Honestly i like this game, but it gets more and more uninteresting. The stuff i like dosnt get updates, there are no new features and the thing i was really looking forward will be most liky ingame at some point next year. Remember Ishgard Housing announcement with the release of Shadowbringers? It was such a big advertisment before the release and it took nearly 2 1/2 years before people could finaly get a house there. Sure the rework of the PvP is a nice and welcome thing but that dosnt keep me playing this game everyday.

The Features i still miss, is shared housing for all you alts, workshop for private houses and something like an account bank. I bet there are a lot of ppl like me that abuse the FC system to create a small private FC for their chars, to be able to use all thouse features that wouldnt be possible with a private house.

After a long long break i started last month with ESO again (as sub). Sure its also not perfect but there is so much to do and new things that no matter if you are new or a returner you will have more than enough stuff to discover for more than a half year non stop playing. Also another thing i mentioned while playing ESO the world feels way more lively than in FFXIV and every little shit npc has voice acting, something that we can only dream off. Also ESO has a nice varity off actions that maybe could be used as inspiration for FFXIV: Public Dungeons and Open World dungeons which could be done solo, Normal and Elite dungeons (which are same as here), Open World bosses (which spawn way more frequent than here), Open World group activities (something equal to bosses but with normal enemys), thievery (yes you can steal from npcs), artifact searching (with enough time you can get powerfull legendary gear solo), Thousands of quests (all with voice) aaannnddd Housing for everyone yes, you can even own multiple houses and use them with all your chars on that server (they are handled like collecting mounts or pets but accountwide) and they will never ever get demolished. Also thanks to way lvling and new stuff is handled in this game you gear from years ago is still viable and you are ready to go even after a 3 or 5 year long break.