Quote Originally Posted by Krotoan View Post
It seems you'd rather continue to try and say there was justification in being excessively mad for a problem that likely wasn't possible to test in a timely manner than acknowledge that this was a big problem that they then apologized for and are in the process of fixing fairly and expediently.
Honestly, if they can't test it in a timely manner, I rather they just delay it to 6.2. Or a slow rolling out as previously suggested. While these two methods will inevitably still create frustration and draw criticism, I can tell you with 100% certainty it wouldn't have drawn as much criticism than this. Another alternative option was to introduce lottery earlier, before ishgard housing is put in the game, and see if it works in earlier wards. That would be good testing on a smaller sample size that wouldn't have created as much grief.

I believe we have shown that we are able to deal with delays. We were able to handle ew being delayed, as disappointing that was. When there has been around a half a decade wait for new housing, and they shit the bed, people are gonna be mad.

At the end of the day, this is the lottery system's first impression on the playerbase, and they messed up big time. First impressions are everything. It's possible to recover from bad first impressions, like 1.0. But are the housing team gonna learn from this and try to making housing less frustrating to make up for this mistake. I doubt it. To me, an apology and a fix will not suffice. I want to see actual improvements to make up for it. Perhaps I am too idealistic.