So, what now? Lotteries with 150+ bids until... when?

[Atelier-Bagur]

"Remember, when you had to like....spam cities and click on the placard saying things to yourself like "Need a house, need a house, need a house" during the ARR-Shb days? You dont remember that, because now you have a button that gives you a lotto ticket. You dont want to do that."

[Oizen]

Its almost like housing was always dog shit and Squeenix hasn't done anything about it basically ever.

[Stormpeaks]

People asked for lottery, you get what you sow, enjoy it, and this is only the beginning, once the leftover smalls are gone too, there will be absolutely nothing left to bid on, and the only plot available will have 200+ bids on it. Bots from placard camping are gone, good job, big success, now you can be agaisnt 200 "real" players instead.

[SweetestLily]

People asked for lottery, you get what you sow, enjoy it, and this is only the beginning, once the leftover smalls are gone too, there will be absolutely nothing left to bid on, and the only plot available will have 200+ bids on it. Bots from placard camping are gone, good job, big success, now you can be agaisnt 200 "real" players instead.

Exactly. You can't ask for something then cause a storm when you get it.

[hagare]

you don't like it? Let's go with a tender system.
Put in how you're willing to pay for a lot. Bind of course

[IkaraGreydancer]

I will never stop laughing at the fact that the playerbase has been BEGGING for a lottery system on these forums for YEARS. They finally cave and give you all exactly what you asked for, and now you realize you didn't actually want one after all and are pulling the classic kindergarten tantrum because now you want the old way back. This is exactly why they sometimes hesitate to give us what we want. Because people themselves don't even know what they want.

You do realize not every was asking for this right? Don't lump us in whlith those who were

[SweetestLily]

You do realize not every was asking for this right? Don't lump us in whlith those who were

I should have said the MAJORITY of the playerbase, because apparently those against it didn't speak up nearly as much as those for it until NOW.

[Breakbeat]

Last night when I made the 'rounds' of all five housing zones to place my bid, I found the following:

- Dozens of plots that had 2, 3 or 4 bids on them, at the very end of the entry cycle.
- The maximum number of entries on a plot was 58. I avoided that because...
- ...identical plots in other wards had less than ten bids on them.

In the end I picked a plot that had three other bids on it, mine being the fourth.

I guess participation varies wildly based on server? That's fine, I can understand that. Stating things like '150-1 odds or much worse' is hyperbolic, though. Did you even look around? Places like Empyrium were rife with open plots and low participation. I visited some two dozen open plots in one ward there, and at least half of them had fewer than ten bids. At the tail end of the cycle (2am-ish, PDT, six hours before entries closed.)

[EZGIL]

Last night when I made the 'rounds' of all five housing zones to place my bid, I found the following:

- Dozens of plots that had 2, 3 or 4 bids on them, at the very end of the entry cycle.
- The maximum number of entries on a plot was 58. I avoided that because...
- ...identical plots in other wards had less than ten bids on them.

In the end I picked a plot that had three other bids on it, mine being the fourth.

I guess participation varies wildly based on server? That's fine, I can understand that. Stating things like '150-1 odds or much worse' is hyperbolic, though. Did you even look around? Places like Empyrium were rife with open plots and low participation. I visited some two dozen open plots in one ward there, and at least half of them had fewer than ten bids. At the tail end of the cycle (2am-ish, PDT, six hours before entries closed.)

I also made the rounds but did not do a total tally so I appreciate that point. '150' was hyperbolic... purposefully. I have no idea what the actual odds will be but it wont be good by most peoples standards. Tbh, most wards in Empy had 2 to at most 10 bids, but most were really 3-4 bids per. So, I guess, there's at least hope in better odds winning on Empy and Kugane lots in the future. I'm not feeling lucky though.

[Gemina]

I'm kind of curious how those pining for instanced housing would feel if they stepped into their instanced home and noticed that they can't get any of the indoor glitches to work when trying to decorate. You know, because it's entirely different content, and the devs didn't bake those glitches in.