Shell FCs are a bigger problem than we think...

[Valfreyja]

MMO are social things, yes. Doesn't mean you have to always be social.

And there is still no reason social groups should get access to special exclusive content, just because a bunch of people decided to bunch together.

Not saying I don't enjoy the social aspect or grouping. What I object to is the exclusivity of the Workshop. And if just the leader and staff are running the Workshop, even if the FC benefits from the gil made, it's still just the leader and staff leeching off their membership.

FCs have ways to fun themselves without needing the workshop. There are a bunch of them. Should be easy for them to farm PotD, HoH, Bozja, Eureka, Primals for weapon materials. Lots of things they can get and sell. Not to mention Treasure Hunt loots with map farms.

All of that, yet they still need the Workshop to be exclusive? Since the Garden is not exclusive to an FC, it is exclusive to houses in general.

But at least SE is starting to take steps for some of this, so maybe they'll open the workshop to more people.

[SlickPaws]

With all due respect, who are you to dictate how people run their own FCs? If you join one, don't get access to the workshop and subs/airships immediately and that's an issue for you, that's a *you* problem - and if so, you should probably form your own FC where you can share everything communally. For most of us though, time, effort and gil have been put into unlocking and then using these features, we shouldn't just open these things up to everyone who joins simply because you asked.