G’day Moon Guard!
How are we feeling about this major feature coming to Midnight? What are your hopes? Desires? FEARS?! Regarding this long awaited feature?
Care to speculate? Let’s hear it, or check out video one the subject!
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My only fear is that I’ll be stuck making my house on land and won’t ever get a proper ship.
But player housing has been the dream for years so at this point I’d be happy with a Shrek shack
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There’s always room to iterate on Player Housing that it encompasses more than just buildings. Especially if at point we intend on venturing the other side of Azeroth, I wouldn’t say it’s entirely out of the question that they would give you the opportunity to build your own ship, even!
a man can dream! The trailer was brief but iirc from past interviews it seems like they learned from their mistakes with garrisons so it won’t be a required chore hub. I’m hoping they do like they did with SWTOR and give several options for where you can make your homestead, with stuff that lets you build it according to how your character would make it rather than just “this is the Horde house, this is the Alliance house. Enjoy living like an Orc or a human.”
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I am so hyped, it’s unreal. As long as we don’t get the lottery system from FFXIV and everyone gets to own a house, I’m sold.
Neighborhoods would be sick, too, but we’ll see! I’m ready to put my animal crossing/sims skills to the test.
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I just want a catapult in my front yard so that I might rain hellfire down upon my neighbors.
…and a shrubbery.
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I’d like a barrow den for my nelf druid!
I better have a damn indoor spot to roll my bike in!
And A skylight!
And a Cave!
And dragon guardians!!!
considering Holly worked on EQ2 for a long time, and that game has my favorite housing system in any MMO i have ever played, i am cautiously optimistic.
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I’m just curious how it being non-instanced will work phasing and other people wise? Cause if y’all are wandering through my private residence willy-nilly…we gonna have some awkward encounters reeeeeal quick.
Ill be okay with this so long as we have the option to booby trap our homes. I’d love to have a spike pit underneath my living room.
Would really spoil the mood to try and have a nice relaxing evening in the home library cuddling with a random Earthen walking through XD.
He’s just lost and lonely and in need of cuddles 
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So apparently they have an entire team that is dedicated to Player Housing as a long term feature. I am eager to see what they pull off.
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As someone who spends a lot of time looking through the game files, it’s interesting to see what’s already there and how long it’s been a thing. IIRC the earliest iterations of something called player housing was back in…I want to say Cata? Wasn’t much, just a low-rez prefab of the buildings you’d find in Tol Barad, but it was ear-marked for player housing.
More recently they added a Hearthstone tavern in DF which looks a lot like what they used in the teaser trailer for player housing. And of course there’s always the garrisons which suffered from the curse of WoD in being really, really, really unfinished and half-baked.
My guess is they’ll launch with something kinda basic and expand on it like the heritage armors. I could be wrong but I’m trying to manage my expectations.
There have been housing assets in the files since Vanilla along with a non-functioning portal in SW that everyone assumes was for a housing area.