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

[Dagget]

My US char was the solo bid on a medium FC house that told me the winner was 0. I've left the Gil in, and there it will stay and process thru overnight this coming Sunday. I'm fine with Yoshi's approach to the Gil refund issue.

[lennit]

I was one of the unlucky players on the Oceanic servers to get this 0 bug. That has taken a month for SE to fix . by look of this situation, Reading all the letters and time it took to fix this problem. It look like, they used the players as test Dummies. For this new lotto system. I hate to say this, but I like the old system. yes, I clicked for over 15+ hours and had other players playing music around me, it was grate. If you think they should reset the lotto. give you a 2nd chance. I think they should do that. but since I'm a 100% guaranteed winner. they should reset it for everyone and I mean everyone. even ones that have had their house for years, make it fair. take away everyone houses just like them resetting my 100% guaranteed plot, so we can all wait a month in anger together. like I said, I like the clicking system. I didn't have to wait a week to get told to wait 4 more weeks to get it on the 16th maybe. I have friends on this server and I have seen other lucky player like ward 2 that didn't get the bug and I think there happy making Gil from grow plants, sub-craft missions with no competition. I don't think we should get it for free and I never ask for it to be free but I do think there should be a compensation. we have not been waiting just for this bug but since the server got open up.

[sagacious]

My US char was the solo bid on a medium FC house that told me the winner was 0. I've left the Gil in, and there it will stay and process thru overnight this coming Sunday. I'm fine with Yoshi's approach to the Gil refund issue.

I was like you at first and then I waited and began to get nervous thinking all of the things I can do with the 50 million gil deposit I put down and the possibility I could keep it andddddddddd the house? Do you have loose wires in that head of yours?

[Aethoren]

While I don't like the way they are handling this it does less damage than some of the alternatives. I suggest adding a title to their placard/house description such as freeloader if the gil deposit isn't returned.

[Tullyfish]

The NPC for repaying the housing deposit should be placed in front of the house's front door, and will only go away once the deposit is returned. Preferably a big, intimidating roegadyn: "I'm here to collect your debt!" ;-P

Edit: typo

[StriderShinryu]

As someone who paid for a plot upfront way back when and have enjoyed having a house since... I really don't see the issue here. It's probably the easiest way they could deal with the situation given the way the system appears to be coded. At least if someone was able to bid on the plot in the first place they could have afforded it at the time. Just live and let live.

[Edathol]

I mean, If I won a house in the previous lottery and had to pay gil for it just to learn that the people who "won" but just had to wait for SE to fix their broken system don't have to pay for it, I'd be very upset.

I won a large in the last round and I dont care if people that got the bug get theirs for free. I have mine and have been able to use it for the past month. I'm just happy I won.

[Avidria]

People who didn't take the refund can still go get it back so why is it crappy?

Crappy for anyone who doesn't see the notice before it's implemented

[Illmaeran]

However, I feel that this is more of an apology to the winning bidders on a house who would have won the house but then got beat out by a 0

This *and* can you imagine the backlash if SE had chosen to do a rollback on all servers? The entire player base would lose out on an entire month's worth of progress. I can't help but see that being a MUCH bigger problem than this.

I'm one of the ones affected by the 0 bug, and while I appreciate the gesture of voluntary repayment as an apology, I'd much prefer that everyone be required to pay back what was refunded. Not knowing how practical it would be for SE to code it, I think that once the NPC's added, putting all affected plots on a demolition timer would be a reasonable solution. That would give people 45 days to earn the Gil to repay the deposit if they spent some of their refund. Knowing that they'll be guaranteed to lose possession of the plot if they don't pay it back should put a fire under peoples' feet to repay it as soon as possible.

Even spicier and related to housing- open up mog shop housing items for purchase, for obviously high cost. Those fancy cherry blossom trees, can buy them again (for gil) at a fairly hefty price. I feel that would be a pretty successful gil sink. (Though both of the above are just draining gil, doesn't address free house unlike the first one - though full cost house at an expense of months of 'fun' (/s) also doesn't quite sound like a full price experience lol.. not sure I think free is comparable reward for the stress given in a month, but certainly it's not the full price experience you'd expect haha).

I've always thought being able to buy Mogstation credits with gil would be a great way to get it out of circulation. Even if they need to make it a 100,000 : 1 exchange rate to be an effective drain, I'd be buying stuff left and right. 2.7 million gil for that nifty mount I can't justify spending that much real money on? Yes, please!

[Bunnycake]

Take some hints from Nintendo, SE.