Housing lottery round 2

[Moonlite]

Said this months ago that the number of people we'd all be competing against would go through the roof, but nope...people just wanted a system that didn't involve camping and didn't care.

Ya'll happy now? System doing good for ya?

Yes actually it is, in comparison to what was before. Do I like competing against 100 people no. I would rather SE just put in instances and put it on my bill and be done with it. But I know all 100 people had the same chance and same amount of effort. In the broken system that will have to do.

[Seger]

Getting a house in this game feels like trying to buy a TRAVIS SCOTT AIR Max 1 on the Nike SNKRS app.

[Reinha]

Said this months ago that the number of people we'd all be competing against would go through the roof, but nope...people just wanted a system that didn't involve camping and didn't care.

Ya'll happy now? System doing good for ya?

Nope. Hated the idea all the years people spoke about it. Hated it when it was announced. Hated it when I couldn't get a house from Ishgard. Still hate it now that I'm bidding against 100 people exactly like I said would happen. I would rather walk up to a house and just buy it when a new ward releases or 24 hours has passed since a house was demolished, like before.

[Erinellza]

Nope. Hated the idea all the years people spoke about it. Hated it when it was announced. Hated it when I couldn't get a house from Ishgard. Still hate it now that I'm bidding against 100 people exactly like I said would happen. I would rather walk up to a house and just buy it when a new ward releases or 24 hours has passed since a house was demolished, like before.

Exactly. Some of us never asked for this bs but people cried so here we are...

[ijuakos_xqwzts]

FFS, one of the mediums I was trying to bid for had 66 people on it already, with the remaining mediums that I knew about and checked today being in the upper 20's, lower 30's. If I was one of those hardcore grinding players, maybe I could afford a large house in shorter time. My FC apartment is already super packed with all the stuff I've collected; I need something larger than a "small" house. Obviously demand is a LOT higher than the supply. Unfortunately, nothing short of people leaving over this shipwreck will change their mind and then they'll probably blame "not enough subscribing players to fund development" as their excuse for inaction.

[Amenara]

Hopes and dreams for the small plot I bid on in the middle of nowhere in the Goblet. I was the 3rd bidder but I imagine that will shoot up as we get closer to the lotto drawing.

[Avoidy]

Said this months ago that the number of people we'd all be competing against would go through the roof, but nope...people just wanted a system that didn't involve camping and didn't care.

Ya'll happy now? System doing good for ya?

I agree somewhat, on the idea that lotto is inherently flawed and a poor way to address the issue long-term. However, I think the only reason it's this bad right now is because every individual player is stuck buying from 6 wards, while 18 FC wards are just sitting empty. When the system launched and Empyreum opened, the crowding was not this bad even on individual wards. If they'd opened every ward to individual purchases, they could have had a pretty healthy system for several cycles until things got to this point. Instead they did the dumbest thing possible and only really made 6 wards available, so we're seeing pic related on the second bidding cycle when this shouldn't have been an issue for a long time. Mediums in empyreum FC zones with 0 bids, while mediums in individual wards of pretty much any other housing area are exploding. Solo FCs built with this problem in mind are about 3 weeks old now, and soon they'll absorb the FC wards, effectively making the difference between an individual ward and an FC ward completely moot. Square continues to say nothing on this, while spending all of their time taking the game down for pvp issues.



The frustrating part is the system itself would've been fine for a while, but Square just made one braindead addition to it that ruined everything at the last minute. In the long term, the lottery system would have ended up like this. But we arrived here in one month because square sped it up by being stupid about individual ward allocations. Saying this as someone who's always just wanted instanced housing, for whatever it's worth. Lotto's not perfect, but it shouldn't have been this bad this soon.

[Alaray]

Said this months ago that the number of people we'd all be competing against would go through the roof, but nope...people just wanted a system that didn't involve camping and didn't care.

Ya'll happy now? System doing good for ya?

Both systems suck and housing needs to be redesigned from the ground, though lottery is moderately better than competing with 10+ other individuals, clicking a placard for hours with a few auto-clicking bots in the mix.

Least I can drop the gil and see if I win rather than devote multiple hours of my free time to lose.

[Shibi]

The frustrating part is the system itself would've been fine for a while, but Square just made one braindead addition to it that ruined everything at the last minute. In the long term, the lottery system would have ended up like this. But we arrived here in one month because square sped it up by being stupid about individual ward allocations.

Just wait for six months down the track when the entire server is going after 1 house.

I got my FC large, but long term a raffle for a haus is the stupidest idea out.

[Mika_Zahard]

I find all these bot clicking apologists both funny and pathethic.

Glad SE decided to not benefit people that are autoclicking or camping a placard for an untold amount of time for a house. And thankfully relocations dont have priority anymore!