if anyone says "instanced housing" i'm straight up giving you two big baby thumbs down
here's my useless features off the top of my head:
- a music unlock list. I don't think(?) we have this feature, but similar to RuneScape's music list: the game tells you when you've unlocked a new music track, the track name, and where you've unlocked it at/which quests unlock it. You can play it in game whenever you want, found it super useful since the game has like well over 800 tracks and it can be hard to YouTube without knowing exactly what it is (plus, sometimes when on my laptop, can't handle both the browser and the game)
- an automatic way to stop combat with the stupid training dummy
- new games for the golden saucer
- symbol art ala PSO2, essentially chat images that could be inserted into the game. a lot of creatives memes people shared in game, custom emote art, ect. unfortunately the internet being how it is, a lot of degeneracy came with it, but dang I miss the feature lol. it made chatting in the game a lot more fun