Why did the housing date get pushed again?

[Joint]

Any particular reason the date changed from 10:59 am 5/17 until the now 5/26? I may have missed it somewhere but, why? A 9 day extension on the results period that was already restored?

[Aldotsk]

Probably because they want lottery "0" winners few more days of chance to pick up their house. They probably felt bad that 1 day duration is not fair enough.

[Greyhawk]

It didn't get pushed. That's what it has always been. Read the latest follow-up 6 on the Lodestone site.

[Aldotsk]

It didn't get pushed. That's what it has always been. Read the latest follow-up 6 on the Lodestone site.

I assume the OP just checked that housing was on May 17th in-game without checking Lodestone like many other players did.

It's reasonable thing to react like that. Square Enix did another booboo and fixed it.

But still, 26th is just really long time of grace period for people to purchase their plots.

[Hasrat]

But still, 26th is just really long time of grace period for people to purchase their plots.

Likely, it was simply the easiest solution to prevent one lottery cycle, rather than trying to shift the entire cycle a few days and risk breaking something with timers.

[Joint]

It didn't get pushed. That's what it has always been. Read the latest follow-up 6 on the Lodestone site.

Cool, ty

The placard did say today (yesterday lol)

[Greyhawk]

Cool, ty

The placard did say today (yesterday lol)

Yeah, they confirmed on Twitter that it was an error in the text on the confirmation. I wish they wouldn't just use that platform to push something out like that. I don't use social media anymore and rely on their website, you know the place that should have all of the information, and not just a third-party platform. :|

[Breakbeat]

I don't use social media anymore and rely on their website, you know the place that should have all of the information, and not just a third-party platform.

It's reasonable to want this to be the way data is kept. Unfortunately, data on the Internet isn't organized that way, and it doesn't appear to be moving in that direction, i.e., for information on X brand product you would only ever go to X brand's first-party website.

I don't "use social media" either - in the sense that I don't "use it" like a teenager would use it today. I don't post TikToks, I don't tweet all day, I don't post things on Instagram or Snapchat, I never say "like and subscribe, be sure to catch my live stream, follow me on all socials, check out my new content house." No, that is absolutely not me. IMVHO all that garbage can be drop-kicked off the planet.

However, something like Twitter can be used as a fairly powerful data retrieval tool, if that's all you want it to be. Shut off all notifications and check when you want to check. Follow only those that provide information you'd like to be made aware of. When I open my Twitter feed, it's not filled with a bunch of eye-popping pictures for the algorithm, nor pictures of peoples' lunch, nor the latest on Depp vs. Heard (for god's sake, lol.) I see notices from SE and other companies whose games I play. I see new music I want. I see what my family is doing, and that's about it.

I mean, absolutely fair if you just don't want to use it for your personal reasons - I totally respect that. I just wanted to make the point that one can indeed "use social media" in a fair and reasonable way without becoming part of the social media "scene".

Secondary to that, I wanted to point out that going to a first-party website for information in 2022 isn't the most efficient way of retrieving data. I'd love it to be, but it just isn't. Choose any first-party manufacturer website for video games, electronics, cars, food, clothing, ISPs, medicine, or virtually any other popular item, and you'll find that site to contain less information, and in a more disorganized manner, than third-party sites.

[Themarvin]

lottery will open again next week, it is going to work.

[Pablomaldito]

5/26 was the date I saw in the announcements. I was surprised when I clicked on a placard and saw 5/17, but I figured that was an error and that it would be updated to 5/26 at some point. I have to admit though, a small part of me was sort of looking forward to the circus that would ensue if that unreasonably short 5/17 deadline had actually come to pass, and a second round of lottery started before all the 0 bug victims could finalize their purchases.