Btw I was going to ignore this but let me explain something. IF this REALLY happened and it's all true. The devs, IF they can go back and VERIFY that these players had SHOULDN'T of won those houses then and ONLY then those houses in question would be ONLY re-auctioned off. Its not fair to penalize EVERYBODY for a few small mistakes.
To late in my book anyway to get fixed. It's pretty well over with and these plyaers have options to deal with the houses how they see fit IMHO.
I can understand the concerns about the actual winners, nonetheless, "if" it is verified and proved with an investigation that the drawing was flawed, can we dismiss the flaws as to only affecting those 2 incidents ??
The problem with software coding, is that, sometimes, results can be quite unpredictable and much unexpected. "If" the drawing was to be proved as flawed, then I do not think this should be ignored.
I mean, there is a lot of players who spent a lot of gold on tickets and won nothing. Leaving all things as they are I would not think would be fair towards all of the rest of participants to the Lottery.
Now, I do understand that this would not be an easy decision "if" it is verified and proved that the drawing was flawed.
Yet, perhaps, other avenues could be seeked like some sort of compensation other than messing up with the current winners.
That is, "if" it is verified that the first drawing was flawed for whatever problems to the code, a second drawing takes place and sees who are the winners.
At this point, this second batch of winners is purged of the names of those players who won anything in the first drawing and the remaining winners of the second drawing will be eligible for a compensation.
Now, the compensation could be anything. From gold, to new, exclusive items, to perhaps (which is the option I would prefer....) a priority option to place as first whenever a new player Town like Magincia will be created. That is, rather than having another Lottery, this second batch winners will already be declared as winners before hand for the plots to be assigned in this new Town. The plots would be assigned to these second drawing winners randomly, not having them bought any ticket. Such a new Town could come perhaps with a future Booster or mini-booster.
Anyways, these are just ideas, anything else could work just as well. The compensation should, of course, be comparable to the worth of the Magincia plot that they "should" have won but didn't, because the first drawing was flawed ("if" it is verified and proved that it was flawed....).
That's how I see it.