Gamers trying to purchase a brand new home in Last Fantasy XIV’s newest replace have been operating right into a bug with the brand new lottery system which has induced them to overlook out on their desired property – even in instances the place they had been the one bidder. The MMO sport’s producer and director Naoki Yoshida wrote a short publish addressing the scenario on Saturday, however has now additional clarified the scenario in an extended write-up.

In his preliminary announcement, Yoshida stated that “there are lots of patterns concerned for the lottery circumstances” which induced some hypothesis about whether or not there was some hidden complexity to figuring out the lottery final result. Within the follow-up publish, Yoshida clarifies that the patterns he spoke of refer particularly to the entry circumstances, and that the precise lottery itself makes use of a easy randomisation technique.

Yoshida says that the group has the lottery information, and that it’s potential for them to substantiate the standing of entry functions by means of database server logs. They’re utilizing these to make sure that gamers is not going to be negatively affected in the event that they accepted the refund of their gil deposit provided after shedding a lottery which suffered from one of many aforementioned points.

The three major points presently occurring are lotteries that had been correctly performed however show the profitable quantity as 0 (which no-one can declare, inflicting no winner to be displayed), lotteries with a single entrant which show that there have been no entrants, and instances the place no winner is set regardless of entries being made by a number of pals or free firm members.

Right this moment’s publish additionally affords a way more detailed breakdown into the specifics of the housing lottery system and the way entrants are decided. It particulars circumstances similar to whether or not a participant already owns property on different characters on the identical service account, through which case a second character on that account can’t apply for a lottery entry until in addition they already personal a plot of land.

In the meanwhile, the housing lotteries are on maintain. Within the meantime, there’s nonetheless loads of different new issues to discover in FFXIV patch 6.1 – together with a helpful new auto-target choice to enhance normal high quality of life. It’s also possible to take part with the present FFXIV Hatching-tide 2022 occasion festivities, which fairly actually give you an egg on this making an attempt time.