Okay, the Neighborhood idea i am SO here for. That sounds awesome! Whoever you get as your neighbors you’re stuck with them unless you move, Im for it!
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My guess is solo players will have to do the same thing we do with solo guilds.
Come up with all the necessary “materials” to get a neighborhood going by ourselves, with our solo guilds. Or at worse, pay people to build one, and then kick everyone out to keep it for yourself.
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I definitely like the concept of neighborhoods and being able to see what other players are doing. I hope that they are able to really nail the part about building and customizing your communities together as I think that would be great for the game.
I’m liking the ideas presented though.
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So are we forced to be in a neighborhood or can we live out in the middle of the woods or on an island?
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"Furthermore, it’s not just Warbands that cross factional lines but friendships as well, so you’ll be able to live in or visit your friends’ or guildmates’ houses and their neighborhoods with minimal restrictions regarding faction.
For example, while it’s not possible for your Human character to buy a house in the Horde zone, your Troll character in the same Warband can, and then your Human can use it as if it were their own."
THANK YOU. I do not enjoy the Durotar aesthetic, I’d much prefer using the Elwynn / Duskwood one, so not being trapped on my Horde characters is amazing
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One more important note: even though it’s not an explicit pillar, wide adoption is a primary consideration for us as well. Most players should want a house in Azeroth, and if a player wants a house in Azeroth, they can have a house in Azeroth. Furthermore, Housing is being designed to scale with the player’s interest. If someone wants to spend dozens of hours a week on their house, that’s great! If they’re only interested in coming and going once or twice a month, that’s great, too!
Sounds like it won’t auto evict you like FF14.
Ws all around Blizzard.
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Wake me up when more options beyond ‘human or orc’ are added.
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Fascinating.
I like the idea. I especially like the idea that we only have to build one and each member of the war band can use it. That said, I was sort of hoping to get an apartment in SW City. Lots of closed doors there. I used to play with a friend until she got bored and quit the game altogether, We used to find an empty place to leave the toons there. Like upstairs in the various taverns. Our favorite was the one in Goldshire. My only question is will it be a rest area like the taverns etc.
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Another concern I have that I’ve seen floating around the forums lately is that houses could be locked to your character’s race. That would also be terrible. I want to make a hunter’s lodge, and it would suck to be stuck with a Suramar house because my Hunter is a Nightborne.
Exciting news, thanks for the update
- Can I have my house without neighborhoods?
- Is my house instanced too?
- Must I live next to each other, work together, and share in the rewards of being part of the neighborhoods even if I don’t won’t it?
I don’t fully understand the neighborhood part. 
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ive waited 20 years for this. thank you <3
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Here’s the HOA guidelines for the Neighborhood. We require six-foot private fences, holiday decorations that are discrete and use less than 10% of your overall energy consumption, and your Hunter pets must be Kennel trained.
Oh, and you have to use the fragrant poo bags provided by the HoA at $75 a pop, to support your neighborhood.
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Cries in Tirisfal dreams
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I’m glad we have public and private neighbourhoods and the homes aren’t in solo instances. I also wonder if those of us with banking guilds (or pending HOAs!) can obtain and populate an entire neighbourhood of our own (or just leave it mostly empty save for our personal property).
Which brings me to cost. The outline says there won’t be “high purchase costs”, but I imagine we’re probably still looking at a few thousand gold, maybe more if we get to choose the size of our home.
I’m a bit disappointed with only Human and Orc aesthetics, but it’s an understandable starting point given the project scope. We’ll likely see more neighbourhood locations introduced in the future (still gunning for Mulgore).
Maybe, but they also said they do not want too many neightborhoods, so someone is gonna miss out.
I would have preferred housing like in ESO or EQ2. Have multiple houses everywhere and in the major cities, and let people enter an instanced version when you interact with them. Right now they are talking about roleplay, but nothing screams less RP friendly like having to have a house in your faction capital because you homeland doesn’t want you in particular for some reason.
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Ok but like, some of us maybe want to live in an isolated cabin in Drustvar. Why not provide for that?
Totally fine if people want to be social with it, but just like in real life, why can’t I just build my house out in the middle of “nowhere” and have no or few neighbors? Instance it, I’m not picky and am not asking for us to be able to buy a 20 acre parcel with a house in the center and the rest as a buffer, but it feels limiting that housing necessarily has to be clusters of homes next to each other.
Take a page from ESO for some of us.
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This sounds great for the most part. However there’s two issues I feel were not addressed well:
- You guys did not mention if we are able to move our house between public and private neighborhood whenever we want, or when new areas unlock if we can move between them.
Like for instance, Tuesday I want to be my friends neighbor. But then we have a fight the next day so I want to go to a public neighborhood or my own personal neighborhood. But then we make up a few days later and want to move back. Is that possible?
- You also mention houses are warband wide. So if we make a house on an alliance toon are we forever locked out of the horde zones?
Cause if someone likes Elwynn more than Durotar, but than y’all introduce something like Suramar later, are we stuck never being able to build there because we choose alliance?
Or would we have to demolish our house on our alliance toon then build it on our horde? Cause that’s just extra steps that aren’t necessary.
Also, to be frank, it would make sense for the horde council and anduin/turalyon to allow the opposite faction citizens to set up a house in their respective zones as a show of trust between the two factions. There’s no reason to limit faction zone creation especially if you are already allowing it but in an unnecessarily complicated way of switching toons.
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Yeah I’d like to be able to make it neutral, or change the style at any time.
The gamut of decor options spans not just the cultures of Azeroth but the many expansions of World of Warcraft as well.
I’m hoping that sentence is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. The more customizations we can do, and the less we’re locked into something based on zone, character, whatever, the better.
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