Housing sucks rn!

[Shibi]

This was my last lotto bc there are no more private plots on my server if all the plots are claimed from this time

Don't give up. On Sarg for the next lottery in 4 days you have (so far)

Mist, Ward 22, Plot 23
Mist, Ward 23, Plot 41
The Lavender Beds, Ward 23, Plot 54
The Lavender Beds, Ward 24, Plot 38
The Goblet, Ward 24, Plot 8 (a medium)

I suggest not going for the medium, but waiting until the last day before the end of the next period, and aiming for one of those four smalls. There could well be more than this over the coming days too.

(I'd actually suggest you aim for the worst of the smalls - same as FCFS days. Get your small house first, no matter how bad, then aim to improve it's position later. It costs more, but the stress is less, and you have haus until then.)

[Lustre]

OP is smart. The only way to win is to not play. People act like oh, if people enter theyll know how many of us want a house and theyll fix it. To that, I say they already have the information so it's fruitless. If something was gonna change it woulda happened by now. Instead theyll drip feed houses every like, couple expansions and eventually playerbase will probably drop to the point where you'll be able to get one. I seriously think there's more chance of people quitting the game en-masse, thus freeing up house spaces than there is SE actually fixing this problem permanently while the game actually has a somewhat healthy population, and not just fake band-aid patches.

[Avoidy]

OP is smart. The only way to win is to not play. People act like oh, if people enter theyll know how many of us want a house and theyll fix it. To that, I say they already have the information so it's fruitless. If something was gonna change it woulda happened by now. Instead theyll drip feed houses every like, couple expansions and eventually playerbase will probably drop to the point where you'll be able to get one. I seriously think there's more chance of people quitting the game en-masse, thus freeing up house spaces than there is SE actually fixing this problem permanently while the game actually has a somewhat healthy population, and not just fake band-aid patches.

To be fair, you don't really lose anything by playing. So you might as well just dump your lot in and then forget about it. Maybe you'll get lucky and win. Probably won't though. Long as you're not being That Guy who literally slept next to the placard and then lost and got banned on twitter for popping off, you're fine.
I agree with the rest though. They'll probably do something later, even if it's just adding more wards once everyone quits during the scheduled slower period that follows an expac. Would've been nice if they could've been proactive this time, though, by just opening more private wards like people begged them to do from the start. But it's over, so no point looking to the past.

It's moot anyway, since the individual plots are all gone at this point. There were like... 12? in the last bidding session. Now there won't be any, unless some FC house moved to Ishgard and had a grandfathered plot. At best we'll see thousands of people bidding on a couple of homes. At worst, we'll see nothing even available. I've said my piece on this so much that now all I can do is laugh at how poorly this has gone tbh

[ijuakos_xqwzts]

...For every lottery entry, SE has another data point that their current housing supply is inadequate.....

Do we even have proof that they're looking at those numbers?

Tbf, your slim chance is equal to their slim chance. You still have that chance to get the house. Keep trying, you be surprised that your effort will eventually pay off. Someone has to win, and it's the same for every participant.

Have you seen how many people are bidding on houses? I'm certain that most of those people have been trying since the lottery started. Now, look at how many houses are available. "Keep trying and your effort will eventually pay off" is platitude.

[Silverbane]

Have you seen how many people are bidding on houses?

Actually, no one outside SE has seen that number.
The number of bids isn't the same as the number of bidders: my spouse and I each placed three bids (using three characters each) on the house she won in Kugane@Faerie in the most recent round of the housing lottery.

We then verified, as we suspected, that you can't make your own alt characters tenants of a house your main character owns. although you can make someone else's. Eh.

[Brygd]

Do we even have proof that they're looking at those numbers?

I have no proof. The only Japanese Final Fantasy team member I knew tangentially I haven't seen nor spoken with since 2005.

However, these are public data points that now make it publicly trackable as to the demand for housing, especially larger housing. There's a good chance there will be a few more pointed questions asked at the next live letter.

[Arlythe]

I'm fairly new to the game (Started in 2021), but I've noticed that housing always was one of the most discussed topics ever since it got introduced. Be it players being excluded or the current system at any given time, they never seemed to get it right and if they made changes, it was years after.

Do you think, they care enough to fix it soon again?

Because I already gave up hope ever owning a house. I can only imagine how it must feel if you're a long time player.
Especially in an otherwise exceptionally well made game like FF14, this would bother me to no end.

[Themarvin]

The same number of people will click placecards the same amount of time, now you just get to see the actual numbers on it, on the bright side no fighting with spamclicking bots.

[Arlythe]

The same number of people will click placecards the same amount of time, now you just get to see the actual numbers on it, on the bright side no fighting with spamclicking bots.

Then again, there's wards that are entirely bought by one person. They really need to take care of this

[Themarvin]

Then again, there's wards that are entirely bought by one person. They really need to take care of this

That was from days of old with an elderly systemadn set of rules, doubt that SE would Anti-Grandfather them.