No longer want to play if I can't get a house

[Atamis]

I tried the lotto and lost. No biggie. Tried the lotto on old wards... Open to Free Company only.

Guess i'll just unsub.

[ryouma17]

[Raim]

Says you started in 2011. It took you this long to come to this decision? Or did you just not want one for years when they were easily available?

[Absimiliard]

Says you started in 2011. It took you this long to come to this decision? Or did you just not want one for years when they were easily available?

I believe, for much of the player-base that's been holding off, it was never about them being easily available. A lot of people were just waiting for Ishgard housing. And now that it's available, ... well, good luck.

[catacombs]

I feel the same way

[Ravor]

I already give up on housing matter on day 1 and this lottery didnt change much of my matter regarding that, i respect the new system but i just cant particpate in housing because it will keep you subbed, cant handle that stress

[Stormpeaks]

I mean the chance of getting a personal now is basically 0, if you got hit by the "0 participants" bug in Ishgard or if you just lost, you are basically doomed because every other plot will be overwhelmed with tickets, especially in Mist or LB, so yeah, except if you have a dummy FC to bid with, dont expect any house.

[Burmecia]

I mean the chance of getting a personal now is basically 0

I'm sorry but this made me smile, dammit... :'D

[Somnolence]

Imagine seeing all the cool houses and wanting to decorate your own. Sorry, this portion of a game is not available to you because you picked old, very populated server

[Colt47]

So to sum up all the issues with how they did this:

1) FCs want mediums and larges, private buyers want smalls and maybe mediums for the most part. So by using even distribution across all the wards they artificially restricted housing to private buyers. This resulted in 33 people stacking on one house in ward 19 at plot 1.
2) The housing lotto should not have been done per property for private buying. They should have had a stand setup where everyone lottos for a house of a specific size. That way multiple winners can be announced and they get assigned one of the homes randomly. Even if you don't get that plot that is right next to the market board, at least you have a higher chance of obtaining a home than what they did, which forced most people to naively bid on the same few plots.

Those were the two big issues with how this lotto was done. I mean there's unsold smalls all over in the lower wards.