Originally Posted by
Solowing
As somebody who spends most of the time near my own plot. What reason do you have for coming to my ward if you don't have a plot here? What activities outside player created ones direct you to it? I am here because I enjoy the quiet from the hustle and bustle of Limsa in a space of my own creation. It would be nice to have more active neighbours. But once you have a set housing design and you feel "finished" there's no reason to stay out in the wards unless you create your own fun within it or you enjoy the quiet.
Everyone comments about a housing crisis but also comments that wards are dead. Seems like housing is a must have, until they have it. Players build what they want, have their fun and then move on to other things, the actual dedicated that are using their plots/Apts actively, venue owners use their plots and apartments, housing designers, and those who enjoy the quiet away from the masses are a minority. Most get the thing that's so hard to get, decorate it, move on and maintain a subscription to not lose that investment.
Now if they, say, reworked the housing system to bake plots in the main city hubs of Limsa/gridonia/uldah, it would be used FAR more since its visible and not out of the way in hub areas while still having access to hub city services. Like Stormwind but if the houses around the city actually had a player who owned that plot. So if you get bored you would wander in and out of peoples plots, and from that you might run into some emergent adventures.