amount of people upset and seeing the drawing as illegitimate. Any lottery or drawing or video gaming (gambling machine) that has an error is considered illegitimate. I would not be shocked if someone decides to take this to court or call their Senators about this issue.

As I have proven before Square Enix in the past has caused elected officials to create laws that affect all 50 states due to one state (Illinois) enacting a law because of Square Enix's billing practices for FFXI.

At this point the development team should focus on creating a new housing system. In fact they can keep their current wards as is but creating an instanced housing system would most likely satisfy spurned consumers. The current ward system alone is and has been a disaster for years and like FFXIV 1.0 you cannot fix it. Instead, it must be completely replaced with something else. Forget the story content for now the housing situation requires the teams full focus.