Housing Roulette was an absolute trash idea.

[magitekLuna]

yes it was trash but you all to blame for it. like if its so bad (and it is) just wait half a year AND DO NOT TAKE PART IN IT but make it really vocal for the reasons . as far as you take part in it no one will give half a fuck for you.

[Corvus_V]

yes it was trash but you all to blame for it. like if its so bad (and it is) just wait half a year AND DO NOT TAKE PART IN IT but make it really vocal for the reasons . as far as you take part in it no one will give half a fuck for you.

When I said this game is dragged forward by its community, I meant it. Getting people to talk about it so that they would have to flat out ignore it as feedback is more feasible than getting everyone to just quit.

[magitekLuna]

When I said this game is dragged forward by its community, I meant it. Getting people to talk about it so that they would have to flat out ignore it as feedback is more feasible than getting everyone to just quit.

i don't see it as such. if you use the system why will yoshi work extra 10 min on a better system? now jokes aside the biger problem is yoshi him self. he want a system of LIMITED HOUSEING in witch there never be a house for all the players.

[Corvus_V]

i don't see it as such. if you use the system why will yoshi work extra 10 min on a better system? now jokes aside the biger problem is yoshi him self. he want a system of LIMITED HOUSEING in witch there never be a house for all the players.

Mainly because not trying won't serve you at all. I'm not gonna say "give up." because not participating in the lottery system doesn't really affect Square Enix, or Yoshi P, it just ensures you have no chance. The only thing that will hurt them is for people to unsubscribe from the game, and I doubt people will do that, mostly because of the community. If my friends all quit at once, I'd also quit, as I've meant every word of what I said in my previous posts; me wanting to participate with them is the only thing keeping me around. Other than that, if they get bad press they'll either have to address it during interviews or live letters, or it'll be obvious that they're ignoring it, and then maybe people will actually understand that they simply don't give a shit what anyone thinks. They have to hit a tipping point where they decide, but people also need to stop making shit up on their behalf as if there's no way housing could be served to everyone in a way that's acceptable to them.

[Seraphor]

My dedication of clicking placards for what amounted to actual days in total got me nothing. No, I got my house because they turned on auto-demolition and after 45 days a ton of houses got demolished and I simply went up to a random placard about half a day later and immediately purchased the plot.

I do not wish for anyone to go through what I once did: Clicking a placard for 13 hours straight, deciding to take a quick bathroom break, and coming back and finding the plot sold to someone else.

This is exactly my experience too.
I managed to get two houses on different occasions under the old system, but they weren't through dedication, both times I stumbled on a vacant plot with no one else there. Pure luck.

And now I have one in Ishgard. Second lottery attempt, 2 bids, 50/50 chance and I won. Pretty much the same scenario.

There are multiple rounds to the lottery, try again and roll your dice again.

[Jokerz_93]

If this problem isn’t a Japan problem, sorry guys but you’ll never seen the lottery system reworked (unless some minor fix bug).
I don’t remember when something written in the NA/EU forum was taken in consideration by SE.

And, jokes aside, lottery system is the last housing problem but instead to rework all the system SE spent more than one year to develop that shitty island. This should ring a bell…

I know your complaints are right but with SE is a waste of time.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

Supply is still the bigger problem.

[LianaThorne]

What if we took this fervor and came to the conclusion that wards aren't the god damn answer, never were, and wont help anyone in the long run?
Why cant you guys just complain about this shit with the same determination you whined about male Viera?

Instanced housing is 100% the only solution. They proved they were capable of doing it with Island Sanctuary, and they were always capable of it because they had to have accounted for it when they made it so you could get a house, an apartment, an fc house, and an fc apartment all on one character. It was literally never an issue for them from the absolute start, they are just being lazy. Christ.

Lotteries werent the solution, it was the path of least resistance for them to avoid people complaining about placard spamming, which was totally mundane UNTIL you owned a small, then it was ideal because you didnt have to compete with everyone and their mother for a larger sized house, or you could even coordinate with your friends to take homes from them. Or house trade, which sucked, but still left you with "If I try hard enough, I can eventually own a large." But you know what? None of that actually matters! Know why? Because there aren't enough of them to meet demand, and there never will be until everyone can own one if they have the basic gil amount to own it. They could add 20 more wards, dead empty, and it STILL wouldn't be enough. Why dont you guys get that? Just do the math! Average the bids on each one, count the houses per ward, and multiply; maybe even subtract the goblet plots for good measure. No one wants the smalls, so wards are stupid! So please, please just make threads about that instead of demanding more wards, FFS.

You're acting like no one has tried which is so far from the truth. Plenty of people have complained about how much instanced housing is needed. You can literally search the threads on here to see it for yourself or go through my post history if you want. I'm in several of them.

The reality is: The devs don't want to do instanced housing. They want the ward system and aren't willing to budge. The ward system is also their way of ensuring people stay subbed via the demo system, as predatory as it is.

That's why we continue to get compromises (IS) or new wards or changes to placard buying instead of instanced housing even when we ask for it. No amount of complaining on our end is going to solve anything if the devs are set on having the system we do.

If we were going to get instanced, we would have already or maybe it's some big surprise for 7.0. Who knows. You're right to be angry about the system but we're not to blame for the devs not wanting instanced.

[Atelier-Bagur]

What they really should do is make only FC leaders bid, and triple the amount of PRIVATE wards.

Oooorr hear me out. Instanced housing? Eh? Eeeh!?

[Atelier-Bagur]

Btw we can say the same argument for placard clicking for the many people who were salty with the old system for dedicating their time and effort AND YOU STILL LOST OUT TO THE RNG SYSTEM. Yeah that stings even worse