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

[sagacious]

As someone who DID win a house in the lottery, I have absolutely no problem with this. I've had a month to mess about, decorate, hold a birthday party, meet my neighbours and generally have fun. Meanwhile there's a whole bunch of people who have been disappointed, sad, frustrated and annoyed. That's not cool and if some people get a free house from this, I just see it as compensation for being throughly jerked around by SE for a month.

What happens to other people and their house does not in any way affect my own enjoyment of my own house.

You didn't add the benefits of this extra month of having a house, such as gardening and planting thavnarian seeds and then selling the onions for 1/2 a million each. You have an extra month to sell crystals, shards on the MB because of the gardening capacity. You have made millions while we wait and spend said gil on crystals you made gardening. You've had an extra month of growing your subs/airships and selling of the mats from said voyages. You have made exteriors that are going for millions on the MB. I know I purchased one for 3 million. We deserve a free house.