If you are homeless, then it is by choice. The innkeepers let us all crash at their place for free for as long as you want. We can totally eat their food on the cheap as well. It ain’t a bad gig really.
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I’d rather decorate my character than a house 
but hey, people enjoy different things.
I don’t think people realize how much they’d enjoy housing.
It’s the same level of added gameplay as transmog.
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This is so true. You start off giving it the side-eye, tell yourself you don’t need it. You ignore it. Then it sneaks up on you and the next thing you know, you’re 300 hours deep into cosmetic transmog runs and you have no idea how you got there.
Housing items could open up a whole new host of things for professions to craft. Alchemists making dyes and stains that are used by leatherworkers and blacksmiths to create different colored furniture. Jewelcrafters cut gems used by Enchanters to make decorative lamps. Scribes make posters, books, and decorative scrolls. Combine books with Star Wood, and you get bookcases for a home library. Tailors make rugs and decorative backpacks, curtains and beds.
The environment team makes so many fantastic items to decorate Azeroth. The art team knocks it out of the park with a home run every expansion. Let us make use of the things they make to create our own spaces!
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Sadly it’s all about how they put it in. Blizzard doesn’t have the ability to put these homes in the open world. They would need some sort of system to put it in that could handle it.
This is why I put forth my idea of Guild plots. It would basically be a empty zone in which player housing could happen under the guild. You zone into it from a single entry point in the capital city.
It would beef up guilds as well. The guild would basically build their own zone. It also would allow others to look at your stuff.
A lot of us would rather enjoy housing. There has been however, a loss of faith that Blizz could actually pull housing off. I mean housing was planned for Vanilla, scraped, then they popped out the dooky that was Garrisons. Pardon me as I remain skeptical of Blizz actually pulling off housing.
The answer to your question is a thing I like to call “Grind Transference”. MMOs need grinding since players will always consume content way faster than developers could ever produce.
Alright, I’ll buy that. I hadn’t really considered it because personally the raid/M+ grind is what draws me to WoW in the first place, so that grind is where my fun lies, but you definitely have a point.
You’re literally describing the garrison here. They tried it, and it failed horribly. This kind of self-contained design may have worked for RuneScape, but doesn’t for WoW.
Okay, full disclosure, I never even downloaded WoW until halfway through Legion, and I’ve only ever leveled in LFD so I’ve never even seen these garrisons people keep talking about.
I was not aware they tried what I was suggesting with garrisons. What exactly caused them to fail? An issue with the garrisons themselves or the fact that the expansion was generally considered to be trash?
Either way I stand corrected. Carry on 
Popular speculation is that garrisons was taking up so much dev resources, that the rest of the expansion started getting lots of content cuts.
What do you think the wipe is for?
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What would be the point of housing anyway?
Well I might be the odd duck here, but I still love my Garrison. It’s my characters role-play home, when not at war, or if on leave.
You made your home in a universe that is collapsing in on itself due to it being an invalid timeline? Well, you are a warlock, so crazy risks I guess is par for the course.
Bold of you to assume this is even an rpg anymore lol
Blizz would have you think otherwise
Invalid timeline? I think it is very valid to the people living there. Never liked that idea that it was going to be destroyed. I always thought it is an alternate world, one where things went a different way and we got to see it. I like to think that it continues on,… and maybe someday, we can go back and fix what Yrel did to it. Restore the balance.
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I am not the greatest fan of it either, but then again, the timeline won’t stop eating itself just because we don’t want it to. The WoD AU is doomed to oblivion.
My mind is a mystery… 
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If they fix the problems that existed in Warlords of Draenor, I would be completely down with a return to Draenor. IMHO they should culminate such a story with it exploding into our reality in the place the original planet was, with Outland’s pieces orbiting it.
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If they add housing they need to add real estate tax and charge 10kg a month to keep your house
“More or less depending which city you live in”
Okay, that’s fair that you didn’t get to experience them. You didn’t know what you were asking for, lol.
Garrisons failed for a few reasons.
- You couldn’t customize them thematically. Alliance got Human Castle of Humans. Horde got Orc Pointy Stick Fort. And that was it. Visually, every single garrison was identical at a glance.
- You couldn’t choose what zone to place your garrison in. Horde will forever be stuck in the land of ice and snow. Alliance will always be in perpetual twilight.
- The garrison provided way too many profession perks, obliterating the need for any player to seek out other players for profession-specific items.
- It provided way too many resources, flooding the market and making gathering professions nearly obsolete.
- You could not decorate.
- You could not share your garrison with people who weren’t in your party, or who were not the leader of a party. Any trophies you earned were for your eyes only. Not that it mattered because you couldn’t decorate and every horde garrison looked like dookie.
- All garrisons shared the same phased space, creating massive lag as hundreds of thousands of shards were being processed by the servers all in the same location.
- Garrisons separated you from the rest of the player base, creating a false single-player game in what should be an MMO.
And the most terrible culprit for creating hate:
- Garrisons were forced content. They were not optional. You had to make one to even get into the Draenor storyline, there was no way around it. you had to complete the quests for it in order to fly. You couldn’t just opt out. Players hate it when this kind of stuff is forced on them and made to feel like a chore.
Expand upon both Outlands, as well as Dreanor? More continents? I am sure when the planet exploded there were other parts that survived. Would be neat to see more of what that world had to offer.