Expecting Minecraft-level customization from WoW housing is a little much, especially considering that most other MMO housing systems have similar limitations.
FFXIV, ESO, and LOTRO come to mind as examples of housing systems where your interior is instanced and separate from the exterior. SWTOR housing doesn’t have any exterior at all and is purely focused on interior customization.
I think it would be wonderful if MMOs could have customizable housing on the level of Minecraft, but most of them are likely not built to support that kind of functionality right now.
Not exactly. The WoW housing asset placement system has, strictly speaking, more degrees of freedom, because not only is translation available, but so is rotation, and the translation we do get is not divided into integers. In minecraft it’s a 1 meter cubed region where you can place blocks, in WoW you can move the objects with fine placement. In my original post I said this is good, but I don’t consider presets with instanced interiors to be housing, because separated interiors and exteriors that are just presets, even with high levels of freedom over asset placement, does not qualify as a house. It’s not a single unit.
It seems some people have fundamentally misinterpreted or misremembered what was said because they’re now upset I don’t like instances and windows that don’t work. Or something. I’m having difficulty parsing what they mean because they’re not looking at their examples and making statements that are objectively incorrect.
tbh since dungeons, class mechanics and raids are getting butchered I think they should bundle this up with classic, SoD and whatever other cursed game modes they are giving to casuals and give me a lobby for raiding and dungeons and get rid of the monthly sub. Make the classic people who want dumbed down classes, housing, free mage tower, etc. pay for the product separately.
Uninstanced housing would be freaking impossible to do with a neighborhood system, in fact if you wanted to do an unintanced style housing you would need to have your individual house be its own neighborhood because good luck trying to walk into fully unistanced neighborhoods when every single person has over 10,000 items placed.
Your PC is going to be smoking my brother.
Housing a great, if you are creative you can get around almost any issues, the fact that outside of the home you can pretty much free build and as long as you are not blocking the front door you can get into your home, its crazy. You should see some of the things people are building.
I agree, I tried it and while I think the interior design features are incredible, the outside of the house just looks boring. You can add a ton of rooms and extensions, making the house bigger, but when you step outside, it’s the same small house, despite having just added 10 new rooms and hallways. Plus no, you can’t see outside, you can’t see inside.
Another thing I found annoying, is that as I was running around, you get warnings that you are “trespassing” and will be removed from the property- kind of like if you’re flying and you end up in a non-flight zone (I experience this all the time flying over places like Wintergrasp), and it says it will dismount you.
The same happens when flying over somebody’s property too. You can’t even fly over their property without a threat to get dismounted. That I think needs to be fixed.
I love to fly around and explore new places in the game, and I especially like exploring the new neighborhoods. But I can’t veer off the main road without getting a warning that I’m on somebody else’s property. This makes it difficult to explore because then you can only look at certain locations from a distance. You can’t take shortcuts to get from one place to another because you get the trespass warning… it’s just ridiculous. Let people explore. Isn’t that what so much of WoW is about?
I agree, this feature needs a lot more work in the coming months if they want a successful launch.
Just look at actual garrisons. Every Garrison was in Shadowmoon Valley or Frostfire Ridge. Doesn’t mean every time a new player made a Garrison it fell from the sky on the previous one.
If you actually expected something like minecraft then you are not a technically inclined person. There is no way wow could handle 50 houses with thousands of furniture items in them EACH and the potential for thousands of players in one neighborhood if someone throws a house party.
Sounds like an absolute nightmare. Minecraft is not an MMO and the housing is nowhere near as complicated as wow’s housing. They’re literally lego blocks.
Agree to disagree then. I do not think the casuals outnumber people who do end game content. In fact this is all casual bait to get younger, more generous with their credit card type players to join wow. It isn’t going to go the way they think it’s going to go.
I don’t care about the Housing because the Housing does nothing for me. See previous posts as to why, short version… forced neighborhoods, more trying to force group content, more crafting stuff to chase, no QoL utility functions.
…Erm what? There are thousands of servers, some with more than ten thousand online at any time. Minecraft is absolutely an MMO in every sense of the word.
Please do basic research if you don’t know what the subject is before replying.
That’s not an issue, it’s a necessity. If the houses weren’t phased/instanced, the zone would basically get unplayable because of all the placeable items in this one phase that have to be loaded dynamically. Comparing this to something like Minecraft is a bit absurd.
They’re right, Minecraft is not an MMO. Have you ever played it or heard of it?
Wrong!! So so so wrong. I got on there, did not want to leave, compared to ff online, have to say more freedom on here than there can’t fly in neighborhood, I played it for a month and back here, a vet, and I say this is needed. It’s a steppingstone. They will be adding more things later, you just don’t give all at first, . Most homes are instanced also ESO has the same thing you instance into home its in a different realm. Go try these games, see for yourself. I think Blizz did right here.
