People do flock to the cities even with houses. It was mordhona iddylshire eulmore. Wherever the tome vendors scrips and other key vendors are you'll see big crowds. And limsa especially mb and bell 3 seconds from the aeteheryre.
The issue for many people is. OK my house is in Shirogane. Bobs is in mist, Jack's is in the goblet. Jill's is in gridania. Where are we all going to meet? Boom limsa aetheryte or maybe radz at han.
Huge apologies if this was on Sunday, when all the Lala FC were online at the same time for an EB :3
We all got congested in limsa, Shroud and Costa del sol during the wedding and afterparty and it would have affected new players too :3
Really wish they would just open housing though, im really disappointed that we have to deal with the lottery system straight away when we dont have the same housing congestion issues that other DC's have.
Half the population that disappeared were all bots.
If you want proof of this, have a look at all the FC's ranked below 40 with spam names like 'asdodadf'.
They are all level 25 bots with rank 6 FC's waiting to buy up all the housing on 6.1 release.
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...ing/fc/weekly/
Watch how congested it becomes in 6.1 when these thousands of bots log back in to attempt to purchase up a ton of land to sell on the blackmarket.