Such devastation... this was NOT my intention...

[Brightamethyst]

Considering some wards sold out within minutes, before people could even get through the login queues I'm not sure how this is worse. More people will have a chance, and that's more than what could be said before. RNG is still RNG, this time tho, it's not the login queue screwing you over.

Yeah. Without the lottery it's basically a guarantee that every single large and medium, and most of the smalls as well, would be gone within 5 minutes of servers coming back up. Anyone who thinks camping out and praying to the gods of RNG and login queues in the middle of the night is more fair is than a lottery is kidding themselves.

[Vahlnir]

Yeah. Without the lottery it's basically a guarantee that every single large and medium, and most of the smalls as well, would be gone within 5 minutes of servers coming back up. Anyone who thinks camping out and praying to the gods of RNG and login queues in the middle of the night is more fair is than a lottery is kidding themselves.

A lottery might be more fair, but that doesn't make it a good system at all. The chances of getting a house are already pretty slim. They are about to go even lower with a lottery because the competition is going to be even more fierce. I'm not saying what we had or have is a great system though. All of them have been terrible. It's just going to get so much worse is unless they can address the supply issue or provide true instanced housing. It's pretty sad when most free to play games handle housing better.

[linayar]

A lottery might be more fair, but that doesn't make it a good system at all. The chances of getting a house are already pretty slim. They are about to go even lower with a lottery because the competition is going to be even more fierce. I'm not saying what we had or have is a great system though. All of them have been terrible. It's just going to get so much worse is unless they can address the supply issue or provide true instanced housing. It's pretty sad when most free to play games handle housing better.

It may be lower chance, or not, depending on the number of people actually wanting a specific house as you can only choose one house at a time. At the very least, you don't have to continually click on that placard.

Also, there will be wards where the current system still exist for those who prefer that method of first click (during availability) first serve.