Update 6 on Lotttery

[MaeveHatesHousing]

Ultimately whats going to happen is a load of people will now get free houses, we all read the update , whats done is done, refund the gil and get a free house seems to be the message they have sent.


SE probably went with this as the solution which was the fairest.

How is it any way fair?

People who won a house, they have a house and 3-50 mil less gil.
People who didn’t win a house have been unable to try again for almost two months and don’t get any compensation for that, and still don’t have a house.
People who won but got bugged have a free house now.

This is unfair to the vast majority, the players with no house. And it’s unfair to those who paid for a house.

[Yodada]

How is it any way fair?

People who won a house, they have a house and 3-50 mil less gil.
People who didn’t win a house have been unable to try again for almost two months and don’t get any compensation for that, and still don’t have a house.
People who won but got bugged have a free house now.

This is unfair to the vast majority, the players with no house. And it’s unfair to those who paid for a house.

Whats your alternative then? Crying because the had choosen the less damaging way for this issue?

a) Get rid of housing altogether?

b) get rid of personal housing because it was intended for FCs from the get go?

c) invest even more dev time to fix and code a "pay again screen" for all who refunded so it could potentially be solved in whatever timeframe they have to deal with. Would be funny to see if they chosen this way and it would take a year or more to solve the spaghetti code from the lottery. Imagine the outcry of the Playerbase to the already happening outcry.

d) reroll everything from anyone in regards of housing to the starting point? Imagine the outcry of people/FCs who could upgrade their small or medium house or got a completely new plot for them or their FC.

e) reroll every bugged house again even if there were legit winners but werent shown because the lottery server didnt update the Housing server?

They had to die on one hill and they cant win not matter which one they chosen. The OF will cry and whine and stomp on the floor anyway.
The only solution is to pressure them for additional wards or instanced personal housing. Everthing else will upset people like you anyway no matter what they are gonna do.

[WillIrishclover]

Whats your alternative then? Crying because the had choosen the less damaging way for this issue?

a) Get rid of housing altogether?

b) get rid of personal housing because it was intended for FCs from the get go?

c) invest even more dev time fo fix and code a "pay again screen" for all who refunded so it could potentially be solved in whatever timeframe they have to deal with. Would be funny to see if they chosen this way and it would take a year or more to solve the spaghetti code from the lottery. Imagine the outcry of the Playerbase to the already happening outcry.

d) reroll everything from anyone in regards of housing to the starting point? Imagine the outcry of people/FCs who could upgrade their small or medium house or got a completely new plot for them or their FC.

e) reroll every bugged house again even if there were legit winners but werent shown because the lottery server didnt update the Housing server?

They had to die on one hill and they cant win not matter which one the chosen. The OF will cry and whine and stomp on the floor anyway.
The only solution is to pressure them for additional wards or instanced personal housing. Everthing else will upset people like you anyway no matter what they are gonna do.

100% this

What was square supposed to do? Yes everyone who got a 'O' plot basically can now get a free house, but every other solution would have pissed someone off, this was the only way to make sure valid winners got their houses and so the game could MOVE on from this.

you are completely right

[Aoi_Futaba]

They had to die on one hill and they cant win not matter which one the chosen. The OF will cry and whine and stomp on the floor anyway.
The only solution is to pressure them for additional wards or instanced personal housing. Everthing else will upset people like you anyway no matter what they are gonna do.

Personally I think wards should be for players and instanced islands for FCs. A place where the FC can have their own space, but wards where players can have neighbours.

[Nepentha]

How is it any way fair?

People who won a house, they have a house and 3-50 mil less gil.
People who didn’t win a house have been unable to try again for almost two months and don’t get any compensation for that, and still don’t have a house.
People who won but got bugged have a free house now.

This is unfair to the vast majority, the players with no house. And it’s unfair to those who paid for a house.

Oh lord. Look, if a handful of people get a free house because of SE's screw up, so be it. I paid full price for both the FC's house and my personal house. I am not sitting here kvetching that some people got their plots bugged, had to sit for a month waiting for SE to fix it, and were low key compensated for it by not being made to pay for the house.

PS: Life is not fair.