Quote Originally Posted by BellBixbite View Post
Maybe your wards are empty of life buy I interact with my neighbors all the time and my ward is alive. I worked very hard to welcome neighboring houses and interact with them to make a small community. The RP venues also make those wards very lively as well. If you want your ward lively you need to work to make it so. Nothing is given without effort

Housing is not essential to the game. It's mostly for RP purposes so people saying it is essessential are just plain wrong. It is a trophy of a sorts. Instanced Housing completely takes away from the community and would honestly make ff14 feel more like a solo player game. The fact that you can mostly get through the game solo is a benefit and a fault in it. Why make it feel like even more of a solo experience. I'm only talking about your first play through for the solo experience.
Quote Originally Posted by MicahZerrshia View Post
As someone who has had a house since they introduced housing I have to say, this is a null point, there is absolutely zero interaction in the housing wards. You barely even see other people. The one or two ppl who come on here and talk about how friendly their neighbors are, do not even in the slightest sense, represent the wards of ffxiv. .
Found them! I knew at least one would come out of the woodwork to tell me I am wrong. But then they doubled down and said housing was exclusively for RP purposes and I just sat back and laughed and laughed at not only proving my point but also being 'that guy' you know the "We need them for me and mine not you and yours" type.