Are we seriously not getting guild halls?
Guild halls would be the best thing ever!
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Blizzard has no interest in making them or player housing.
They previously said they would be in the game, then kind of acted like that never happened.
If asked now, they will always say the old thing “If we ever had a good way to do them/reason to do them we might consider them in the game blah blah.” That sometimes makes people think they are considering it again; They’ve said that for 15 years, though.
posted 2004-07-15
Katricia: "Guild Halls will most likely not be implemented before World of Warcraft is released. They are very similar to Player Housing (which also will not make the release).
Both Player Housing and Guild Halls will be implemented as soon as possible after release.
I have no information available regarding the functions of either Guild Halls or Player Housing . ~Kat"
Katricia: Player housing will not be available until after World of Warcraft has been released. Our plan is to add player housing in a future live update or expansion. Our current idea (which could change) is to extend the cities to have player housing neighborhoods. For example, in the canal area of Stormwind players can see a blue instance portal behind a large portcullis; this is the entrance to the player housing neighborhood in Stormwind.
Not sure why this person ever said they were going to be in the game. I can’t recall Blizzard ever answering that question, either. It was just very weird that a blue came to the forums and said that, when it was actually not going to happen. I always remember that, because it was before the release of Vanilla it was one of the things that solidified my decision to purchase it.
Then here is the typical thing they’ve said on the subject since then:
posted 2006-1-7
Tigole: " You’ve posted some really cool ideas on Guild Halls.
Player and guild housing is something we’ve always been interested in pursuing. While we won’t be including those features in the Burning Crusade, that doesn’t mean we’ve abandoned our hope to include housing in the game sometime in the future."
That always gives people hope.
A German fansite had an interview recently, where they said something similar again, making some people think housing was going to possibly happen.
According to an Interview by the german Fanside 4Fansites, “Housing is a big topic at Blizzard. The developers are still thinking about how to implement it so that it does not feel so clumsy.”
https://wowwiki.fandom.com/wiki/Player_housing
This site is neat, since it has the Blizzard quotes in order (on the subject.) It has them up Garrisons, basically (when players decided that was probably the only housing we’d ever get.)
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That is an impressive level of research.
I think Guild Halls would have been the way to do housing. You can’t do just individual houses out in the world. WoW doesn’t work like that. So some kind of instanced housing is necessary. I hated the garrison system in Wow. Who thought separating players into their own garrison was good for a social game?
Whereas Guild Halls is social and still allows housing. Each member can contribute. You could have all kinds of ways to earn decorations and furnishings. Actually have reasons to meet and congregate, facilitate guild activities, etc.
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Yes, i always tought that they made a massive mistake by doing solo garrisons when they could have done something in a larger magnitude for guilds where guildmates could meet up, customize, get guild specific quests/dailys, contribute for buildings/craft stations, etc.
Maybe they feel like that creates a necessity to join a guild. I don’t agree with that kind of design philosophy. You start thinking like that and we miss out on all kinds of potential cool stuff because some people might not experience it.
Well, it is an mmorpg, nothing wrong on incentivizing the social aspects. Game has plenty of stuff that you can do solo already. And guilds could really use some love right now… Last time i had some fun working to progress my guild was on cataclysm when they did the guild perks/achievments and a lot more stuff that is pretty much negligible today.
Dimensions in Rift were fun, had some WoW friends that fell in love with the idea of building your own housing etc.
You could visit and look around and give it a thumbs up if you like it. Some folks got super creative, was a fun part of the game.
Yeah as much as I would like Guild Halls I’m not sure they would fit well with the current ARPG3PSMOBA BAttle Royal that is modern WoW