Quote Originally Posted by gifthorse View Post
The main reason it was lonely was because it was totally instanced. You didn't have neighbours, a view, etc.

Other games allow you to physically build your house anywhere you want in the game world, providing its flat land. FFXI didn't even let you choose the shape of your mog house or the colour of your walls etc.

I understand this is SE and they hate freedom so we'll never see something so interesting in FFXIV, but some kind of happy compromise such as an instanced zone with tree-lined streets and neighbours or something would be ok.
building and designing! you got my vote!