Housing!! Do you Like the New Way?

[AngeliouxRein]

The lottery part isn’t what I have problem with, it’s the way they split the wards and lack of said wards. They literally just handed bots entire wards with no competition instead of realizing most people, including FC house owners, want a private house. They should’ve never did it that way, especially since they didn’t even add in more wards to help private house owners. If they pull a foolish moment and see the bots as players and think “It’S wOrKiNg As InTeNdEd…” it’s just going to make housing in this game an even worst disaster. I just don’t get how even mobile games can give everyone housing (even having a far more impressive style of building a house) and yet a game we pay for monthly struggles this bad with housing :/ .

[BucklesTrespen]

I won an Ishgard large and I’ve thought long and hard about whether I’m biased but… I think this lottery system is definitely much fairer and, frankly, better for sanity’s sake.
Before winning this house I’d camp with thirty plus people (most likely botting) and I’d have to be there for hours. Hours of time I could have been raiding, crafting, SLEEPING lol.
I do like the fire and forget lottery system.
I do think also there should be more housing, more wards, I don’t think the FC and personal split wards should have been so vastly in favor of FC considering everyone knows many, many FCs are just dummy ones with one player using the FC for subs/airships.
Disabling insta relocates and FC buying requirements is another step in the right direction. I think this game suffers from slow fixes to real problems but there have been many good steps taken in the recent past re: housing and I hope it continues.

[Vahlnir]

The lottery part isn’t what I have problem with, it’s the way they split the wards and lack of said wards. They literally just handed bots entire wards with no competition instead of realizing most people, including FC house owners, want a private house. They should’ve never did it that way, especially since they didn’t even add in more wards to help private house owners. If they pull a foolish moment and see the bots as players and think “It’S wOrKiNg As InTeNdEd…” it’s just going to make housing in this game an even worst disaster. I just don’t get how even mobile games can give everyone housing (even having a far more impressive style of building a house) and yet a game we pay for monthly struggles this bad with housing :/ .

Yeah. In their effort to curtail RMT and botting, as well as general house hoarding, they basically just opened the door for all of them nice and wide. Delaying the lottery even further (probably long after the bug is has been fixed) also gives many people more time to get their shell FCs up and running. Congrats dev team, you played yourselves. If this isn't incentive to give us full and true instanced housing then I don't know what is.

[BrokentoothMarch]

I won an Ishgard large and I’ve thought long and hard about whether I’m biased but… I think this lottery system is definitely much fairer and, frankly, better for sanity’s sake.
Before winning this house I’d camp with thirty plus people (most likely botting) and I’d have to be there for hours. Hours of time I could have been raiding, crafting, SLEEPING lol.
I do like the fire and forget lottery system.
I do think also there should be more housing, more wards, I don’t think the FC and personal split wards should have been so vastly in favor of FC considering everyone knows many, many FCs are just dummy ones with one player using the FC for subs/airships.
Disabling insta relocates and FC buying requirements is another step in the right direction. I think this game suffers from slow fixes to real problems but there have been many good steps taken in the recent past re: housing and I hope it continues.

Yes. You're biased. Moving on.

[Mihari]

The lottery is definitely much more fair than before .... but at the end, everyone should be able to have a house without any promises and we shouldn't even have to have these discussions here

How is SE saying on his promotional page for FFXIV:

Housing - Your own little slice of Eorzea

SE, after 8 years it's finally time to keep the promise