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

[Thaciscokidd]

A lot of us tried to warn them. We really did.

I don't think people realized how much of a gatekeeper Placard Clicking was. You go from the couple of people who would click a placard for the chance to opening up housing to literally every Tom, Dick, and Harry with enough money to buy a lotto ticket.

The want was there, but lotto made it easier.

[Sairys]

I don't think people realized how much of a gatekeeper Placard Clicking was. You go from the couple of people who would click a placard for the chance to opening up housing to literally every Tom, Dick, and Harry with enough money to buy a lotto ticket.

The want was there, but lotto made it easier.

And the real issue remains availability as it has been since personal housing launched nearly 8 years ago.

[Eraden]

I don't think people realized how much of a gatekeeper Placard Clicking was. You go from the couple of people who would click a placard for the chance to opening up housing to literally every Tom, Dick, and Harry with enough money to buy a lotto ticket.

The want was there, but lotto made it easier.

And this makes the Lottery bad, HOW?

[Sairys]

And this makes the Lottery bad, HOW?

It's better for people casually looking for a house and worse for those who'd be willing to put in the hours and days monitoring wards for a plot to open up.

[Thaciscokidd]

And this makes the Lottery bad, HOW?

It doesn't make it bad, it just opened housing up more than people realized it would.

Like Sairys put it, its easier to casually drop buy and drop a bid and check on it in a couple of days vs how it use to be when you had to guess window openings or stay and click all day.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

I don't think people realized how much of a gatekeeper Placard Clicking was. You go from the couple of people who would click a placard for the chance to opening up housing to literally every Tom, Dick, and Harry with enough money to buy a lotto ticket.

The want was there, but lotto made it easier.

They don’t know what was the actual number of player (and bots) they’re competing against.

[Sairys]

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.

I'm super interested in how, even why, you've been monitoring the countless individuals commenting on these threads to the point that you can say with certainty that those who are annoyed at the lottery are those that were begging for it. My observation has been more that the people who like the lottery hated the old system while those that hate the lottery typically seem to focus on how it's not an actual solution.

[SweetestLily]

I'm super interested in how, even why, you've been monitoring the countless individuals commenting on these threads to the point that you can say with certainty that those who are annoyed at the lottery are those that were begging for it. My observation has been more that the people who like the lottery hated the old system while those that hate the lottery typically seem to focus on how it's not an actual solution.

For years these forums have been littered with the we need a lottery post. There have been probably over a hundred of them. Now you come here and see the exact opposite tone. I've literally seen a few of the same people who begged for a lottery now crying about it. So yes it's funny to see a complete 180 and no you don't need to "monitor" anyone to see threads that are plastered on the front page for all to see. Nice try though.

[Atelier-Bagur]

For years these forums have been littered with the we need a lottery post. There have been probably over a hundred of them. Now you come here and see the exact opposite tone. I've literally seen a few of the same people who begged for a lottery now crying about it. So yes it's funny to see a complete 180 and no you don't need to "monitor" anyone to see threads that are plastered on the front page for all to see. Nice try though.

I wish we had a J. Allan Brack in this dev team.

Oh no, not to actually DO anything substantial like making or directing content for this game oh no! I just want somebody like him for PR to come into these forums and do the "You think you do but you dont" thing to people here. Just for lulz.

[dapperfaffer]

I wish we had a J. Allan Brack in this dev team.

Oh no, not to actually DO anything substantial like making or directing content for this game oh no! I just want somebody like him for PR to come into these forums and do the "You think you do but you dont" thing to people here. Just for lulz.

He wasn't wrong though. Classic died very fast.

Seems trivial, look for Live Letter recaps that mention both. If you can't find it then it's more likely a comment from Mr.Happy than Yoshi-P.

It very well could be.