Remove Lottery [POLL]

[Nepentha]

2 With the caveat I want them to rework housing to make it available to everyone.

[A_moth_called_rose]

2 but there could always be a better way to handle it

at least with lottery I have a chance unlike trying to out-click botters

[Azuri]

Lottery has generated so much content on these forums... It would be a real shame to lose it.

[EthanXdeath]

1

no time to explain, what doesn't need to be explained.

[Pablomaldito]

2
The old system sucked. The only ways to get a house were to cheat or engage in dysfunctional behavior. I mean yeah, if you were willing to cheat or engage in dysfunctional behavior then your chances of getting a house under the old system were higher than now, because you were only up against other players who were willing to cheat or engage in dysfunctional behavior.

The lottery is great because it exposes how pathetically inadequate the housing supply is. With every personal house getting 10 or more bids on the opening of an entire housing district, the lottery has laid bare that housing is only available to 10% (or less) of the players who want a house and can pay for it. And this was at the opening of a district, when availability is unusually high. When the wards fill, any available house that pops up will have hundreds or thousands of bidders. Lotteries with 0.1% (or less) chance of winning will become the new normal.

Now that more of the players can participate in trying to get a house, a much larger section of the population will see its hopes crushed in round after round of lotteries with insurmountable odds. People who would not have even tried to participate in housing will now see failure week after week. FFXIV's ridiculously undersupplied housing system deserves all the hate it can get. The lottery will encourage more people to hate it, so it's a good thing.

[DeNada]

With new NA and EU data centers coming in the near future, lack of housing won't be an issue anymore. Anyone who wants a house can just transfer servers to the new datacenters which will be free.

Moreover, with data center travel in 6.18, you can still play with your friends while having a house on another data center. Based on what is happening in Materia, there will be more empty plots than occupied plots so anyone who wants a house don't have a reason to complain.

[Neoyoshi]

I wish the system was better, but the lottery feels like the fairest system we have available atm.

[Naoki34]

The lottery system is a complete joke with the real solution to add more wards and stop stealing homes through demolition.


VOTE:
1 - Remove Lottery
2 - Keep Lottery



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[Burmecia]

People who pushed for lottery hard made this bed for us, why wouldn't we wanna lie in it now? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[Baxcel]

2

Waiting for the OP to either ask for thread deletion because no one is agreeing with them or to forever ignore it like this never happened