Could the plot/ward text bug be the cause?

[Greyhawk]

What you are reading is something that took place before this debacle took place. Has nothing to do with the epic failure of winning number zero. The post you were looking at is below. The issue appears more database and code related.

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...93#post5895593

Edit/reply: Beings we can only make 20 posts a day and I'm already limited by this one single post for today (gg SQE), to answer you below - yeah, I realize it was made during the lottery purchase time, how else could they purchase an entry? The entries aren't the issue - the results of the lottery are. Again, all we can do is speculate because we have zero information on how anything works, but just a text issue on results is relatively easy to fix and that's just a visual issue they can fix on the backend. The winning bids are a completely different beast and the database entries for those are what's screwed up.
Just my take on it. It makes me want to log in and go check the opposite of where I was, but I'm so fed up with this crapfest, I don't wanna log in to even play.