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

[EZGIL]

i will believe you there xD number is already too high, for me to even comprehend why would anybody keep participating in the lottery !

We keep playing the lottery because we dont have a choice currently. I have no doubt somewhere in the future things will change again, but we are stuck with this for now. This system cant possibly last. The same players that made bots to click placards are the same players that will make LOTS of alts and extra accounts JUST to have extra bids. They didnt solve anything. They just traded in one flawed system for another tbh.

[SturmChurro]

i will believe you there xD number is already too high, for me to even comprehend why would anybody keep participating in the lottery !

Because there is still a chance, that is why there are so many bids. People believe they might win, regardless of the odds.

[anguel]

The current small im bidding on is ONLY 52 kek

you had the same idea as i did xD, there is another medium on the server with similar bidding, and went on bidding in a nice small plot, 2 medium bids exceed 600 in total now, me and my small 5 bid only xD

[Oizen]

Gil is also completely worthless in this game so you might as well

[DeNada]

If you clicked it for multiple hours at once, the problem was you, the only time you had to click was prime time which consists of 2 hours.

First, prime time is 4 hours, not 2. Second, prime time depends on the accuracy of volunteer sweepers who sweep housing wards hourly to confirm when a plot was relinquished, and quite often there's a large gap between sweeps and as a result, players have to camp more than 4 hours for fear of losing a chance at a plot becoming available before the estimated prime time.

Please at least keep your facts straight in your bias for the accursed placard system which no one here actually is in favor of.

[DixieBellOCE]

So, to like... state the obvious, every lottery from here on out is going to be very long odds of winning.

Like... 150-1 odds or much worse.

Is this really the system you envisioned to 'solve' the housing problems? How exactly is this better than clicking a placard against FAR LESS than 150-1 odds.... or worse.

How about keep adding wards to every housing district until its nowhere close to 150 or more people bidding on a single plot. Whats the excuse... spaghetti database issues? I'm not asking for a plot for everyone but 150, or worse, bidding on a single lot... shouldnt be left as the standard either.

Until the next expansion that releases a new housing district.

Welcome to reality, not everything is handed to you on a silver platter.

If you want a house, head over to materia, theres about 1000 free houses there.

[Solarra]

Welcome to reality, not everything is handed to you on a silver platter.

It's like people aren't actually paying for a sub. The fact is that for some of us, that sub gets us considerably more than other people get, I find that hard to justify.

[Oizen]

Accept Mediocrity from the subscription based MMORPG, Small indie dev pls no bully but also buy the $160 Cloud Strife Digital Deluxe NFT and all the mog station only content thanks

[Silverbane]

The fact is that for some of us, that sub gets us considerably more than other people get, I find that hard to justify.

Really? Do you object to high-end raids, then? Because people with low-end machines, really bad ping times, or just plain clumsy fingers (e.g., arthritis) are essentially locked out of that content.

Fact is, differences in what people 'get for their subscription" are inevitable.
"How much" a person gets is highly correlated with

• their ability,
• the capability of their hardware and network connection,
• their level of interest in the various parts of the game, and
• the level of effort they put in.

Accordingly, some people will always get more, and some people will always get less.

It's true for many other kinds of subscriptions as well. Look at cable TV subscriptions, for example.

[Oizen]

Really? Do you object to high-end raids, then? Because people with low-end machines, really bad ping times, or just plain clumsy fingers (e.g., arthritis) are essentially locked out of that content.

Fact is, differences in what people 'get for their subscription" are inevitable.
"How much" a person gets is highly correlated with

• their ability,
• the capability of their hardware and network connection,
• their level of interest in the various parts of the game, and
• the level of effort they put in.

Accordingly, some people will always get more, and some people will always get less.

It's true for many other kinds of subscriptions as well. Look at cable TV subscriptions, for example.

Man thats reaching, Square Enix does NOT need you to simp for them this hard jesus.
Talk to me when the next raid tier has a .3% chance of even being able to enter the instance.