Quote Originally Posted by Melichoir View Post
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It's just an opinion (also my experience), but as a player since ARR beta, players isolation started both at the PF release and after some dramas related to Coil statics, FC chests thiefs and chat shouts, if not malicious, at least with a dubious humor.

I don't think instancied housing would change things. People still have use of the cities aetherytes, at least when they visit other worlds or just because they travel from an area to another. I don't see why instancied housing would make cities empty. Because of minions and mounts show-off (or weird RP/emote spam) some people already avoiding some places as much as possible because of the mess it creates on the screen (when it doesn't lead to have lags and other latency problems). Some NPCs remain only in cities too.

I understand the problem about some features people ask to be added to housing, but for example, take the MB in housing disctricts, some people where complaing it would kill MB in cities... do you feel it actually happened?

The game often look empty but it is mainly due to the number of maps, the routine feeling (sound more fair than a "lack of content") between two patchs and the fact to play during the rush hours or outside of them.