Final Fantasy 14 players that return "accidentally refunded" housing lottery gil will get a new item

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Final Fantasy 14 is asking fans who were "accidentally refunded" in-game currency, gil, during the MMORPG's recent housing lottery kerfuffle to "voluntarily return" their deposits.

In a detailed update (opens in new tab) on the official website, Square Enix confirmed it has added an NPC "by which players may voluntarily return the deposit", relying on fans' goodwill to return any profits they have had erroneously refunded.

Back in April, Yoshida apologized to players after it was discovered that the game's new housing lottery system was broken (opens in new tab) and had "extensive and persistent" errors. It became apparent that the new feature - which came into the game as part of the 6.1 Patch - was malfunctioning when some players participating in lotteries received messages informing them that they were unsuccessful because there "were no participants in this lottery", and others were told the winning lottery number was "0", even though that number was unassignable and no player could select it.

At the time, producer Naoki Yoshida assured fans that "as these housing lottery issues have been significant and caused great stress and frustration in many players, we have no intention of performing a data rollback to forcibly rescind any refunded gil," but did suggest that players would be encouraged to make a "voluntary return of housing deposits" - and now that time has come.

Now players will be able to speak to the Housing Lottery Clerk in Empyreum to "voluntarily return their deposit". Fans that do so will receive an item: a poster (thanks, TheGamer (opens in new tab)). All of them carry various messages of apology, with two featuring Namazu and one showing Lalafell.

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