Lottery System, Real Estate, Odds - Failure

[TwistedTea]

Suggestion:
There may not be a perfect variation of housing in FFXIV but this lottery is not a fix. What would have been a fix would have been allowing the real estate market to continue and adding a lottery to houses which had become demolished. At least the players would still have some power over their property instead of being terrified of losing their home and having to chronically log in. Because the odds are against a player if their house is demolished or relinquished and they want one back.

Strongly disagree. The real estate market had plenty of botters. No legit human player can significantly compete against 24/7 bots. On highly populated servers, the bot housing resellers monopolized the market.

That's terribly unfair.

Also, why is this your solution instead of asking SE to address the core issue; supply?

What we need. is SE to acknowledge that access to the limited ward housing is horrible game design. There's a reason why other major MMOs with housing, go the fully instanced route.

Suggestions to improve housing supply:

1. Keep the existing ward housing for those who want to fight it out for exclusive/flex houses.

2. Improve upon apartments. Make them upgradeable for gil all the way to condos/penthouses. This way they will serve as an additional gil sink.

3. Maybe Island Sanctuaries can be fully instanced housing.