And Blizzard should implement a way to purchase from the catalog or other shortcut once you purchase or earn your first copy, I agree. Many people agree on that point.
I’m guessing you think that suggestion is unacceptable, though, and the “creative process” talk is just a bad faith argument.
I get the feeling that you would be more satisfied playing a sandbox housing game than you would WoW housing. After all, housing is completely optional and you still have the rest of WoW to play. But let me guess, you got bored of other sandbox housing games, right?
This would be an acceptable compromise, but I still feel the better solution is Unlimited unlock use.
Please don’t infer my responses or actions, as that in itself is bad faith arguing. You’re arguing against things that don’t exist to help your point, when in reality its weakening your credibility.
All of the technical side items can potentially be fixed, thru work and coding.
Already exists. As I generate the item into the physical space, it is now taking up the “data item” slot. It’ll generate the database slot upon use, instead of currently simply moving the database item from “Database 1” to “Database 2, item 12, sublocation 25” - While the second one is obviously easier to code.
You could still hit this type of system by making me pre-generate the item, then use it. As in, within the Catalog, I’d click that I wanted 4 chairs, and those 4 chairs would appear within the houses true use inventory. That I could add to as needed. And to save space, upon potentially logging off the game that database space can be cleared, as the items are still unlocked in your catalog, you’d just need to readd them to your houses inventory upon login to place around the house.
I don’t know why someone would try for a duplication hack in an unlimited use situation, but again something that thru proper coding can be fixed or averted.
This type of scenario is something that can and most likely will occur in the current rendition. As players will try their hardest to break the system to give them more items for free. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if it does occur within the next week (If the game is stable enough).
Covered by 1.
We have yet to see if it will avert serious amounts of issues. When the Garrisons went live the game was unplayable on live servers for a week. While yes, hopefully they have coded it in a way to avert this, its not guaranteed. Heck even the Beta and PTR servers initially could barely handle the amount of traffic going to the housing system.
That economy would still exist, even in a “Once and done” system. As there would potentially always be a player looking for that thing. It just wouldn’t be as lucrative, as I’d only need to, as an example, buy the Blue Dye once, instead of potentially 100 times.
Technical limitations exist, but can be overcome. Or not.
Maybe some one can answer this for me. My guild is primarily Horde. Im a Alliance player. It’s pretty much been said that the guild will pick the Horde neighborhood, which is fine with me. But I still want my Alliance house. I do know that we can have one Horde, one Alliance house. My main question is, without going to a public neighborhood, how will I be able to purchase my Alliance house? Would i have to create a charter neighborhood? Or will i have access to the Alliance neighborhood, even if my guild chooses Horde? Alot of us have been “claiming plots” over the past couple weeks, and we all chose one Horde, one Alliance. Haven’t really found any information about this.
I think the resource amounts are quite high for the goods created BUT this is a pretty okay thing if you think about housing as an evergreen feature. Yes, grind, but it’s there to give you something to do. I’m not usually a fan but I can deal with this.
Social aspect is what really? You don’t have to participate. You can just eek by doing solo stuff. You’ll eventually upgrade things, I’m sure. You just won’t be first. This feels like a non-issue.
I agree with the monetization currency being the stupidest thing and I’ll just not participate in it.
If you have any interest in housing you should just go do it and be open to enjoying it. The housing in WoW blows away any other housing system I’ve used in an MMO.
See, I don’t care about it being an “evergreen feature”.
Levels and gear are tied to actual gameplay… you do the quests and delves and so on, the character gets stuff from that, as loot and experience… that’s a valid loop. It’s tolerable for transmog hunts because transmogs are at least the cosmetic side of gear. The equivalent for housing would be unlocking more house stuff by doing things with the house. Instead, it’s set up to get more house stuff from doing a bunch of things unrelated to housing.
“You don’t have to participate” is technically true, but I’ve seen how people are about group stuff, and if there’s anything that unlocks for the neighborhood based on what everyone in it does, there’s going to be pressure from some players on other players to participate… and while they have no power to force the issue, it’s going to be annoying every damn time.
It’s like Blizz took everything I play games to get away from, and made it core to Housing.
The eternal experience and risk of watching any video online… some creators don’t know or deliberately don’t care about how to set up normal human volume levels.
