You want people to return - please add housing and

[VanilleFang]

Not for anyone who wasn't around with millions of gil in the initial land rush or don't camp the housing sales board 24/7 to try to grab one of the very few 'demolitions'.

This is an exaggeration. My brothers and I were able to find a lot fairly easily about 2 weeks ago. I know it can be pretty much impossible to find a lot on very popular servers, but it's not like that everywhere. And Adamantoise isn't even that slow of a server so it's not like there aren't other people trying to buy houses.

Seriously, at the same time we bought and built our house there was another group of three who just bought a lot a little but away from us too.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

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The NPCs explain why you're able to return to Ul'dah despite the hoopla that went down. As for the dragons, you aren't exactly important to Nidhogg until you confront him in The Arey and even then, he doesn't think you're a threat until the final battle in 3.3. You also answered your own question on why Nidhogg's brood isn't just attacking you randomly; they're preparing the next assault. Even if you were to get attacked randomly, I don't think anyone would enjoy it if they are not doing the main story and wanted to do a side quest and are forced to slog through dragon after dragon in very boring battles. You want world impact changes, but at the same time, there will never be any major changes where things are closed off or the like because everyone needs to have equal access to areas.

[Nix]

This is an exaggeration. My brothers and I were able to find a lot fairly easily about 2 weeks ago. I know it can be pretty much impossible to find a lot on very popular servers, but it's not like that everywhere. And Adamantoise isn't even that slow of a server so it's not like there aren't other people trying to buy houses.

Seriously, at the same time we bought and built our house there was another group of three who just bought a lot a little but away from us too.

This might be the case for you, but on the handful of servers I've moved between, housing is absolutely packed.
I just moved to Balmung and did nothing but camp apartments for 3 days until one showed up - fat chance I was going to get a house... An open house on Balmung is rarer than a unicorn sighting.

I do agree with what Pint says - I think SE needs to rework their housing; in FFXI you had your own house with storage etc right from the get-go. I'm not sure on the logistics of how to implement something like that here (there's a reason I'm in healthcare and not computer science), but I would hope that 4.0 brings some awesome changes in that regard, and makes housing a bit more accessible.

[HyoMinPark]

Housing does need some fixing, in the sense that it's so limited, and that alts from the same account can purchase a plot each, further limiting the plots. I don't think that housing holds a lot of importance for new players, or even some returning players. And I don't think it's the main reason so many people take breaks from the game. But hopefully something will be done about it.

I still think a plot should be account-wide. Allow for sharing with all alts on that server. I don't see why this isn't a thing, and I don't think it would be particularly hard to implement. It would also stop those that have 4-5 alts, and each alt has their own house. Because that's the main issue I see on my server, at least. These alts taking up all the plots (and I know they belong to the same individual, as they all have the same last names/are in the same FC--at best, one is a main, one is a bond mate, and the other 3 are alts, but still....)

[SpiritMuse]

the Brass Blades were looking for us, but we owned a house and could go freely into and out of it, this was especially laughable if you owned a house in the Goblet. Granted ya you could go back into Ul Dah after this and it breaks the game

If you talk to the various Blades you'll find out that a lot of the Blades (and Crystal Braves, for that matter) aren't really looking for you very hard, either because they're friends/fans and can't believe you'd ever do such a thing, or because they're too intimidated by your power to even attempt an arrest. That's why you can still go around Uldah.

[Jetstream_Fox]

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I'm well aware as to why they don't, but again that takes away from the overall importance of that scene, completely downplays the entire significance of it based off the hunch that we'd never do it. Same with Nidhogg, we beat him and he vanishes so he can prepare for the next assault while we deal with political nonsense? Him being a dragon and Ishgard not being truthful able to defend itself makes Nidhogg look entirely weak after the first encounter. They could have easily made his brood invade sometime during the events of the vault to keep Nidhoggs presence a vengeful powerful being, which in case would have lead to Archbishop transforming into Thordan, instead of him transforming because we're spreading the truth about the Dragonsong war.

The only time this games story really had the ability to add anything significant was with the Warriors of Darkness, which got written out almost immediately and how Bahamut and his brood was being constantly tortured. If this MMO is supposed to be story driven, yet can't drive a story when there is no significant values or fear of consequences. How is it supposed to bring players back? Because let's face it, reworking the entire battle system isn't going to do anything when every single fight is still going to be built within the trinity system resulting in more AoE dancing but this time in a new area. Hell I haven't done anything in this game since finishing relic, all I've done in the past 21 days according to my fc log is login and reset the counter on my house. Which I wouldn't even do if I wasn't sharing it with 3 other people, which is sad that I feel them losing a house is more impactful then 98% of the storytelling they've put out.

[Zeonx]

Its not housing, its the lack of content, also I think its how the content is delivered.

I noticed when I came back, there is only 1 place to get umbrite when I was looking it up, there is no way for someone like me to continue my relic and have it as a weapon I can use and I am sure others still who were playing don't have the time.

300 a umbrite then you have sand by the time you are done, the next patch rolls out and the work you have done is obsoleted.

When you finish content also there is nothing to do but stand around, there is no NM's to hunt for gear on the outside world, hunts aren't even a viable source because you've done all your gear.

Deep dungeon is fun but when you get done with that what then?

Wish there were more things to do outside in the field as a server.

besides gear and other stuff just something to do golden saucer needs a big update also.

[Faeon]

Its not housing, its the lack of content, also I think its how the content is delivered.

I noticed when I came back, there is only 1 place to get umbrite when I was looking it up, there is no way for someone like me to continue my relic and have it as a weapon I can use and I am sure others still who were playing don't have the time.

300 a umbrite then you have sand by the time you are done, the next patch rolls out and the work you have done is obsoleted.

When you finish content also there is nothing to do but stand around, there is no NM's to hunt for gear on the outside world, hunts aren't even a viable source because you've done all your gear.

Deep dungeon is fun but when you get done with that what then?

Wish there were more things to do outside in the field as a server.

besides gear and other stuff just something to do golden saucer needs a big update also.

What you mentioned is a problem with gaming in general, there will never be enough
content to satisfy the playerbase, never. The best thing to-do is play other games if possible other hobbies etc.

[Jetstream_Fox]

What you mentioned is a problem with gaming in general, there will never be enough
content to satisfy the playerbase, never. The best thing to-do is play other games if possible other hobbies etc.

Actually they have a lot of content, it's how they have built it and designed things that correlate within those systems.

Battles are painfully scripted
Crafting is dull
Gathering is boring
MSQ is all scattered

SE can facilitate the changes needed to revamp the core of the game, the problem lies within their willingness to actually do just that.

[Riardon]

The game is plagued by "memory limitations" as per Yoshi. Acccording to him he can't add such features without stressing the game server or the game engine or both. So it takes time to implement new plots. I don't know how exactly they coded the game and how the code is running on their servers and what servers they have but this is what he answers when we ask something "more". Whatever those "limitations" are the dev team must overcome them if they want the game to grow more. There are some other games where a player can own up to 5 houses. For such a big MMORPG by a well established company the game is rather too limited.