The House areas doesn't have any interaction ?

So I don't have a house. But I stayed a lot on house zones because it's beautiful especially Mist zone. The people stay in their houses doing nothing just training their chocobos. So I normally enter on the houses just to look them. And the people tell me to leave. I can't even get near. This game have a community problem like WoW. I'm thinking if I had a house, I wouldn't have any neighbor cool as a friend. The point is that you guys are too excited to get a house. But this it's just another alone place on that game.






Merry Christmas to all Hyureans !

If they wanted you to really leave they would have locked the houses so only FC members or shared friends could enter. I call it fair game. :3

I even have on my housing plaque saying "come on in". I snoop around others' houses all day.
If they don't want you in they can lock the door.

My house is an open house. You're welcome to come in and snoop around all day; I've left the door unlocked for that reason.

My guess? You interrupted their RP (or their ERP.....) and that's why they asked you to leave.

My house has always been unlocked for last year or whatever. I did lock it at first though just cause I liked crafting alone in it. If I suddenly get a visitor it's kind of fun. I gave tenant rights to a few friends but they don't use their teleport privileges to visit much. :x

My house isn't all that original I guess anymore. I made the moogle exterior and put lots of interesting artifacts and stuff in it (Just bought stuff to make the Savage Gordian Bureau and chair so yay I guess?). I wish I got more visitors. It's hard to put anything so rare in it that people maybe wanna see. My next objective is maybe that Mhachi Coffin if I can find materials to purchase. I doubt I'll ever see it or materials on marketboard though. ; ;

There are lots of houses that look like mine or have similar stuff inside. I wish I was a special snowflake so I had more people come visit. ; ; There really is nothing I can do to it that anyone else can also do.

Yep. People were all excited because they were 100% sure that the wards were empty because people had abandoned their houses but the reality is that people simply don't spend a lot of time there because there is nothing interesting to do in these places. Personally, I kinda wish they hadn't done player housing at all and see it as a waste of dev time and resources. Would be better if all the time spent on housing stuff would be spent on open world content.

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Originally Posted by hobostew

Yep. People were all excited because they were 100% sure that the wards were empty because people had abandoned their houses but the reality is that people simply don't spend a lot of time there because there is nothing interesting to do in these places. Personally, I kinda wish they hadn't done player housing at all and see it as a waste of dev time and resources. Would be better if all the time spent on housing stuff would be spent on open world content.

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About 70% of my game time is spent in housing wards, and everyone I personally know is the same. They are the best places to idle. So that's pretty farfetched.

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Originally Posted by hobostew

Yep. People were all excited because they were 100% sure that the wards were empty because people had abandoned their houses but the reality is that people simply don't spend a lot of time there because there is nothing interesting to do in these places. Personally, I kinda wish they hadn't done player housing at all and see it as a waste of dev time and resources. Would be better if all the time spent on housing stuff would be spent on open world content.

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A lot of my guild mates & I when I'm crafting, hang at the residential areas. There are material suppliers, repairers, chocobo training, summoning bell, market board, never-ending journey, armouire & grade 6 dark matter sale NPCs that exist there for functionality. It isn't very active in the wards 2-8 on my server though which is why Ward 1's tend to be more desirable, this is nullified of course if active FCs co-exist together in other wards making it more interesting.

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Originally Posted by hobostew

Yep. People were all excited because they were 100% sure that the wards were empty because people had abandoned their houses but the reality is that people simply don't spend a lot of time there because there is nothing interesting to do in these places. Personally, I kinda wish they hadn't done player housing at all and see it as a waste of dev time and resources. Would be better if all the time spent on housing stuff would be spent on open world content.

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What is interesting is subjective. I spend almost all of my downtime either at my personal home or my Free Company's Estate, more total time than any other zone in the game by far.

I suppose I shouldn't generalize since I don't want to claim to speak for most people but I know when I sit down to play I actually want to actually do something and not just admire how pretty my house is. Idling about is not engaging gameplay to me. It's convenient for crafting I'll give you that but not really that far above Limsa Lominsa with it's aetheryte so close to the market boards.

Housing itself is more of a socialization thing rather than what you think.
It is your personalized space where you can invite your friends to. Or a place to escape the RTM.

I think it depends on the area and the people, my FC has a house in a fairly active ward with a few other fc's nearby who use the same market board, so we interact with each other regularly and sometimes form groups and do content together.

I can agree the wards need work.

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It's convenient for crafting I'll give you that but not really that far above Limsa Lominsa with it's aetheryte so close to the market boards.

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Personally, I'm easily distracted with other people around while trying to craft, so I generally do it at my house or boyfriend's house or friend's house. Especially if it's anything risky/expensive where hitting the wrong button is costly. Housing is one of the few things about the game that has kept me playing. I mean sure, it's a novelty thing, but I feel a bit more attached to my character and the world around me as a result.

To OP: When I first got my house early this year, some of my neighbors came and brought food as house-warming gifts and welcomed me to the neighborhood and talked with me for a while. Things have died down a lot since then in my neighborhood, but some wards are definitely more active than others.

I spend about 80% of my online time in housing wards, only interrupted by brief instances and teleports to buy new tomestone stuff.
About half of my active circle of friends ingame are people I have met there. We had a great neighbourhood in the Mist, despite some abandoned plots, several active FCs and a few personal houses were around. We all met up at the market board each day, exchanging rumors, news and opinions. We danced for each other, gave fashion tips and dumped the stuff retainers brought us on each other. Sometimes we made plans to try and beat Alex Savage with "the neighbourhood alliance" ;)
When someone new moved in, we immediately went to welcome - and annoy - him, making him a part of that neighbourhood too^^

I moved to Lavender Beds today and wonder if I'll have that kind of experience as well. But yeah, the open wards make housing super social IF YOU WANT IT TO BE that way.

My house is open to all, so obviously I'd never tell anyone to "get out" or "go away", but...there's a reason I chose that plot in Lavender Beds in the top left corner that is a full Sprint distance away from the nearest other houses and MB. Not interested in peoples' crafting spam and random chatter, sorry.

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Idling about is not engaging gameplay to me. It's convenient for crafting I'll give you that but not really that far above Limsa Lominsa with it's aetheryte so close to the market boards.

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There's waaaaaaay more items available from the vendor inside a house than from the ones in Limsa Lominsa.

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Originally Posted by Aethaeryn

Personally, I'm easily distracted with other people around while trying to craft, so I generally do it at my house or boyfriend's house or friend's house. Especially if it's anything risky/expensive where hitting the wrong button is costly.

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Same. I hate when people camp on me and spam Holy or Mudras and other crap like that. Very distracting.