Housing update 3 is up.

[Livilda]

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.

Once again, the error is not in the drawing; it is in communicating the (ERROR-FREE) results of the lottery to the housing system.

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.

Anyone who does would have zero legal standing, as neither the consideration nor the prize are exchangable for real-world currency or services according to Square-Enix's Terms of Service - as I have proven previously in this very thread, in response to your own post. The services in-game - such as the housing system and the lottery set up around it - are provided at will, as-is, and can be revoked from you at any time, at S-E's discretion. You agree to this when you install the game. Explicitly. In the terms of service. You are not even legally entitled to a fair in-game Lottery System.

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.

Right, because FFXIV's only purpose is housing, am I right? That's the only reason anyone ever plays this game, right? Just to decorate their houses. Surely, nobody else plays it to socialize, make friends, challenge difficult raids with their friends, explore, craft, experience the story, or do any other kind of content, right? NooooOOooo, Mr. HisShadowX is angery about housing, so we need to make housing the biggest priority, right?

Come back when you are the producer and director for a massively popular MMORPG with millions of subscribers worldwide. Then we can talk about what you think is best for FFXIV.