Lottery extended to 4/29

[sagacious]

Nine more days till the next lottery round begins. I had heard that this maintenance would fix all the problems, but it was just an extension of time. I am currently making all kinds of furniture is preparation of the opening of my ward and I will throw the biggest dance party of all time. I will have a 500k raffle to celebrate the occasion. All are invited without prejudice.

[Darisha]

Nooo why 9 days? ;-;

[HisShadowX]

Nine more days till the next lottery round begins. I had heard that this maintenance would fix all the problems, but it was just an extension of time. I am currently making all kinds of furniture is preparation of the opening of my ward and I will throw the biggest dance party of all time. I will have a 500k raffle to celebrate the occasion. All are invited without prejudice.

Are you planning on buying up an entire ward like some other people and RMT Gold Sellers have done?

Nooo why 9 days? ;-;

We weren't already pissed off so they figured whats a way to piss off even more people and just keep the anger rolling.

This is getting annoying. I just want to see if there is anything to bid on next round.

Its okay the Alts of FC Owners will be bidding on everything. I wonder how many FC Wards there will be with them using alts to buy up properties I know the Gold Sellers have been doing it.

so true... i mean i can understand it if they would do that with the day where the lucky ticket got draw... but why did they choose to push everything a bit more away? :/

Piss us off. At this point they are going to need to do instanced housing. They told us our island to lower our expectations the problem is they know this is going to piss off the consumer and they know what we want but not going to give it to us. They have seen the outrage within the community about the housing situation as it has blown up in anger at this point.

They would be foolish not to give the consumer what the consumer is expecting. Its like if they decided to keep building on FFXIV 1.0 instead of tearing it down and rebuilding and giving us something better.

Yoshi P and staff talked about he arrogance of the staff who made FFXIV 1.0 and refusing to change or give consumers what they wanted. It would be foolish to decide now to go that route and choose that fight.

[Zsolen]

This is getting annoying. I just want to see if there is anything to bid on next round.

[Darisha]

so true... i mean i can understand it if they would do that with the day where the lucky ticket got draw... but why did they choose to push everything a bit more away? :/

[Illmaeran]

so true... i mean i can understand it if they would do that with the day where the lucky ticket got draw... but why did they choose to push everything a bit more away? :/

To give themselves more time to figure out the cause(s) of the issue and resolve them. Only they know how deep into their code the problem is, how long it will take to find all the various connections it/they have, how long it/they will take to fix, and then how long they need to test to make sure there are no issues with future lotteries. Giving themselves another nine days is a wise move "Under-promise and over-deliver". If it doesn't take all nine days then we'll be happier they got it done faster. If it does, then we were told to expect it to be that long.

[sagacious]

Are you planning on buying up an entire ward like some other people and RMT Gold Sellers have done?



We weren't already pissed off so they figured whats a way to piss off even more people and just keep the anger rolling.



Its okay the Alts of FC Owners will be bidding on everything. I wonder how many FC Wards there will be with them using alts to buy up properties I know the Gold Sellers have been doing it.

Alts can get into the lottery yes but there's only one winner and only one alt can own a personnel while the main get the FC house. Don't be so alarmist, alts are not a problem gold sellers and clones are.

[sagacious]

To give themselves more time to figure out the cause(s) of the issue and resolve them. Only they know how deep into their code the problem is, how long it will take to find all the various connections it/they have, how long it/they will take to fix, and then how long they need to test to make sure there are no issues with future lotteries. Giving themselves another nine days is a wise move "Under-promise and over-deliver". If it doesn't take all nine days then we'll be happier they got it done faster. If it does, then we were told to expect it to be that long.

Don't forget when the code is fixed time needs to be given to those winners to pay the plot payment or reject the plot. Ofcourse if you kept your money in like I did just accept ...... That is included in the nine days.

[HisShadowX]

Alts can get into the lottery yes but there's only one winner and only one alt can own a personnel while the main get the FC house. Don't be so alarmist, alts are not a problem gold sellers and clones are.

I know FC's that have a second account just to buy new Properties thats also a major problem. I know one botter on my server who used to get it into it with my old FC and my FC hated him because he used to give out gold to random new players. When the botter heard my FC was hating him, he said he found it strange because our FC owner was also a famous botter on the server and ran numerous accounts to buy up properties in Shirogane.

[Heavenchild]

To be honest I was always against a lottery system but a lot of people asked for that very loudly. Now we have the mess the people asked for. Now it is like I said before. There is no real chance to get a house in the end. For most people it just turns out in endless waiting without their money. And I think a lot a resellers tried to get all the good fc plots with 0 entrys. The 30 days rule is much too short. So they can still sell the houses via (fake)FCs. The person who buys it just have to wait 30 days until the process is done. A time, that too many people will just accept to wait to get their plot 'save'. Yes it's forbidden in the terms of service. But who will controll this? People will go on. I made other suggestions for the housing issue but at least they did what the majority ask for.

And I am no fan of instanced housing, too. One of the cool things of the housing is the fact that you have those housing districts. That you can visit other people's houses and so on. In my eyes instanced housing sounds..., mmh..., how to say that..., just more lonely and boring. And it would take away a lot of value from the houses in people's mind. People are so much interested in that stuff because it's rare an special. So in my opinion we just needed two things. Some more wards and plots (or servers), because all the new players, and some new rules to stop the resellers. Now we have a system of waiting that makes it more complicated and still the reseller problem.

But that's just my opinion. :3