So, what now? Lotteries with 150+ bids until... when?

[Thaciscokidd]

And this makes the Lottery bad, HOW?

It doesn't make it bad, it just opened housing up more than people realized it would.

Like Sairys put it, its easier to casually drop buy and drop a bid and check on it in a couple of days vs how it use to be when you had to guess window openings or stay and click all day.

[hagare]

you don't like it? Let's go with a tender system.
Put in how you're willing to pay for a lot. Bind of course

[Stormpeaks]

It doesn't make it bad, it just opened housing up more than people realized it would.

Like Sairys put it, its easier to casually drop buy and drop a bid and check on it in a couple of days vs how it use to be when you had to guess window openings or stay and click all day.

I agree 100%, getting a 0.01% chance 3 times a month because the lottery cycles are extremely long and there are 150 bids on your plot is so much more fun than just camping for a few hours when a house comes up, what a blast

[IkaraGreydancer]

I will never stop laughing at the fact that the playerbase has been BEGGING for a lottery system on these forums for YEARS. They finally cave and give you all exactly what you asked for, and now you realize you didn't actually want one after all and are pulling the classic kindergarten tantrum because now you want the old way back. This is exactly why they sometimes hesitate to give us what we want. Because people themselves don't even know what they want.

You do realize not every was asking for this right? Don't lump us in whlith those who were

[SweetestLily]

You do realize not every was asking for this right? Don't lump us in whlith those who were

I should have said the MAJORITY of the playerbase, because apparently those against it didn't speak up nearly as much as those for it until NOW.

[Atelier-Bagur]

I agree 100%, getting a 0.01% chance 3 times a month because the lottery cycles are extremely long and there are 150 bids on your plot is so much more fun than just camping for a few hours when a house comes up, what a blast

"camping for a few hours when a house comes up"


....excuse me but do you not HEAR yourself when you make such a statement?

"Hey Jimmy! how do you want to spend your precious time in FFXIV today?"
"Oh I figure to just waste my whole session just sitting in this one spot clicking this one thing"
"....I-I..mean...but what about the rest... of the ga-"
"No! This is funner"

Yeah...camping is sooooo much more enjoyable, get out of here with that nonsense...

[Breakbeat]

Last night when I made the 'rounds' of all five housing zones to place my bid, I found the following:

- Dozens of plots that had 2, 3 or 4 bids on them, at the very end of the entry cycle.
- The maximum number of entries on a plot was 58. I avoided that because...
- ...identical plots in other wards had less than ten bids on them.

In the end I picked a plot that had three other bids on it, mine being the fourth.

I guess participation varies wildly based on server? That's fine, I can understand that. Stating things like '150-1 odds or much worse' is hyperbolic, though. Did you even look around? Places like Empyrium were rife with open plots and low participation. I visited some two dozen open plots in one ward there, and at least half of them had fewer than ten bids. At the tail end of the cycle (2am-ish, PDT, six hours before entries closed.)

[Stormpeaks]

"camping for a few hours when a house comes up"


....excuse me but do you not HEAR yourself when you make such a statement?

"Hey Jimmy! how do you want to spend your precious time in FFXIV today?"
"Oh I figure to just waste my whole session just sitting in this one spot clicking this one thing"
"....I-I..mean...but what about the rest... of the ga-"
"No! This is funner"

Yeah...camping is sooooo much more enjoyable, get out of here with that nonsense...

So losing a house for months because there are 100+ bids on a plot is more fun ? You do you.

[Gemina]

I'm kind of curious how those pining for instanced housing would feel if they stepped into their instanced home and noticed that they can't get any of the indoor glitches to work when trying to decorate. You know, because it's entirely different content, and the devs didn't bake those glitches in.

[Atelier-Bagur]

So losing a house for months because there are 100+ bids on a plot is more fun ? You do you.

Yeah, because anything is better than not being able to play the gosh darn game, you know....the thing I'm paying a subscription for. What a great way to spend your time, clicking that one placard over and over again like a maniac.