Final Fantasy XIV Housing Lottery System Having Major Issues, Naoki Yoshida Responds | MMORPG.com

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• Tiller Member LegendaryPosts: 11,485

  April 2022

  It's a terrible system tbh. Should have just made it dynamic or phased. Every game these days with open world (or semi open world like ffxiv) housing is a mess sadly because everyone wants a house and there is only ever so much space.
  
  SWG had it, but you had a whole planet, and again people fought over the best spots; though you could almost always find a place to set down. Yes housing along with harvesters were an eyesore to some in Galaxies, but at least you could find something. Games these days are worse for housing since the maps are small and housing plots are limited compared to the amount of people wanting a housing plot.
  
  Maybe they should just make a big map specifically for open world housing.

  

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• Whiteshade92 Member UncommonPosts: 95

  April 2022

  
  

  Tiller said:

  
  

  It's a terrible system tbh. Should have just made it dynamic or phased. Every game these days with open world (or semi open world like ffxiv) housing is a mess sadly because everyone wants a house and there is only ever so much space.
  
  
  
  SWG had it, but you had a whole planet, and again people fought over the best spots; though you could almost always find a place to set down. Yes housing along with harvesters were an eyesore to some in Galaxies, but at least you could find something. Games these days are worse for housing since the maps are small and housing plots are limited compared to the amount of people wanting a housing plot.
  
  
  
  Maybe they should just make a big map specifically for open world housing.

  
  

  
  
  Ancient engine won't allow the bigger map.
• JudgeUK Member RarePosts: 1,701

  April 2022

  Their investigation has discovered where the error happens.
  
  "After investigating this issue, we discovered that, while the server responsible for conducting the lottery is functioning as intended, the results are not being properly relayed to the servers responsible for managing housing-related data".
  
  So it appears that the housing winners are known, with the fault being the communication to the lottery participants.
  
  https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/b24a3bc015ba989f9b84e9409dd233a2ab8e17b6
• Kratier Member RarePosts: 626

  April 2022

  its been like 5 years and they still havent worked this out, clearly the whole non-instanced thing was a mistake. can't wait til their personal island thing happens, maybe my free trial account will be able to actually use furnishings then
• hayes303 Member UncommonPosts: 431

  April 2022

  I always found it ironic that even the game's producer says they mean for us to take breaks from the game now and again, but if you do, your house is gone, along with everything in it.
  
  Its a terrible, stupid system in an otherwise amazing game.

  
• KnightFalz Member EpicPosts: 4,585

  April 2022

  
  

  hayes303 said:

  
  

  I always found it ironic that even the game's producer says they mean for us to take breaks from the game now and again, but if you do, your house is gone, along with everything in it.
  
  
  
  Its a terrible, stupid system in an otherwise amazing game.

  
  

  
  
  Well, a break from the game isn't by necessity the same as a break from subscription. You are apparently expected to keep that going if you want to keep your house.