Quote Originally Posted by dspguy View Post
All the lotto system was designed to fix was the standing for hours on end at a placard fighting against bots (RMT or actual player). That's it. It appears it was successful. Bots had just as much of a chance as legit players.

The other change they made to the housing system was to work towards getting every FC that wants one a house. As per that FFXIVHousing site, about 30% of FCs have houses. Sure, some are shell FCs or one-player FCs, but 30% ownership is a glaring problem. SE addressed that by making, for now, all wards 1-18 for FCs only. Within a few lottery cycles, we should see FC ownership climb towards 100% (of the FCs that want a house).

The supply problem faced by private players is not one they have addressed. They might never address it. It could be something as simple as SE never thought FFXIV would be this successful and the software and hardware isn't extensible to millions upon millions of housing plots with all the storage that goes with that (item placement coordinates, rotation, etc).
so basically in other words they fixed nothing and they wont fix anything.