Let's Talk About Player Housing

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Its been, and is, one of the most requested features to be added into the game, and not recently, since vanilla wow, this has been a request from the player base. Its is a highly popular aspect of many online games, and the fact wow does not have it, is still amazing to me.

Its well past needed, and it is not going to be a thing that would be all you would get for an exp. Raids would still happen, dungeons would still be there, new zones and content. This would be like what battle fronts were to BfA, or what Thorgast was to SL (Not in the quality of them but the concept) they would be expansion features added in, it would not be the meat and potatos of an exp, it would be the sides that come with it.

Its very much needed because not only do players want it, it would provide wow with very much needed evergreen content. Housing would then make relavent past dungones that could drop crafting recipes to make various items for a home.

It would make every single past exp resources once again valid and usable, iron, copper, gold, adamantium, ghost iron, Titan steel, ect ect, all could be once more made relevant to the entire wow community as a whole.

It would also provide every single profession a wide array of things to make for players who want to do the player housing system. You can now go out mine, and then build some sort of thing that a player wants, so now you are not forced to just make some sword or some little one item that people use.

It sounds like you are looking at this only though the lenses of “Well this would take a lot of resources for someone just to play house.” and not the lens of “This is a system that could be utilized by everyone in the game to give them something to do and make old content relevant.”

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I mean, there’s an interview and they said that it would take an unbelievable amount of work. A lot of overhauling.

When these threads pop up everyweek, someone should just link the interview.

yes ff has it, but wow and ff do not run on the same spaghetti engine

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Blizzard already doesn’t direct their attention at things not working. Acting like player housing will be a catalyst for that is a bit exaggerated.

Proof?

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Wdym proof.

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Garrisons were not optional. You could “ignore” them but WoD was basically tied to the garrison, so you were better off unsubscribing from the game if you didn’t do it.

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Yeah, I’m not sure why people say this. They def were not optional.

People legit just spent all their time in the garrison, lets be real. We all played wod.

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What proof do you have that Blizzard adding player housing won’t work out well?

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Did blizzard ever even say they were optional?
I honestly dont recall if they did.

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I dunno, but they pretty much were psuedo optional. like u had to pretty much upkeep them because of gear etc.

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in terms of potential power gains available from them, they were not “optional” from a gaming point of view.

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It’s not even that. If you didn’t do garrisons, you didn’t play the game because there was virtually nothing else to do. Garrisons weren’t optional by the simple fact that content didn’t exist in WoD.

Saying garrisons were optional in WoD is like saying it’s optional to jump in Mario.

Like… yeah, it’s optional, but you probably won’t get very far by not doing it.

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yea. like i have no problem with housing in wow, i just think about the garrison and im like thinking about how nobody actually left their garrison, and im like well why do we need housing

regardless, it would take a lot of work according to blizz, and maybe they just don’t want to devote that much to do it.

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So lets be honest with ourselves here, who cares if no one leaves the garrisons, or their homes.

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I quite enjoy seeing people in Valkdrakken. Or around stormwind.

Like I said I’m not against it per say, but blizz did say it would take a lot of work and I have no reason to believe them otherwise, or else it would already be in the game with how much it has been requested.

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this is called correlation, not causation.

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Sure, it takes an hour to place that bedside table on the floor and put that flower vase on the table.

Seriously?

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Garrisons were not optional in WoD if you did any sort of crafting. There were simply too many soul bound materials that were only obtainable via the garrison system.

So, ideally, housing should not provide functionality / produce anything. Then it would become mandatory for some people and that will cause it to be opposed as being “Garrison v2.0”.

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I still remember flying into it from the south and seeing like 50 people clustered at the invisible wall.

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yea the game felt empty, more so than it already was in wod lmao

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I hear this one all the time, but here is my counter point to that.
How many times you walk around a city and think “Boy this sure is neat seing all these people.” Vs “I with this guy on the mamoth would get off the mail box,” or “Stop begging me for gold”

Like did you really feel any more invested in SL seeing oribos packed while you do looser laps?

Like if people wanna be social in wow, go forth and be social in wow.
But be honest, do you really care if you walk into the AH and see a bunch of people all standing atop each other searching the AH? Does that really do anything for anyone?