Thank you, lottery

[Jojoya]

I'd rather camp a placard. I've lost 3 lotteries on medium houses, and I haven't checked yet, but there's probably none left now in any of the areas' personal wards. Every lottery cycle that goes by gets worse and worse, as fewer and fewer houses are available, and more and more people bidding on the smaller number of what's left.

You'd genuinely be happier giving up 15-25 hours that could be used to play other parts of the game just to lose out on 3 houses to bots and leave you in the same position as the lottery has so far?

Think hard on that. Perhaps you're someone with lots of extra time on your hands to waste but most players aren't.

It's still not the lottery that's causing the problem. It's the lack of supply to meet demand, whether that demand is to get a house at all or to get a specific size/plot location. It's not going to matter what purchase system SE implements, there will be players who are left unhappy unless SE fixes supply.

I think this will continue for JP/NA/EU new servers too.

JP isn't getting new worlds. They're just redistributing some of the existing worlds to a new data center to ease log in congestion.

SE is going to have to tread carefully with the new NA/EU worlds. Data center travel will not be the amazing game changer that some make it out to be. There's a lot to be learned from both Materia and from the current state of the housing system under the lottery. There's no incentive to leave friends behind if you're moving to a worse situation for the sake of benefits that won't materialize for several month.