Housing lottery system takes entirely too long and is poorly designed.

[DetHlyAura]

This one week between each lottery means 4 attempts a month. The system needs to be reworked, terribly. In 2024 this is absolutely unacceptable. They make it pathetically difficult to get a house at all and I find that to be on purpose but I won't lie, its the reason I am already considering quitting after only a month and a half. Ultima Online was a game from 1999 with a far better housing a decorating system and its freaking ancient compared to this. Just sad that a company this big would come out and say this is their best idea. With the amount of server space these use its minimal as all hell, absolutely no excuse. Just beyond aggravating and annoying.

[Jojoya]

You're not going to find too many people happy with the housing system.

But with respect to the length of the lottery period, did you consider what would happen if it was shorter? It's not like SE is slowly doling out new plots being added. The plots that are available in the lottery on the congested worlds are the ones that were relinquished or demolished during the last lottery period.

Shorter the lottery period, and you lower the potential number of plots that will be available in the next lottery period. A lower number of plots means greater competition for those plots. Greater competition increases the chance you'll lose.

While in the long run it won't make an actual difference (the same number of plots are awarded via the lottery), players start feeling discouraged about having an even smaller chance of getting one.

Longer lottery periods means more available plots to bid on and less competition for a specific plot (outside of those prime plots that are in very high demand). When there's less direct competition for a specific plot, players feel better about their chances of winning.

Shortening the lottery period won't improve things. Fixing the entire system would.

[DetHlyAura]

I have, and with a 4 day lottery period or even 5 would give more chances a month, the same number of houses will be available with no change, but more chances is 100% worth it. This current system is just dog water. It needs to be faster to be more fair for everyone. Also opening more plots would be as simple as adding a new zone, I am currently in game design and development myself and know that it wouldn't truly be as hard as they are trying to make it out to be. They just don't want to do the work!

[JimCasey_RF6]

They make it pathetically difficult to get a house at all and I find that to be on purpose but I won't lie, its the reason I am already considering quitting after only a month and a half.

It is not difficult to get a house in FFXIV. There is an overabundance of housing on the four new Dynamis DC servers. If player housing is that important to you, then you need to transfer to one of those servers. You shouldn't have joined a well established server expecting to have easy access to the housing system.

[Crafoutis]

If player housing is that important to you, then you need to transfer to one of those servers. You shouldn't have joined a well established server expecting to have easy access to the housing system.

Bingo. OP joined an old, established, high-pop realm. And so OP has to deal with it.

When I data-center travel to visit my friends, I will sometimes check on the status of residential districts and I am blown away by the availability of plots.

If you want a house, if you -really- want a house, then there are methods of acquiring one.

But beggars can't be choosers.

[MakoEyes]

It is not difficult to get a house in FFXIV. There is an overabundance of housing on the four new Dynamis DC servers. If player housing is that important to you, then you need to transfer to one of those servers. You shouldn't have joined a well established server expecting to have easy access to the housing system.

I've been playing in Leviathan since beta.

I'll be damned I switch servers just to appease a function of this game that should be provided to all.

Stop allowing fake accounts, bot accounts, and shell-FCs from placing bids.


Don't allow bids by accounts less than one year old.

[Solowing]

I've been playing in Leviathan since beta.

I'll be damned I switch servers just to appease a function of this game that should be provided to all.

Stop allowing fake accounts, bot accounts, and shell-FCs from placing bids.


Don't allow bids by accounts less than one year old.

So any new player that comes to the game shouldn't have a hope of getting a plot any times soon?

The community asked for a fair chance at getting a plot they got one.It's not the dedicated few you're competing against anymore, but the casual many that asked to be considered for. And they got exactly that.

HOUSING is provided to all who want to participate in it. So you can't say that a housing is unavailable to you.

The game doesn't grant you a PLOT. But nobody was granted one.

[MakoEyes]

But keep responding on these forums like I anyone would really give a damn.

[MakoEyes]

Housing has been an issue since launch of housing.

Housing became more of a nightmare since the "anticipated fix".

Housing has been nothing but a blight on this game since day one.


But let's keep pointing the blame at anyone but the one's who continue letting it be problem.



White knights everywhere. I hope Squeenix is reimbursing you, defending them so simply.