This also piqued my interest, neighbourhood full of guildies/friends incoming!
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I hope different races have different styles of houses. It would look silly if an orc was living in a house that looks like it should be in Goldshire or Lakeshire or something.
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‘Oh, and you need muzzles for both heads. HOA approved ones start at 25K a piece.’
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Technically both.
ESO did not have housing at launch, but when they added it they had houses in both the cities (all major ones), and the middle of nowhere. Continuing to add more over time. You would interact with the door of the house, and go into your instanced version.
EQ2 launched with housing, and every major city has a neighborhood area with multiple doors you can interact with to go to your version of the house. They later added instanced out of the way type houses too.
Basically it boils down to I would rather a home in my racial area at least than just my faction’s main city.
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well, shoot. Now I want to join a guild. With actual people in it 
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I mean, given they are giving us garrisons with extra steps, can you blame people?
It’s instanced.
Let’s call a spade a spade and not dance around it.
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This is beyond my expectations!!! I cannot wait for this. /cheers
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A few questions:
Will players be able to “move” their house from one neighborhood to another? I would be concerned that the neighborhood I start in winds up feeling largely empty/dead after some period of time, and might wish to move to a more active neighborhood.
In your example, you list the feature as warband, allowing “Horde” characters on your warband to visit your “Alliance” home. Are we able to own more than one home? Perhaps both an “Alliance”, and “Horde” home?
What WILL the cost be for one? If you’re allowing multiple, are there increasing costs for each new one purchased?
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I would be very surprised if there aren’t plans to add ways to display our past achievements or even some of the rare items we’ve earned.
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I just want to realize my WoW career dream of being an HOA Tyrant to everyone in a very large, prosperous neighborhood (with a bunch of Hunters to torment).
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Dangit. I’m excited for this but the Durotar style look worries me. I’d give anything to be able to have a Forsaken-style house instead of an Orc-styled house <.<
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Please actually commit to getting housing areas that aren’t generic orc and human garbage out in a timely manner, unlike the (STILL UNFINISHED) heritage sets.
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I wonder if we’ll be able to buy an entire private neighborhood. It kind of sounds like it.
That is my problem. The “plans to add”. That is THE main reason most people wanted housing to begin with. Especially after the teaser back with Ion.
If I can’t put up my past stuff from the get go, what is the whole point?
Hoping we’re not limited to one house in each zone. Lots of people have lots of different characters, and it would be great to have the option for each of them to have the potential to have their own unique place to call home.
Sharing the unlock of decorations/cosmetics across warbands is a must, just like we can with transmog etc. Having the ability to share a house across the warband if you want is cool, but what my Dark Iron would call home is vastly different to what my Worgen, or Wildhammer would want in a home and hope there’s an option for each to have their own home.
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I’m not saying it doesn’t need more time to cook (it obviously does), and it’s definitely a good time to voice your concerns, but I do think that it is also important to take a step back and realize that this is a brand new feature. Expecting everything to be available right away is probably unreasonable.
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Honestly I’m not surprised but personally I’m fine with this.
As for the neighborhood, I don’t see any harm in creating a social environment, maybe give an option to those to opt out but it shouldn’t be specifically for guilds.
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if you guys dont mess this up it would be tempting to come back to retail. just dont gut it like you did garrisons and if you keep your promises you will beat ffxiv which has a housing system thats breaking due to its limitations (including lack of availability)
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All of this looks cool, but I definitely think that as an initial concept there is one major flaw: generalization in cohesion. There are only two zones that exist for housing which lean into either the forested Human aesthetic or the gritty desert Orc aesthetic which completely cuts out many of the parts of certain races and factions which are aesthetically pleasing. Additionally, a lot of the concept art fits into what a friend of mine termed as “cottagecore” and while that is definitely a perfectly fine way to design for some parts of the audience I also think it’d be nice to receive more variety in house design. Just as much as there are houses and cottages, give us keeps, towers, and fortress feeling structures.
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Having kept my expectations very low this announcement seems to almost meet them. Housing is pretty meh anyhow but it looks like they’re doing what they can with what they’ve got. Which isn’t very much.
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