Final Fantasy 14’s broken housing lottery will get fixed soon

Final Fantasy 14 The developers say they have found what caused the MMO housing lottery to malfunction and will fix the problem soon. The good news, producer and director Naoki Yoshida said, the lottery results that ran for the past week have been preserved and can be done during regular server maintenance.

In addition, players who win a housing lot in one lottery without error or failure will not be forced to go through the process again or enter another lottery. That said, Yoshida has asked anyone given a residential plot to claim it in-game as soon as possible so that the maintenance goes more smoothly.

The glitch hit the game on April 12 with patch 6.1, which changed the way housing lots are awarded in the game. In the past, everything was first-come/first-served, requiring players to go through some ungainly waiting times before attempting to buy a house. The lottery is supposed to work by handing out random lots over a nine-day period. The player has five days to place an empty plot; a draw is held and the winner, chosen at random, has four days to confirm the plot.

Instead, users reported the lottery drew a “winner” with a zero (supposedly impossible in the system) or didn’t award anyone. In other examples, a player entered a lottery for a plot, but was told there was no winner.

Yoshida on Saturday acknowledged the problems and apologized for the disappointment they had caused. He also explains in more detail how the lottery works, or so is supposed to be. The house lottery is a “simple method of randomisation”, but since players can have multiple characters on the same account, the game has to set complicated conditions for them to enter or win. Lottery. The developers had to spend the weekend debunking what the lottery regulator saw caused the erroneous results.

Meanwhile, the “result period” for the first draw, originally scheduled to end on Wednesday, will now be extended to an indefinite period. Furthermore, the developers do not get hold of any new lotteries until the problems with the first one are fixed.

Get housing Final Fantasy 14 The official Polygon guide says “always a bad experience. The housing lottery changes come as the new Empyreum housing estate has opened in-game in Ishgard. The manual has more details on how the process works.

In 2020, Square Enix added 720 lots per server to keep up with demand, effectively doubling the housing supply that had expanded the previous year. At the height of the pandemic, the game placed a ban on the relocation (and destruction) of the world if players were unable to maintain their possessions.