Final Fantasy 14 Housing Lottery Fixes Incoming

gamerant.com:

Final Fantasy 14 launched the first lottery round of Ishgard housing last week. The lottery system in Final Fantasy 14 was supposed to be a fair chance for Free Companies and individual players to bid on a plot of their choice in the new housing district against other bidders. Unfortunately, its launch – cautiously anticipated by old and new players alike – was undermined by a major bug that left many who submitted their bids wrongfully homeless.

Namely, the bug in Final Fantasy 14 was discovered after the initial drawing of the lottery winners on Saturday. During the process of bidding, a player or a free company is assigned a number that starts from one and increments for every new lottery bid submitted on the plot. However, the system that relayed the lottery information to the servers wasn't functioning properly, leaving some plots to have an assigned winning number of zero – meaning that effectively, it would designate a winner who did not exist.

RELATED: Final Fantasy 14 Housing Lottery Pull Plagued with Glitches

Square Enix apologized for the mishap and opened communication with its player-base instantly, explaining that they would halt the lottery process until the source of the problem was found and addressed. Given the nature of the bug, winners who have been successfully selected by the lottery system will not be impacted by these issues and may continue to enjoy Ishgard housing to their heart's content. The plots that drew the number zero, on the other hand, will be put under a delicate process.

Firstly, Square Enix will implement a fix to the lottery system that will now correctly relay the information to the server, ensuring that this bug never occurs in the future. Secondly, they will look into the data from