A month after Sq. Enix shut down the power for gamers to purchase homes in its MMO recreation, producer Yoshi-P has lastly confirmed the Ultimate Fantasy XIV Housing Lottery return date for later this month – with upkeep and testing kicking off on Monday.
As of patch 6.1 with the Endwalker growth, the Ultimate Fantasy XIV workforce launched a housing system for the Empyreum residential district. That is ruled by a lottery system the place gamers get randomly chosen for a plot of land, which labored nicely – till it didn’t, selecting the successful variety of zero regardless of no gamers having the ability to choose it.
In a brand new replace, producer Naoki Yoshida confirms that the workforce has lastly “accomplished preparations to implement our fixes and restore lottery knowledge”. The workforce will conduct upkeep to revive the right lottery outcomes this Monday, Could 16, and any “short-term suspensions” on shopping for plot purchases and relocations might be lifted. Winners may have till the following lottery cycle to say their plots of land, and even when their ticket was refunded they’ll nonetheless be capable of finalise the acquisition – though Yoshida asks that gamers kindly return their refunded deposit voluntarily.
As soon as Sq. Enix confirms that every one the fixes have been profitable, the housing lottery will correctly resume on Could 26 at 8am PDT / 11am EDT / 4pm BST. In closing, Yoshida extends his “deepest apologies for the difficulty and inconvenience these points have induced” and the workforce will “do every part in our energy to soundly restore your knowledge, repair any remaining points, and convey you all a good and useful housing lottery system”.
Elsewhere in Ultimate Fantasy information, Yoshida confirms that Ultimate Fantasy XVI is in its “remaining levels” of growth and its subsequent trailer is finished, apparently – so count on to see it quickly.