Interacting NPCs with a routine
This game would be more lively if it had more NPCs and events that would happen in a cycle. - Like if a mail moogle would roam on the trail on the world map between cities and drop mail and have quests for you to do when he passed by.
- or wild chocobos running about.
- or a thief that appears outside a shop on certain days and certain times of days. a boy that runs around the city asking about his lost mother(don't see much kids and elderly people in ffxiv).
- a ship that docks at ports on different times of the day.
- people that walk into stores and then stare at the counter and then walks to a different store and then to player housing.