Over the past two or three weeks I have started to watch my free company members log on less and less and we have gone from having 3-4 active coil groups down to one if we are lucky. I myself am on my 5th job just to give me something to do. I am still enjoying the game and have plenty left to do but it just feels like the community as a whole is shrinking day by day.

I don't know the reason, I think it's probably a mix of a lot of things, the server delay issues are my most major gripe but it feels like the whole economy and crafting system is self defeating. Our FC was so excited when housing was announced and even though the price was high we really had the goal to get the largest house. But now that everyone wants a house people aren't spending money and almost nothing is profitable to farm or sell anymore.

I have ran CT 17 times since the patch and have yet to even see the new housing item drop, while this isn't exactly a problem I am glad it is very rare but if what I hear is true that it takes your item for the week I don't see many FC's ever getting this because people are not going to want to give up their one peice of loot for the week.

I really want this game to succeed, FFXI was my first mmo and I was so happy when a "sequal" was created. I am just worried that SE tryed to ape the 900 lb gorilla in the room too much instead of going their own way. If 2.2 doesn't come soon and give a lot of new stuff I fear for the longevity of our FC.

I don't really have a specific goal for this thread, I am not trying to complain about the game itself as much as just general frustration with seeing my friends lose interest in the game so quickly and what if anything can be done about it?