Hmm.
So I shall have neighbors. Neighbors who shall have to see whatever it is I decorate the exterior of my orc mudhut house with.
I do hope I may put up signs.
It could prove to be very, very useful.
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I put housing in the cities/surrounding areas with race theme customization as a bare minimum requirement and Blizzard couldnāt even do that.
It just feels like garrisons 2.0.
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Trespassers will be shot. Survivors will be shot again would be a funny sign to have 
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I was more thinking āpool party inside, lots of mounts and transmog for sale, come dressed for the partyā.
So then I might lure in unarmored adventurers with sacks of gold so I can ambush and banditize them.
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I donāt know whether this stated intent to funnel the gameās social aspect into sharded housing districts saps or bolsters my hope for Neo Silvermoon. Thereās a higher chance it remains a blood elf city if Alliance players arenāt expected to spend all their time there, but thereās an equal chance it goes Dalaranās way. Or drowns in Void goop.
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Yeah, Iād have better odds of getting a Forsaken House by playing the lottery and buying and decorating a real-life house with spooky designs.
This is just single-building Garrisons with your toys/pets/ and transmog items decorating the walls.
Iāll buy one for the novelty of it, but only because they said they wonāt charge a mortgage and you canāt lose it. But otherwise it has very little appeal for me.
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I wonder how much theyāll cost and if the average casual like me will even be able to buy one
I hadnāt thought of that
Iām sure the entry price will be essentially nothing. The gouging will be for the big, impressive lawn decorations.
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Gunna copy and paste what I posted in the General Forums about the new house info:
To start with, I just pray they prioritize new themed neighborhoods sooner rather than later. Iām super pumped for the system but as a dwarf player - not too excited to be living in a human forest. Likewise I canāt imagine many blood elves are too jazzed about a (mostly) Orcish Desert
I feel like the people that are all for keeping housing to just Elwynn/Durotar arenāt really housing types or donāt understand the appeal of housing
It isnāt just having a spot thatās your own that you can decorate. Thatās just garrisons with extra steps.
Itās having a place that feel personal to you and your character. A hardcore dwarf fan will want a stone dwarven house underground in a mountain, a tauren fan might want a Wigwam or tent on a bluff overlooking vast plains. I can imagine a lot of night Elf players would kill for a home in an area evocative of Teldrassil or Ashenvaleās environment.
It isnāt just about having a spot to decorate, but the aesthetic of the house itself and the aesthetic of the world and biome around it and itās location are just as important.
For example me personally: No matter how much I decorate it, my Dwarf will never feel at home in the Elwynn zone, Iāll always feel like an imposter, a dwarf squatting in a human lands. Especially for RPers who may be like: āWell my Night elf lives in Belāameth, it feels weird to call a random house in humanville my homeā
Now I canāt speak for everyone but I think I can confidently speak for a lot of fans of housing in other MMOs, especially roleplayers, when I say Iād rather there werenāt neighborhoods at all. ESOās housing would work a lot better - a number of unique bespoke individual house plots scattered about the world in various racial areas and biomes. Iād rather have 50 houses all scattered about the world over 50 homes all in Elwynn forest squished in next to each other.
I think itās a misstep trying to make housing this forced social thing by making everyone who wants a house, forced to live next to others in Elwynn forest. Thatās not what most housing fans want. They want a unique private area that feels unique for that character. Especially for roleplayers, who this system targets the most, a lot of them probably wonāt ever use the system as is as most people who roleplay, wouldnāt make sense for their characters to live in Elwynn/Durotar.
As a dwarf main, I donāt ever feel like this will āfeelā like home for that character.
And it sucks knowing Iāll have to wait years for a more fitting neighborhood for him, assuming they ever make one that does.Now all that said, Iām willing to be patient and see how things develop, but these are all just my initial thoughts and feeling in a big ramble as a casual player, RPer and housing aficionado.
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Also loving the language use regarding the description of themes.
āRuggedā¦ā
āFolk.ā
āGeneric.ā
āOpulent.ā
Here, let me put on my glasses, andā¦
āOrc.ā
āHuman.ā
āHuman.ā
āRich Human.ā
Well thereās your racial decor right there. How generous of Blizzard.
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Twelve days ago, I accurately predicted todayās problem.
My reputation as the Official Story Forums 1000% Accurate Predicting Predictor remains intact.
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I have never been one for the mud hut aestheticā¦.
Looks like until we get better options, my Horde Characters are going to be spending a lot of their time in the actual House of my Alliance Charactersā¦.
There goes the neighborhood.
I am a pretty wary the housing system will launch with a extremely human and orcs theme which will make me not too happy. I do not want a human farmhouse 
It is going to be really silly for them to launch a new huge revamp of silvermoon and not have housing to mirror that at the very least.
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Itās a recurring problem with Blizzard. They think if they give us a bunch of minor customization options that itās good while neglecting major customization options. They had the same problem with garrisons and dracthyr visages.
If you donāt like the base then no amount of doodads or jewelry is going to fix it.
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Iām RPing my human as a half elf/troll(Itās super fun, but thatās besides the point)
I wouldnāt mind a Human house so much if we can decorate with any decorations we want, like being able to use troll and elven stuff would be amazing
I hope we arenāt locked to faction specific decorations because that would honestly be kinda terrible for a lot of players. Especially since we can visit our homes on the opposite faction
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You see the problem with Orcs is Blizzard refuses to let them evolve over time. They will always be mudhut savages for aesthetic purposes alone. Ignoring the rest of Azeroth went with time. Even frkn Tauren hunt with guns while Orcs still use bows. Same reason why the Orc heritage quest was bad. They doubled down on ALL Orcs making Durotar there home ignoring that the place is still devoid of resources and Thrall being a idiot when hee looked for a place to stay. That is why spikes, skulls, soup and steel rugged roofs is all the greenlings will ever get from the Dev team.
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Youāll take your human farmhouse placed in a pumpkin patch and like it!
Flashback to the night elf heritage quest
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Only if the pumpkins explode and become small cannibal undead pumpkins.
Itās the only acceptable pumpkin patch 
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I try very hard not to remember the Dark Times of farming the pumpkin patch for our stormwindian overlords.
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The orc heritage was brilliant and they didnt double down on making Durotar the orc home. We had Jorin Deadeye saying that the future of the Bleeding Hollow was on Azeroth. Its not certain, where they will set up shop though.
With how Hammerfall became the Au Magāhar capital, per Heartlands, I wonder if Gromāgol Base Camp would become the Bleeding Hollow capital.
Furthermore we saw that the forest of Thunder Ridge was going to be restored, helping the resource issue in Durotar.