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

[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.