Suggestion: Shorten lottery timer

[CatStarwind]

That's why weekends should be the results period. Most people have more leisure time during the weekends.

I don't think you're deliberately trying to say "service industry workers aren't real people" but that's what you're saying here.

Gonna need help connecting the dots with this one.

[Lakhesys]

I don't think you're deliberately trying to say "service industry workers aren't real people" but that's what you're saying here.

Lmao, really now?

Are you in school or something?

The majority of the players of this game are adults who work all manor of hours, in my FC alone, I have people that work night shifts and weekends regularly. I myself even worked most weekends one point.

The current system works perfectly. I know ya'll all desperate for a large/medium in your preferred location just like I am desperate for plot 31 in Shirogane. But rather than suggesting a system that would adversely affect people that don't spend their lives 24/7 on FF14. Go suggest a solution or post in the threads for more housing.

I work full-time, actually.
Are you trying to say you can't log in for 5 minutes on a sunday to see if you won the lottery?

I'm not particularly desperate for a large nor a medium, seeing as my FC has a large in Shiro and I have a Med in Empyreum, I'm just saying most people have more leisure time during the weekends.

[Reinha]

Most people don't have a dire need for a shorter lottery period. You can wait that long so there is no reason to change it.

[Seraphor]

The offset pattern definitely helps those who can't access the game too often or every day, or at regular intervals.
It's particularly important for the claiming period, because if you fail to claim your winning bid, you lose half your gil.
I could perhaps see them shortening the bidding period, to three days, with a four day claim period, to fit that 7 day cycle, that still allows more than two days per phase, and crucially the four days for claiming so you don't lose your gil. I do agree you'd have to be very specifically unlucky to be unable to log in for four days straight due to working patterns.

However... there's no pressing need to shorten it other than the fact that people are impatient. Two additional days isn't going to hurt.

[Elevin]

If anything, I think the lottery cycle should be 14 days, 7 days to enter, 7 days for results. Easy 2 week timetable as the current one is a bit of a nightmare to keep up.

[CatStarwind]

They really should at the very least add the time period information in Timers.

[PaalHenrik]

Hasn't this topic been beaten to death already?

[LaylaTsarra]

Hasn't this topic been beaten to death already?

I don't think they'll shorten it, it's pretty reasonable gives people an opportunity to bid and to claim their winnings.

[Daeriion_Aeradiir]

I work full-time, actually.
Are you trying to say you can't log in for 5 minutes on a sunday to see if you won the lottery?

I'm not particularly desperate for a large nor a medium, seeing as my FC has a large in Shiro and I have a Med in Empyreum, I'm just saying most people have more leisure time during the weekends.

You do realize work cultures aren't universal across the globe right?

Japan notoriously has very draconian work culture where there is a very 'for the company' attitude, where, while not against the rules or anything, is extremely frowned upon if you leave work right as your work ends, meaning a very large size of workers will work longer hours to look better in the eyes of the company & their co-workers. Then there's also the appearance of maintaining social interactions & good relations with co-workers and higher ups, leading to many going straight from work out to bars, restaurants, etc for social interactions. Even weekends can be sketchy with social obligations, its extremely easy to lose track of something as minor as a lottery cycle in a video game.

It's not uncommon for people to be so exhausted after getting home that 5 mins checking on a video game is a tall order. That's not even mentioning people who's jobs can often take them to areas with horrible internet/no internet, like my friend's who once every 3-4 months, she has to fly out to backwater parts of Africa for several days where you'd be lucky to stay connected to FF14 for longer than 30s (if they even have internet in the place she goes to). If the lottery cycle had been any shorter, she would have missed out on getting her medium when the new wards opened.

The 5 day bidding, 4 day confirmation was specifically chosen so that way the extremely vast majority will have an opportunity to place a bid & check the results of said bid, no matter how crummy their job situation as a courtesy. There's zero chance they ever shorten it.

[dspguy]

5 day entry guarantees entry period straddles a Friday night, Saturday or Sunday which is when much of the playerbase is available to put in a ticket. This makes it more accessible. And the 4 day pickup is reasonable since if you put in a bid during that time period, you'll probably make time to login and check if you one. And 9 days means that lottery doesn't always start/stop on the same day like it would if it was 4/3 or 5/2 or something.