Is the new housing notice saying you can keep your money and get the house?

[Tigerlilley]

Am I reading this right?
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For winning participants who already received a gil refund due to the “Winning Lottery Number of 0” error

Once lottery data has been restored, some participants may discover that they had, in fact, won the lottery, despite already receiving a refund due to the lottery number error. Even if your deposit was refunded due to this system error, your ability to finalize the purchase of a won plot will remain unaffected.
　
In patch 6.2 we plan to implement an NPC by which you may voluntarily return the deposit you were accidentally refunded.
As these housing lottery issues have been significant and caused great stress and frustration in many players, we have no intention of performing a data rollback to forcibly rescind any refunded gil. We will make an announcement regarding the voluntary return of housing deposits once the NPC in question is ready to be implemented.
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So we should all go get our refunds now in case we won? Then we can have both house and money?

[Atreides]

I doubt that people affected by the bug get a free house if that happens there while be a whole other shitstorm on the rise.

[IdowhatIwant]

I doubt that people affected by the bug get a free house if that happens there while be a whole other shitstorm on the rise.

Nope that is what is says.

SE is amazing for doing this specially when they know the game is over saturated with gil. Great job, I expected nothing less of SE than to do more unfair BS and continue to make piss poor decisions.

[RicaRuin]

Yeah, unfortunately, it reads like free house. I fear that no one will make use of the NPC to just... pour Gil into nothingness when there isn't any advantage for them.

Between this and the fact that the FC wards won't open up for private in the next cycle, I see the next discussion coming...

[Atreides]

They should instead add an npc where winners of a house can reclaim their gil to make it fair. Not the other way around no one will dump their gil on a npc for nothing in return, they just take the free house.

[rainichan]

SE was presented with a fun issue though: do we roll back characters a whole month who took the gil back because they weren't sure what to do when they got a 0 Wins bug? You'd have some really pissed off players having an entire month rolled back and that crapstorm would be worse than "well, if you've already done so, we're not going to make you pay it back but you can if you want and voluntarily give the gil up in 6.2." and them keeping their gil if they so wish.

[Atreides]

SE was presented with a fun issue though: do we roll back characters a whole month who took the gil back because they weren't sure what to do when they got a 0 Wins bug? You'd have some really pissed off players having an entire month rolled back and that crapstorm would be worse than "well, if you've already done so, we're not going to make you pay it back but you can if you want and voluntarily give the gil up in 6.2." and them keeping their gil if they so wish.

I think the solution would be to unclaim all "0 bug" houses and make people bid on them again.
Took me 3 seconds to come up with that.

[RicaRuin]

SE was presented with a fun issue though: do we roll back characters a whole month who took the gil back because they weren't sure what to do when they got a 0 Wins bug? You'd have some really pissed off players having an entire month rolled back and that crapstorm would be worse than "well, if you've already done so, we're not going to make you pay it back but you can if you want and voluntarily give the gil up in 6.2." and them keeping their gil if they so wish.

I think that there are ways of taking a specific amount of Gil from a character without rolling them back fully. The one-time item restoration can add an item back to your inventory (or even give you a different item when you messed up token purchases) without changing anything else.

[Voross]

I guess MMO's are just cursed, people who quit WoW due to Blizzards incompetence and out of touch decisions now get the same thing here.

Same clowns, different circus.

[Lecru]

I like how people are in this thread whining and moaning over people effected by the 0'd out housing because they had to pay for a house, meanwhile those effected haven't gotten theirs. Yet somehow this puts this out like they were effected in any way other than actually having to pay. They couldn't find a way to FORCE people to pay for the plot. Instead of that winner being screwed out AGAIN, they are giving them the plot and giving them a chance later to VOLUNTARILY pay it back. IT's really not that big of a deal considering this F up has lasted so long. Ya'll are wild