FFXIV housing was too real for me. Right down to manufactured scarcity and monthly maintenance costs, and HOAs 
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My expectation? I’ll get the house, go in once and never go in it again… because it serves no purpose for me, if I wanna play house, I’ll just download the sims and I don’t erp… 
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Your undead. Your neighborhood is going to be 6 feet under.
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If it’s anything like FFXIV, all neighborhoods are effectively the same if you don’t know anyone. No one will bother you. At most you get a few curious onlookers wondering what you are building in your yard.
Won’t people who have friends do the same thing?
I’m a complete solo player and I have a house currently set up in EQ. I honestly just love to travel there every so often to admire what I built and pretend my character is relaxing. I imagine it will be basically the same with WoW.
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I have a house set up for swtor to use as a hub. Had plenty of credits to waste on it. No one seemed to care about visiting each others houses though.
I didn’t bother with FFXIV as no one cared to visit and it wasn’t worth the time or gil to do it.
I will probably treat the wow house the same. Set it up if I have the gold/items to do it and it gives me a place to auction/vendor etc. Otherwise it will be left unused except for the occasional moment I feel like “playing house”.
Few will visit the inside but they can still see the outside when they run past it.
WoW will have neighbourhoods and work the same way.
Bikies underground hideouts
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As a solo player I have very little intrest in player housing. I’m not against it at all I know tons of players requested this through the years. This new feature doesn’t interfere with what I personally do it’s all good. I might check it out to see what’s it’s all about. But overall it’s not my thing.
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Honestly, it would be cool if forsaken had housing underground. Think of the possibilities.
The only time I ever got into housing was in SWG and that was because we were able to put machinery down to farm resources. That gave me a reason to come back and visit. There was also vendors you could place which allowed people to come in and shop, but that only worked because the best gear and weapons in the game were crafted. Also, your vendor would be shown on the galaxy wide AH and it required a visit to your home vendor to get the item. I doubt WOW will redesign the game to work like that but it would be nice. That’s the only way I see this type of system working long term. There has to be a reason to come back and visit or reasons for others to stop by. Otherwise its just something people will create and then forget about like we see in so many MMO housing systems.
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I’m interested in the housing topics in these forums. Shaping my expectations is part of the anticipation.
My first thought is to not have a Hunter’s Lodge like we see in WoWs examples with the bear rug (with head) and the bloody trophy heads on the walls.
I’ll follow the PTR so that we can see examples.
And, to answer, I am not an RP guy. I don’t think I’ll be hosting parties with booze and fireworks in my housing. At this moment, I can’t imagine showing off my stuff unless it is for advice and there is always plent of that. I know guys who get together to talk about tmog choices and post alternative looks, and they spend hours at it.
I’ll play with it. You, know, game and all. I’ll use it more like an office than a “base” (srsly?). My Garrison? When they make a new Idaho Zone and have you put it in Skinhead Gulch for Cult Compound RP I’ll be more interested, but it does some handy QoL stuff. I think right there is the key to the why bother/staying power lock. We all ask for tweaks, features, custom options etc. Ok, but at what slice of the design resource pie? Yet if you conceptually shift focus and look at why you want a brick and mortar house, you get glimpses. Can you imagine your life 30 years ago? “Virtual” was a by-word for ridiculous - who eats virtual food? Money, work? Well, good chance that’s remote and you aren’t taking turnips. Commute? Car? A place to live, well physically of course, but hey it’s getting there: Food/safety,/rest (inns, markets, sanctuaries currently), sense of familiarity - a mess but yours, identity (deco, functionality), social (guilds, standing friends so far) storage/stuff.
That category generally attracts add-ons, and the current conceptual move to reduce combat mods through design and UI changes really isn’t a concern for QoL mods. So sure, throw some outlandish, garnish stuff in there, make it challenge to get nuts, that’s WoW’s wheelhouse - but keep a weather eye on QoL functions (alts, maps, references, like a note board and a reference keeper, ‘photo albums’, some settings items perhaps better contextualized off the main menu). As always, it will be interesting, and I have a feeling Blizzard might have a better mousetrap.
You work virtually, you spend your free time in a virtual theme park, now with its own villas. In reality, you three have choices, not just the Red Pill and the Blue Pill, let’s not forget our old friend the Prisoner and the Village - Be Seeing You!
I’m probably just going to ignore it for the most part. It will be like every other mmo where I decorate it and never visit it again. It’s going to suck something pretty fierce if they actually tie content to it.
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I just want to know if we’re going to have a few exteriors/interiors to choose from, like Dwarven, Human, Night Elf, and so forth, as far as aesthetics.
I’m more concerned with them never adding more neighborhoods and dwarves and night elves being forced to live in SW suburbs forever.
Just seems lazy. It cannot be that hard to add more of them.
I genuinely cannot imagine them putting as much effort and resources into it as they are and then just giving us the option to not engage with it without a sacrifice of some sort.
They need housing to be a success possibly more than they’ve needed any system to be a success. They aren’t going to just lay that in our hands with the way they bait us into everything else.
I am absolutely waiting for the “Oh, by the way…” to drop when it comes to getting us to engage with housing.
And when it happens everyone that preached “It will be entirely optional” will change their tune to “Suck it up and deal with it.”
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Well, depending on how hard they push it i guess my time will be done. Im sure many wont be disappointed. Its just not for me.
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Personally spent about two years working on one of my ESO houses, but then again… that game lets you custom build the structure.
I’m looking forward to seeing what WoW housing has to offer. Resubbed just to reacquaint myself with WoW since I hadn’t played in a long time.
Housing is making a lot of players come back. It’s not for everyone, but it sure has a lot of hype in other MMO’s chats.
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I expect I’ll fool around with it at least a little. I may or may not go any farther with it.
Things that I don’t enjoy, I don’t do.