Quote Originally Posted by Elexia View Post
Then what's the overall point of it? lol. In the end it's still up to the community to actually spread themselves out, in FFXI the main storyline lead you to Jeuno, yet people still spread themselves out because each city had it's own benefit, i.e low level gear/prices in nations, Dunes being the XP spot and it was always much much quicker to get to from cities etc.

The storyline may send you to ul'dah, but that doesn't mean you need to STAY there for the rest of your game career, you can easily go to Gridania and Limsa, people just choose not to and SE can't fix this.
Because you can turn it on when you're in a city and looking for things that might be in another city. That's why every big name MMO, aside from FFXI and FFXIV, have a Trade Chat (available only in cities), a LFG chat (available only when looking for a group), and any other situational global chat channels. And believe me, almost every person will make use of these when they're available.

People gather in Ul'dah now because it's the closest thing to a global LFG chat that's available. If you're in Gridania and Limsa Lominsa, you miss out on so many possible levelup, dungeon, and Ifrit/Moogle parties, the game feels like a solo game. The global chat channels will not forcibly spread people out to the other cities, but it will alleviate a lot of the congestion and make the other cities NOT be ghost towns.