FFXIV Unfortunate Significant Housing Error

JudgeUK

For those who may not have seen the several posts on this, including SE's acknowledgement and apology, there has been a significant error in the allocation of housing following the first in-game lottery results.

Apparently the system allocates a number to yourself upon entering a bid for a house. For example, if 5 players have entered for a house, they will have been allocated 1-5.

However, an error in the coding also included 0 (zero) in the draw. Consequently if any house lottery draw came out with 0 then no one would win the house, even if only one person had gone in for it.

As you can imagine, there has been a significant reaction to this error in game.

The official post is linked below. There are also follow ups on the FFXIV Lodestone site.
https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/news/detail/36646e3d47900f4b3bf7a14cc7dc6afb44a55289

Scot

I understand getting housing in FF is fraught with issues but built in ones, not errors. Hopefully players get a "refund" or second shot at it.

Vrika

EDIT: Links to the follow-ups in case someone wants them:
 
Follow up 1:
 https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/news/detail/eb82e8f52a4769d0273290e4b013921223930aa3
Follow up 2:
  https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/8edc97a36a90a191752986ba24c19658c2a29d17

Though at the moment the follow-ups basically only tell you that they're investigating.