Am I the only one sick of starter cities?

[DamianFatale]

Don't get me wrong, I love Limsa Lominsa, Gridania, and Uldah, but I've been staring at them for years. I want the holidays to be in other cities, I want to have the community participate in another city for more content. I hate how each expansion leads to its city emptying after its said and done. Heck, sometimes its not even the expansion anymore. After the patch content is dried up, people just go back to the original three. It's nice, but I wish there were more incentive to diversify and go outside of those cities. I know those cities are where new players get to be, but it would be cool if there was more incentive to go beyond the starting points of our adventure. That's one issue that I have noticed with instanced games. They rarely diversify in its player population past the starting areas.

Sharlayan gave me hope because of how the marketboard is right next to the aetherite. It has so much potential to be a new player hub long term, but people have already abandoned that even on Balmung. It makes me sad.

[Ritsuka-55]

To see the amount of garbage you can find in the starting cities, I honestly prefer they stay there and keep other cities clean.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

Maybe allow world visit function to other major city/hub aetherytes like Ishgard, More Donut, Idyllshire, Kugane, Rhalgr’s Reach, Crystarium, Eulmore, Old Sharean, & Radz.

Other than that, I’m unsure how.

Did they ever touched this in any LL/Q&A?

[Ilisidi]

The three starting cities are the easiest to access requiring level 15 MSQ. Every other city requires extensive MSQ progress.
Also most of the other cities don't have an FC chest. None have an GC seal exchange. There's also the airship to the Gold Saucer, Ishgard and Radz-at-Han and lowbie vendors for Fashion Report equipment.

And Gridania has each of those plus an Inn tightly packed around the aetheryte. Even if the events happened elsewhere, I'd mostly hang out there.
(It also helps that my heart belonged to greenery and trees since Windurst.)

[Thaciscokidd]

For events and holidays at least, they would have to significantly change how early(or late) you get to a city and/or just straight up stop story locking cities. Cause how would a player feel if they couldn't do a lets say a FF 16 crossover event in Sharlayan just because they haven't reached that content yet?

[kaynide]

Honestly, it's not a bad idea to have more places low level can access a la Gold Saucer, but I just don't think it's worth the dev time.

Though, I also don't think it's a big ask to have events in older major cities and/or to have events for 50+ or 60+ or whatever.

Of course everyone also knows as soon as that happens our lovely forum trolls will be there to complain.

I would be curious, what is the average level/progress of an account in FFXIV.
Maybe 1/2 way to that average is a good "cap" for events. Again, an account and its highest/furthest along character, not alts.

[sagacious]

The three starting cities are the easiest to access requiring level 15 MSQ. Every other city requires extensive MSQ progress.
Also most of the other cities don't have an FC chest. None have an GC seal exchange. There's also the airship to the Gold Saucer, Ishgard and Radz-at-Han and lowbie vendors for Fashion Report equipment.

And Gridania has each of those plus an Inn tightly packed around the aetheryte. Even if the events happened elsewhere, I'd mostly hang out there.
(It also helps that my heart belonged to greenery and trees since Windurst.)

Yes you are correct in every aspect.

[Larirawiel]

I do not see the problem. If you do not like the starting cities then do not visit them.


Cheers

[ryouma17]

More Donut

nice to see iam not the only one that calls it that

[DamianFatale]

I do not see the problem. If you do not like the starting cities then do not visit them.


Cheers

Ah, a classic forum response. This post isn’t about hating the starting cities, it’s about wanting more diversity in the way we interact with cities out of those environments. I think you missed the point of the thread.