Is the new housing notice saying you can keep your money and get the house?

[Stormpeaks]

My hot take; it reads as if they're going by the honor system with this as a resolution, but what they should do is not relinquish the plot until the deposit has been put back in by the winner of the draw--otherwise, it gets put back up for the lottery system the next time around.

It's really that easy, not sure why this is not the case already

[CaptainFishSticks]

Post it on Twitter, that is where the new SJW English Community Rep gets all her feedback from. This will definitely grab her attention.

Not sure what being SJW has to do with anything, but cool.

[Roehann]

I don't have a dog in this fight as I got my house through the painful clicking on plaque until I won on the last day before EW maintenance started.. I basically gave up the game from July until then to suffer through until I finally beat the bots and won.

That being said, I wonder how many of you guys that started thousands of threads complaining and fussing about the housing market, the failed lottery system and how SE just sucked because of it will now post thousands of thread to say you're sorry, that you were wrong, that SE does actually listen and try to make the best of a situation don't worry I won't hold my breathe... you guys love to rail against everything here but never come back and say you were wrong.

In doing this SE has not only stepped up and made it right but shown me they are DO care about their community. I guess you guys will have to find something else to complain about... oh no, there is always SAM and so many other things you guys take so seriously in this game... nevermind..

[sagacious]

Am I reading this right?
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For winning participants who already received a gil refund due to the “Winning Lottery Number of 0” error

Once lottery data has been restored, some participants may discover that they had, in fact, won the lottery, despite already receiving a refund due to the lottery number error. Even if your deposit was refunded due to this system error, your ability to finalize the purchase of a won plot will remain unaffected.
　
In patch 6.2 we plan to implement an NPC by which you may voluntarily return the deposit you were accidentally refunded.
As these housing lottery issues have been significant and caused great stress and frustration in many players, we have no intention of performing a data rollback to forcibly rescind any refunded gil. We will make an announcement regarding the voluntary return of housing deposits once the NPC in question is ready to be implemented.
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So we should all go get our refunds now in case we won? Then we can have both house and money?

excuse me? At the time when the housing trouble started I froze then checked the forums. Forums said to keep the money in the entry and I did. My gil is still in the housing ..... should I take it out now? then not put it back in during patch 6.2? is this the advice?

[RobynDaBank]

*Deep breaths*

I just proposed an honor way if someone really feels terrible that they got the house for free as the compensation for the bug that kept them from getting one for a month.

But hey feel free to let all the negative emotions flow. We've already dropped all pretense of being positive community.

Easier to be cranky and sarcastic for those upvotes.

[Oizen]

Nope that is what is says.

SE is amazing for doing this specially when they know the game is over saturated with gil. Great job, I expected nothing less of SE than to do more unfair BS and continue to make piss poor decisions.

I assume the original intention was that Housing was meant to be the game's gil sink.

But unfortunately theres only enough houses for like 1% of the games total population, and any other substitute is an absolute joke.

[Jaquan]

It's really that easy, not sure why this is not the case already

Simple. Doing so would trigger a reaction of "I should have won but now I don't have the money and SE takes away what should have been mine"

[Raim]

You guys act like the options were "Let them keep the gil" or "Do rollbacks." Is a company not capable of simply removing the gil for the winners? It cant be that hard. Relying on them morally feeling guilty and giving away 20m or 50m for nothing is silly and will only happen for like 1% of the winners.

[DezereDawn]

i mean, some of us have left our money in just to make their jobs easier for the last month even if we were the sole bidder and are guaranteed to get our house, this almost feels like an incentive to log in and claim a refund if i want to keep my gil, i personally don't think i will, but at that rate you might as well just refund everyone that was affected by the 0 bug and won instead of those who won and decided to take their money back

[Kolsykol]

I assume the original intention was that Housing was meant to be the game's gil sink.

But unfortunately theres only enough houses for like 1% of the games total population, and any other substitute is an absolute joke.

Tbh I think a very small portion can even afford the houses.
Maybe I am just wasteful with my gil too, but I am usually sitting around 100k-1mil gil.
I don't think most people are sitting on millions and millions but I could be wrong I am fairly wasteful.