Housing next please.

[DBriggs304]

So SE, since you spent time on the other race genders, can you please make housing accessible to all of us now.

[Mightion]

So SE, since you spent time on the other race genders, can you please make housing accessible to all of us now.

Short version: Yoshi-P said it’s being discussed but don’t count on a lottery being the answer.

[Roda]

Short version: Yoshi-P said it’s being discussed but don’t count on a lottery being the answer.

Good, cause lottery isn't the answer. It's just a bandaid that moves one type of rng to another.

[Bright-Flower]

Good, cause lottery isn't the answer. It's just a bandaid that moves one type of rng to another.

It certainly isn't the solution, but it would be a welcome measure in the meantime that should theoretically be easier to implement. Still rng but it lets people just put in their gil and wait to see what happens (and get refunded if they don't get it) rather than having people camping plots for hours. Not perfect but far better IMO than the current situation.

[_Koneko_]

they would have to free up all the houses and wards being held hostage by 1 person for that happen

then again they kinda proved they have no intention of doing that when they let people get away with their massive holdings and only applied the rules to effect after it was added

[Sotaris]

they would have to free up all the houses and wards being held hostage by 1 person for that happen

then again they kinda proved they have no intention of doing that when they let people get away with their massive holdings and only applied the rules to effect after it was added

Even if they would retroactively remove all grandfathered houses, it will not fix the core issue.
Houses would still be unavailable for the masses.

[_Koneko_]

perhaps not sotaris but it would help i've seen several wards on my server owned by the same tag

[Sotaris]

perhaps not sotaris but it would help i've seen several wards on my server owned by the same tag

So say 50 houses get freed up on your server. They would be gone in 5 minutes (if we ignore the rng timer for sake of argument).
So 50 players out of 100s or 1000s on your server could have a house but there will still be a huge demand and little supply.

[Ilyrian]

They would be gone in 5 minutes

When the Shirogane lots opened I think it was actually less than 5 minutes >.<