Housing Pre Maintenance Hot-Fix Bids Weren't Counted [Working Theory]

[PrimusPalus]

Hi all, this is my current working theory after talking with many other FC leaders and friends on the server who have pretty much agreed from what we're seeing so far. Sorry if it's possibly wrong or upsetting, but I just wanted to share and see what others think:

My current working theory around FF14 housing is that Pre Maintenance Hot-Fix bids were not counted, and post Hot-Fix bids were actually counted. This means that if you put in a bid in the first few days - even if you're the only bidders - then you'll still lose that plot because your bids weren't counted and it defaulted to 0.

Everyone I've spoken to who bid post Hot-Fix, has actually won their plot (assuming they had no competition of course). While many personals and FCs who bid before the Hot-Fix (and had no competition unless they also bid before the Hot-Fix), have all lost their bids to 0.

So the error may in fact have to do with something not translating well from the maintenance fix and thus making all early bids not count whatsoever.

This is also a bit more problematic because that means if a house had 10 bids total and 6 bids were placed before that period - then 1 bid that won was from bids #7-10 - then that's definitely not fair to those initial pre period bids that lost, but they would never really know that their bids weren't even contenders in the first place.

*Also most people that seems to be affected are FCs who bid on empty properties and they're the only bidders. Every FC I've spoken to who bid pre hot fix got a 0, and every FC that bid after the hot fix on an empty plot without contenders got it.

If this is true then the most 'fair' thing to do would be to remove the houses of those who even won, and then redo the drawing of the lottery numbers of the total of those who submitted. But that's a big L for those who got a house and feel great right now. So it seems like a lose-lose situation.