FF14’s housing system is very good as well. I spent way more time and gil tooling around with my house than I will ever admit lol.
My only concern with Blizz trying to copy them is that FF14’s housing system leans pretty hard on the neighborhood aspect. I’m guessing WoW’s will be more of a “private island” or perhaps just an apartment. We’ll have to see how it goes.
While I get what you want, I’m going to doubt that they’ll give us weather effects. How long did it take them to “make it rain” again in the game? I do agree with Sendryn however in that I think it is going to be akin to SWTOR’s where it will be instanced, with hooks. They’re not going to completely recreate a lot of their art assets so my guess is that we’ll get stuff that they’ve already created but be able to place it ourselves.
Yeah, definitely a concern of mine as well. I think it would be alleviated if there were a way to visit other players’ houses as per some kind of “browsing” function, though. Let players “compete” to make the coolest or most interesting houses.
I could totally see a Housing community popping up overnight if you could post your house somewhere and other players could easily visit it.
But there are just too many variables, it will all be dependent on what Blizzard has in mind.
Both Palia and SWToR have public listings where folks can post their plots for other people to visit.
Something like that would be good.
If for whatever reason someone wants to keep their plot private, there is that option too.
If the housing instance is a full lot rather than just an interior instance of a building they could certainly add environmental effects if the devs wanted. But with Blizzard, I am keeping my expectations at minimum. I want them to be exceeded but it’s too early to get hyped.
I mean we “could” get Wildstar style housing because look at garrisons (yes I know it wasn’t housing, but it still had the “building placement” thing kind of like Wildstar)… That said I don’t think that is what we’ll get.
Yeah. I guess that’s the thing. We could get any number of housing systems if Blizzard took the time and effort to do it right. There’s several types of housing Blizz could really draw some great inspiration from. Wildstar is just one of the best. It did have hooks for optional prefab objects like buildings, crafting stations, and minigames, but it also allowed for free placement of assets (huge difference between Wildstar and Garrisons) to build your own structures. Some of best looking lots incorporated both prebuilt and custom made designs.
Would be great, but I wouldn’t bet on it. ESO is great.