Naoki Yoshida, producer and director of Final Fantasy 14, has confirmed that the MMO's housing lottery system has now been resolved.
While he acknowledges that the issues were "extensive and persistent", the team has since been able to reproduce the issue, fixed identified errors, verified those fixes, and is now ready to restore the lottery data.
Last month, Yoshida had to apologize to players after it was discovered that the game's new housing lottery system was broken.
It became apparent that the new feature - which came into the game as part of the recent 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.
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