I haven’t even said anything insulting, even in the slightest. I’m not sure where the hate is, but if you can quote me that would be great. So that I don’t do it in another thread.
this one is very true.
I’m 110% ready for housing in World of Warcraft. Have been since the game was announced back in 2001.
Here some phenomenal work someone did to show what housing on WoW could look like. It’s impressive!
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good point.
I have to admit as a mog hunter one of my favorite things in ESO is finding new furniture and crap for my houses. Got like 14 of them now.
Between mount hunting, mog hunting …the new dragon mount mods…if we had houses we could farm stuff for I dont think Id ever be able to unsub, lol
Yeah I dunno, if I’m wrong I’m wrong. That’s cool w/ me. I just look at it as “we don’t have it rn and it’s been requested for a while, and they’ve said it would take x amount of work and we still don’t have it”
I don’t think it’s that crazy to have a stance like that, or it’s hateful in anyway. So sorry if I came off as hateful.
I’m definitely not against it like I said, I just look at it like well it’s still not here and it’s pretty popular, so there must be a reason for it.
right. now how many other possible reasons are there beyond
“they aren’t doing it”
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thats pretty cool.
Kills me that we are TELLING blizzard what we’d like in the game…something that’d keep us subbed…and they just have joke excuses not to do it, lmao.
but they DID have plenty of time to make new flight mechanix that I dont remember anyone actually asking for.
Go figure.
Everything you listed kind of reminds me of my real house.
Including…
yeah I actually thought about it after I typed it and it could be that they’re just working on it and don’t want to mention it which could totally be possible.
just from previous interviews and things related to housing and their answers it’s of course all assumptions, but i have no reason to not believe them when it comes to something as highly requested for the last 10 years as housing if they’re not working on it
So, in 2025 maybe?
This has been requested since 2004’s release, even during the original beta days players were anticipating a place to settle down and build a house somewhere in Eastern Kingdoms or Kalimdor.
Fast forward 20 years into the future to the year 2023 and it still has not happened yet, but I can understand the logistical nightmare. Millions of players, where do we allow homes to be placed. Parts of the world would have to be phased as homes would overlap. More phasing in what is supposed to be an open-world MMORPG is hardly the answer. Who can visit the player home. How do they get to the player home. How far outside the home does the player have property? Does the player get a hearthstone to their home or use the same hearthstone as the Inn.
Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor are way too small for such a venture.
I think if players are loud enough, then Blizzard will do it. The problem with housing and WoW is that I feel like everyone is battling against each other in terms that it’ll never happen, or WoW tried this already with garrison.
If we really want it, we need to rally together and let Blizzard know!
I think the problem is with housing out of a lot of features, is that this specific request has been around since the creation of the game. It’s always been something that the community has wanted, so I don’t think it’s crazy to think there’s a reason we don’t have it yet.
I think the more likely scenario is that Blizzard designs a completely new zone for player housing rather than letting players occupy a plot of land wherever they want. Either that, or they take pre-determined plots of land (let’s say one or two per zone) and do a garrison situation where you phase into your plot of land the closer you get to it.
“Player housing is topic that comes up a ton around the team. Tons of support for it across the community and within the team, it’s something many of us would love ourselves. Putting together any of the package of features for an expansion, it’s a mix of what thematically suits the expansion, what’s going to appeal to different types of players, but also what would be required to deliver that feature at the level that players expect and deserve, and what would we have to give up to make that happen… and player housing is a big one. It’s a big project, a big undertaking, and I would argue that if we were to do it, it would probably have to span multiple expansions – it’s a large enough feature just from the art.”
This is straight from Ion, I dunno, take it how you’d like
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IIRC as well, mind you im an old man ( or pretend to be) Blizzard was actually playing with player housing in the orignal alpha, the portal that was in SW between old and trade district was actually going to be the entrance.
The issue they had was, they could not stop the player housing instance from resetting every week so anything inside got wiped.
Thats at least the story i heard.
It can be done. You have plots scattered around different areas of each zone. If you own the plot, you see your house. If you don’t own the plot, you see someone else’s home (random phasing).
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And yet, FF14 is far more social than WOW is.
~shrug
they dont need to do it that way. ESO has set houses. We all own those houses when we buy them. No need to be building random houses in random places.
Find some buildings around the game, instance entrance at the door.
Even a dozen internal layouts would be more than enough.
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Read that it isn’t possible to implement it the way the players want with the current engine . All they can do is a garrison style thing currently