Lack of 'server community' in FFXIV - a nostalgic perspective

[Teiren]

Like perhaps the ideal thing would be to remove the "servers" entirely as a thing, and rather let players toggle which "instance" of that zone they want to go to, and for underpopulated areas, there would be no need for more than one instance channel. It would essentially self-balance, and in congested zones it would spin up additional instances.

All of this is exactly how Guild Wars 2 works. I didn't play it a lot, but it was a somewhat strange and fantastic thing to experience. The real issue is that basically every single thing is instanced in FFXIV. Of course The Hunt communities are the only "real" community. That's the only real thing to do out in the world that takes any real amount of time! That is, after the first few months of the expansion when people are levelling jobs on FATEs. Also, it's ridiculous that they removed having to go out in the world to enter raids. It's like they decided to completely give up on server community/game world for some reason.