Why are the Bard class and houssing so rare in mmos?

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A lot of big names have Bard classes.

Square-Enix, for instance. FFXI ( bard , housing , housing related buffs ) and FFXIV ( bard , housing ) both have both of these things, and FFXIV has 27 million players .

BDO, too, has both housing and bards (though they have a different name (search "Awakening")), but then, BDO has a lot of unusual class names.

It looks like Bards can also be found in Lineage 2 , and you can get housing in ArcheAge , as well.

I certainly accept that a lot of games don't have a Bard class, and (as a biased bard) they definitely should. But these aren't exactly un-heard-of names in the MMO world, so it's a bit of a stretch at least to say no large group (see: Square-Enix) has ever done it.

EDIT: Updated the statistics on FFXIV player count. I get the impression that this site 's statistics are a bit inaccurate, given the 29,000 daily active players listed for Ashes of Creation...

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Or, you know, ArcheAge, one of the primary inspirations for Ashes of Creation, and a game many forum-goers may be familiar with as a result.