In the MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV, “Housing” has been a major topic for years: there are too few building plots, especially since Final Fantasy XIV has become so popular that it is bursting at the seams. With a lottery, they wanted to expand the housing system in Ishgard, but that failed. The main boss is now pulling the plug.
What is the problem with houses in Final Fantasy XIV? There are simply too few building plots. The places where you can set up your own home in Eorzea are limited and in demand. Since Final Fantasy XIV is experiencing such hype, the problem is getting worse.
This is how they wanted to solve it: With Patch 6.1, a lottery system was introduced in Final Fantasy XIV. New plots were also supposed to come in Empyreum, Ishgard’s adventurer residential area. In this way, 1440 additional slots per server were to be created, distributed via the lottery.
0 always wins
Why did it go wrong? According to reports on reddit, there are two major problems with the lottery for housing plots:
- Some houses indicated that the number “0” had won, but there was no real player holding that number, so no one won the plot – even if only one person had bid on it.
- Some houses indicated that there were no participants in the lottery, even when it was clear elsewhere that several interested parties had bid on the house.
According to reddit users, these problems occur with all building plots in the game, not just the new ones in Ishgard.
These errors were already acknowledged by Square Enix on Easter Saturday (via lodestone).
Boss stops the next cycle: “It’s very complicated”
This is what the chief says: The boss of Final Fantasy XIV is Naoki Yoshida, also Producer and Director of the MMORPG, a mythical figure who once led the game out of damnation and to great heights. He made a statement on Easter Saturday.
Yoshida stated:
- They take the problems very seriously and are investigating them with high priority.
- They apologize to the players, but admit that the situation is really complicated and they need to investigate further.
- The current lottery cycle was supposed to end on Wednesday, but they will let it run and not start a new one until the problem is solved.
Anyone who wants to know more about how Yoshida thinks can check out his statements in the interview:
The boss of Final Fantasy XIV explains how one of the best MMORPGs in the world is created
