The Final Fantasy 14 Housing Lottery Is Finally Fixed

Final Fantasy XIV’s housing lottery is finally fixed after one month of being broken. 

A FFXIV maintenance upgrade on April 16 stated that the latest housing lottery in-game cycle was not completed. This meant that when the placard was to show the winners, it said no winners. It meant that nobody was able to buy a house. Polygon reports the issue has been fixed as of yesterday, and now, winning lottery numbers will be displayed correctly, and land purchases may be finalized accordingly. 

“As I mentioned in our previous update, we will be conducting maintenance to restore lottery results data on Monday, May 16,” FFXIV producer and director Naoki Yoshida writes in a new update. “This maintenance will fix identified errors and properly relay lottery results for affected plots to the appropriate servers.”

This maintenance fix results in a re-usable system.: 

• You will see the winning lottery numbers correctly and you may make land purchases accordingly.
• Temporary suspensions for plot purchase and relocation will be lifted. 

Yoshida advises that you must finalize your land purchases by Thursday May 26 if you are a winner of the lottery. The next cycle of the lottery will start on that date, and you will no longer be eligible to claim the land that you were awarded during this lottery. It will have a five-day entry window and four-day results. 

If you’re a winning participant who has already received a gil refund due to the recent lottery break, you will still be able to finalize a purchase on a won plot of land. Even if you received a refund and have since found out you won the lottery, you’ll still be treated as a winning lottery player. 

“In Patch 6.2, we plan to implement an NPC by which you may voluntarily return the deposit you were accidentally refunded,” Yoshida writes. “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. Once the NPC is in place, we will announce the voluntary return to housing deposits. 

“In closing, I would like to thank you all once again for your patience and understanding this past month, and extend my deepest apologies for the trouble and inconvenience these issues have caused. We are going to do all we can to restore your data and fix any issues. Thank you for your continued support.” 

Find out more about FFXIV by reading our exclusive interview featuring Yoshi-P. Game Informer’s Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker Review. Read Game Informer’sAfter that, ranking for every Final Fantasy mainline game. 

[Source: Polygon]

Have you been a Final Fantasy XIV winner of the housing lottery? Please comment below.