OCE does not need the lottery system on day one.

[DixieBellOCE]

Please, for the love of god reconsider this.

OCE does not have the same problems that other datacenters have with congested housing and massive competition for plots.

We do not need the lottery system straight away, its going to cause more problems and delay owning a house for even more time.

I gave up a house on Tonberry to transfer to OCE and i feel scammed, we shouldn't have had to wait 3 months to buy a house, if people didn't want to transfer over then that's their problem.

Open housing early on the regular FCFS system for the people that have waited MONTHS for housing, its only fair.

[LaylaTsarra]

I agree but they've obviously decided to lotto everything and I feel for those who actually gave up housing expecting the FCFS option when they arrived. Good luck I'm hoping to get at least a small for my FC although chancing trying to get one in a prime location might be taking a risk cause i believe even on Sophia the houses will all be gone after the first round.

[Moonlite]

If you haven't figured it out they have trouble doing two things at once. It costs money and takes some skill. So easier to blanket release the system.

[Shibi]

I really feel bad for the people who gave up homes to help our new DC. Especially those on Sophia and Ravana. This is the worst descision to make for us. It will hurt the DC a lot.

If you haven't figured it out they have trouble doing two things at once. It costs money and takes some skill. So easier to blanket release the system.

All they had to do was open housing for us at the last patch. No extra work.

[Nafreyu]

While I gave up a house to transfer from Tonberry and deliberately chose Zurvan predicting it would have a lesser population but still maintain all the benefits of Duty and Roulette access on Materia, I'm definitely regretting the decision and bitter about how everything has panned out.

We weren't lied to and it was assumptions on my, and probably others ends about how things would pan out but I didn't expect that housing for us would be delayed so long and then the terms to access them change to full lottery, locked into one bid at a time, for 5 days.

Either way, taking a step back and looking at the big picture - the fact there is even a limited number of houses in a game where the player cap far exceeds is the most stupid concept I have ever heard.

Best of luck to all those that choose to continue paying in Euro's for... this.

/laughs in Ertswhile Sanctuary/Pariah's Pinnacle/Pantherfang Chapel.

[DixieBellOCE]

We weren't lied to and it was assumptions on my, and probably others ends about how things would pan out but I didn't expect that housing for us would be delayed so long

Well at first they did say OCE was comming out with 6.1

Then they announced OCE release on 26th jan 'two weeks earlier than expected'.

The conclusion that everyone drew from that is that 6.1 was only a few weeks away, and that would have been fine.

If they had been direct and said housing was 4 months away from OCE release i would have stayed on JP and enjoyed the last few months playing instead of sitting in limsa bored out of my mind while they take my money.

[Duskane]

you would have been bored in Elemental anyway
jack all to do regardless

[Sarevok_Thordin]

Everyone gets the same now, not just the advantage for those able to book holidays from work.

[Deveryn]

Lottery was always going to be the way forward. They only ever said they would have the ability to toggle FCFS.

[Hasrat]

The question I would have is whether or not players are able to see how many lotto entries there are for a plot of land. Arguably, there may not be enough players in each world to fill up every plot in every ward in every zone for a good while. As such, giving players the means to search around for a plot of land that nobody has entered the lottery for would at least allow most to get into housing by the end of the first lotto round.