Housing in WOW

[Nexumus-argent-dawn]

ANY housing would be an improvement. Instanced apartments that are easily accesible by anyone followed by housing plots in the real world would be perfect.

Well, not REAL WORLD haha you know what I mean.

[Vendreck-sargeras]

yes of course we do, will they do it is another thing entirely (i highly doubt they will)

[Rhuor-wyrmrest-accord (Rhuor)]

Housing would ensure that I stay with WoW forever, if done right. And by that I mean it isn’t immediately dropped after an expansion for some new gimmick, which is part of what’s frustrating me lately. If we had housing that exists outside of the realm of expansion releases, something that persists and is built upon each expansion with new pieces, furniture, etc., then WoW would have me until the servers shut down. Housing is what attracts me to FF14 because I want something to matter outside of raiding and dungeons.

[Coromu-bleeding-hollow]

That was the point of garrisons I thought? Wows version of it?

Least as close as it’ll get and they bungled that.
I dont think they can implement it right.

[Emanu-dalaran]

Being a current player myself, if its not out in public, that means you only found it by looking for it.

So why were you looking for/engaging in such “creepy” behavior?

[Kaurmine-area-52]

@Trollbringer-bonechewer

do we really want housing in WoW ??

I want housing in wow not because I want housing in wow but because as a collector I assume it’ll give me more things to collect

@Kaurmine-area-52

All I care about is having more stuff to collect

It doesn’t even need to be player housing, Blizz could add rock collecting and I’d do it
‘Collected all the unique rocks from Durotar’
‘Collected all the unique rocks from Kalimdor’
‘Collected all the unique rocks from Dire Maul’

[Stradkiller-alleria]

@Trollbringer-bonechewer

Considering what happens in Goldshire

Hold up…what happens in Goldshire?

[Ambius-wyrmrest-accord]

@Trollbringer-bonechewer

You want instanced housing ?

I thought ppl wanted housing in the open world so that others can visit.

I used to play Runescape, and its player housing feature was instanced. All you had to do was set your house to be publicly accessible, and anyone that knew your character’s name could enter it. The garrisons in WoW are instanced, and the only thing required to allow others to visit it is to be grouped with the ‘owner’.

It’s not exactly unlimited public access, but’s it’s workable.

[Ajora-sargeras (Ajora)]

I feel like housing would be a repeat of the high elf situation.

High elf situation:

1. players effectively get told “no” from classic, until the end of legion
2. Void elves get added. People complain that “it’s not what we wanted.”
3. Customization gets added so that void elves can look like high elves. People complain that it’s STILL wrong
4. clamoring for high elves continues

Housing

1. players effectively get told “no” from classic, until the launch of WoD
2. Housing gets added. Players complain that “it’s not what we wanted”
3. were they to revisit and implement it, I would bet that people would complain that it’s still not REAL housing
4. clamoring for housing continues

[Segovia-spinebreaker]

@Trollbringer-bonechewer

I thought ppl wanted housing in the open world so that others can visit.

I only want others to have housing, so I can call the city on every little thing they didn’t pull permits for.

[Thequixote-staghelm (Thequixote)]

I suspect the ratio of players that care about housing is close to the ratio of regular servers to role play servers.

They just really really really care.

[Zandrae-wyrmrest-accord (Zandrae)]

I totally want housing.

[Pæn-emerald-dream]

I’d much rather a guild hall, players can have their own room to customize in the hall but everybody siloed off in their own instance doesn’t sound great to me.

[Sorelai-wyrmrest-accord (Sorelai)]

@Trollbringer-bonechewer

do we really want housing in WoW ??

Do you really care what people do in their own houses? Housing could help Goldshire on some servers.

[Ashnazg-kul-tiras (Ashnazg)]

I think housing in WoW is a really bad fit. However, my stance on housing has changed: if enough people want it, and management decides to add it to the game, more power to 'em. The game is filled with unhappy players, and if housing is the thing that makes them happy, then just make 'em happy.

[Trollbringer-bonechewer]

Same reason that I sometimes go to GS… to laugh at them

[Hakyoku-wyrmrest-accord]

The people in the WoW department at Blizzard don’t have the competency or capability to successfully implement Housing. I mean, have you seen the game lately?

Sadly, them’s the breaks.

[Nickaeladin-thrall]

There’s a really good post on this here

Player Housing Can Save World of Warcraft

This will not be one of those pro-housing posts that claims, “because everyone wants it, ‘blizz’ should do it.” Ion Hazzikostas once lamented in an interview that players who use general terms to describe their personal wants like, “we all want” and “everybody wants,” were not helpful forms of feedback, so this is my personal experiential take on how I think player housing can begin to save World of Warcraft(WoW). This post will be organized into several lengthy sections outlined below. The Ph…

[Nexumus-argent-dawn]

@Hakyoku-wyrmrest-accord

The people in the WoW department at Blizzard don’t have the competency or capability to successfully implement Housing. I mean, have you seen the game lately?

Sadly, them’s the breaks.

True, it would be an absolute train wreck. You would have to Torghast for drapes and counter tops or 2200 arena rating for a couch.

They would find a way to screw it up.

[Mcbeardy-herod]

I’m not worried goldshire would leak into player housing I’m more worried about everyone sitting in their own little instance home making the world feel dead.

Housing is a niche audience and would take away development time from the things that are actually proven to bring players back like dungeons and raids. We tried housing in WOD it didn’t work