Retainers and FC's Not Useful?

[Gilthas]

Is the point of this to make the housing districts look like there are actually people in them? Housing wards are always dead, maybe this is to create an illusion of more ppl playing?

If they really wanted to get more people in the housing districts they would add stuff to do there.

So what exactly... is the point of this feature? Cluttering the lawn with NPCs that serve no purpose other than... keeping you from walking the 30 feet to the closest market board? I mean development time was spent on this and I am just trying to understand why someone greenlit this.

It's called flavour. What's the point of having furniture too? Or multiple house options? By your logic FC houses should just have a garden plot and chocobo stables since everything else either serves no function (overwhelming majority of furniture) or provides services that can be obtained elsewhere (retainer bell, armoire, vendors).

Basically, stop being a stick in the mud.

sooo that means no extra storage for the fc but now anyone who has access to your retainers now has acces to your retainers storage and gil?? hmmmm ...

Not sure how you reached that conclusion.