Didn’t we already try a version of player housing and it didn’t go well? Plus what is the purpose? A virtual home inside the game that you just sit in? I just don’t see a reason and rather the game not even entertainment the thought of “player housing” and work on stuff that is important.
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And again, this is not a problem that throwing money is going to fix.
At this point, I’m willing to give throwing money at it a try.
If the internal project directors are the problem, as they still seemed to find the time and resources to direct the creation of a series of borrowed power systems that they destroyed every two years - without ever threatening the loss of a raid tier for those new systems - then Blizzard’s management needs further change. And corporations with much shallower pockets than Blizzard do that kind of thing every day of the year.
just upgrade my garrison
Well, sure, it’s not your money…
Housing people would be differnt sorts, I believe from game system people. This is about art resources and rigging furniture to go here or there.
And those people still need to be talented and at least a little experienced, not just scrubs off the street who have just learned a little basic modeling.
A wow expansion without a raid would truly be the end.
Raiding is one of the few unique things this game has left.
They don’t have to start with scrubs. In fact, after the last year, I’d rather they looked outside Blizzard to find experienced managers and team leads who haven’t spent years being submissive to Blizzard’s previous management cadre of perverts and bullies.
It’s not hard to find the names of the lead systems designers in games that have made good housing systems. The name of WildStar’s lead system designer at Carbine, for example, is out on the internet. Christopher Behrens. He’s on LinkedIn. He also worked on City of Heroes, which has its customizable supergroup base system, which while relatively simple is still better than the absolute nothing that Blizzard has attempted. So, he’s got two games with housing systems under his belt. Ion has zero. If I can find him in five minutes, Blizzard can, too.
Make him an offer. Ask him who he’d like to work with on the team who isn’t already at Blizzard and then make them offers, too. Find people within the company who are excited about working on such a system, and add them to the team. Then fill in the gaps with new blood. Behrens isn’t interested? Go find the lead systems designers for SWG or SWTOR or ESO or any game which has actually succeeded where Blizzard hasn’t even tried, and try to recruit them. The Blizzard name still has cachet.
these arguments remind me of stephen colbert’s “I’ll pay $50 for a gallon of gas, because i drive a tesla” statement.
Hopefully he is hinting that they are working on housing now, but won’t be available until the expansion after Dragonflight.
I suspect it comes down to engine limitations
Pretty much my view on this as well now.