You think its bad now? Lottery will make it worse.

[SanadaX]

Why? Due to the fact you can enter the lottery with alts. What? You really believe people won't do this? Why wouldn't you? Think about winning a house on an alt and hitting the secondary market.. fuck crafting ever again. You'd be rolling in gil. Not to mention the influx of players currently going on and while it is dope to see all new faces... Once they level up and now have a desire to get a house... It is a fucking wrap for the homeless.
With the current system while it is total fucking ass (Got my house already) At least those with crazy will power and grit and just grab one... Once thats gone.... You're going to be wishing it was back because of the reason stated above... Screencap this.

[Bladehawk]

What makes you think they will allow more then one ticket to exist on an account at one time? Did they already release a detailed plan on how the lottery would work?

[SanadaX]

Look at how the housing has been this entire time. What about those who roleplay with multiple toons who ALREADY have multiple homes? Don't start coping just yet.

[Jojoya]

Why? Due to the fact you can enter the lottery with alts. What? You really believe people won't do this? Why wouldn't you? Think about winning a house on an alt and hitting the secondary market.. fuck crafting ever again. You'd be rolling in gil. Not to mention the influx of players currently going on and while it is dope to see all new faces... Once they level up and now have a desire to get a house... It is a fucking wrap for the homeless.
With the current system while it is total fucking ass (Got my house already) At least those with crazy will power and grit and just grab one... Once thats gone.... You're going to be wishing it was back because of the reason stated above... Screencap this.

One personal house per world/account will still remain in place. No use entering on alts when you really want the house on your main and your characters can't share a house.

It's a harder to sell a house to other players when you purchase it as a personal house because you'd be limited to relocators that want that specific plot. If you end up with the crappiest plot in Goblet, your investment just failed.

Players using shell FCs to flip won't be able to compete for a house in the personal wards.

People are really dumb when it comes to lotteries. They only think "I might get lucky this time and if I buy more tickets I'll be even luckier!" instead of thinking about how the lottery works.

If there are 5000 entries and you enter on 4 characters, that's still 4996 chances that someone else will win and only 4 chances you will (assuming a winner is even guaranteed). You haven't improved your chances enough to make a worthwhile difference.

What makes you think they will allow more then one ticket to exist on an account at one time? Did they already release a detailed plan on how the lottery would work?

We don't know if they will or won't. They might feel that players with multiple alts (and more gil) are more invested in the game and so deserve the chance to buy those additional tickets. It's still not going to bypass the one personal house per world rule.

If they do allow multiple entries per account, the player would have to come up with the entry fee separately for each character. They've already told us there will be a substantial deposit required to enter, and a substantial penalty if we win then fail to purchase a house.

Most players will stick to a single entry because there's no real advantage to additional tickets and they're going to have a hard time coming up with the additional entry fees.

Look at how the housing has been this entire time. What about those who roleplay with multiple toons who ALREADY have multiple homes? Don't start coping just yet.

Which can't be done anymore thanks to the one personal house per world rule enacted over 3 years ago. Someone who has multiple houses for RP purposes is highly unlikely to use shell FCs to get more.

[Divinemights]

What makes you think they will allow more then one ticket to exist on an account at one time? Did they already release a detailed plan on how the lottery would work?

Well, takes Balmung for example since it has highest population in which at bare minimum, it is safe to assume there are 1,000 players looking for house.
Under current reclaim system, if you want to get a house, your competition is usually at average against other 10s because not all other 990 players will want to camp.
Now under this "lottery" if one account can only submit once, you are still going to against other 999 people which further lower your chance of getting one.
Understand the logic now?

[anguel]

What makes you think they will allow more then one ticket to exist on an account at one time? Did they already release a detailed plan on how the lottery would work?

always make me smile to see a naive player, its cute but far from reality, many MANY player who already own multiple house are doing it for a very serious purpose, ooh no no no not RP lol sometime you see someone coming and say "hey they doing RP maybe ?" but no, have you ever tryed to check these discord about "reselling house" ? no ? hmm? you should it tell EXACTLY the reason why these ppl do that (short story its related to RMT), so yeah believe me just a "1 ticket per account" wont stop them if these individuals WANT to buy all the house, they most likely will

[DPZ2]

Even if it's limited to 1 character/account, hundreds of different people will enter the lottery for one plot which is worse than competing with a few placard clickers.

Explains the meaning of the term "Lottery" ...

[Arcalithe]

Even if it's limited to 1 character/account, hundreds of different people will enter the lottery for one plot which is worse than competing with a few placard clickers.

Can't say I agree with this, lol.

As someone who sat clicking for hours and days to get my home, I wouldn't do it ever again because it was terrible for my health and mind. I got incredibly lucky and I would never want to do that again. I wished multiple times while clicking that placard for some sort of lottery system where my chances of getting it are lower but I don't have to give up some incredibly random amount of time out of my life to do so.

I'm glad it's going this way. It's just the reality of having way more players than available plots that makes housing so hard to break into. So having it be something that can happen in the background instead of making someone camp a plot if they want to get in is way better.