What exactly IS the problem? You can tell us!

[Stormfur]

When the housing lottery bug first happened, there were a bunch of armchair programmers saying this and that, when the real issue was just how the information went from one server to another.

And though he didn't have to, YoshiP took time out to explain what was happening, step by step in a way that we all understood.

Even with Crystal Conflict in PVP, they didn't HAVE to redo it, but they did, because the old version, despite them throwing everything and the kitchen sink at it in terms of rewards to get people interested, the very core of the thing was broken from the start and no amount of band-aids could fix it. So they had to scrap it and start over.

So why not do the same for housing? Tell us what the problem is. Server architecture problems? Too many players even for instanced housing? Something else? (I'm the farthest thing from an armchair programmer so I have no idea). I'd like to think they can be honest and open with us and admit that there are problems. Nobody's perfect. But I've never heard a word about what's really wrong with housing.. other than just guesses.

[Markfresh]

[Oizen]

The experts are the ones who made this mess in the first place.

[Masenko]

They're probably trying to figure out how to tie housing to NFTs.

[Rufalus]

They've explained a few tech things in the past. Restrictions on the number of housing wards is similar to any other limited thing like dresser space and inventory space. In all cases it's not a lack of data storage but rather a server performance bottleneck.

If wards kept generating automatically to meet demand, they couldn't guarantee a lag-free player experience due to the server strain of running so many ward instances simultaneously. Every time they add wards it must be considered carefully and tested beforehand.

Similar rule applies to why they can't just add hundreds more dresser slots. They need to consider the performance cost of many players accessing that amount of data simultaneously. Player inventories have to be backed up at regular intervals to ensure there's no rollback in case of a disconnect, etc. Lots of annoying management of server resources that prevent them from just adding lots and lots of stuff people want.

[dspguy]

The same experts that brought us FFXIV v1.0? At least in that version, when you rolled on loot, there was no rolling a zero.

[Theox]

This HAS to be satire. Please say it is...

[SuperSxyNerd]

Another thread batching about the same thing zzzz

[IanR]

they wont tell us probably all the winner plot has the shadow "0" participaters. So if they disclose the truth they may have to rollback all the entries,

so they will keep playing the game of pretending they are the respnsible developer.

btw everytime they say please enjoy the housing system, it makes me sick

[Themarvin]

before bursting into tears they already told that.