Hopefully that add the ability to decorate your public areas with achievement related decorations. Like in a guild neighborhood, if you get aotc you get a final boss portrait and CE gets you a statue.
It could be a museum of sorts.
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Iâm debating whether I should avoid the test servers so that I donât get my heart set on a plot location that I end up not getting because Iâm the 50th person to arrive.
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Chiming in that Iâm super excited for this, but nervous about one unrevealed thing, and extremely annoyed at the flip flopping on another.
Unrevealed: Is there going to be a Forsaken-themed area in the Horde neighborhood? Right now theyâve only shown 3 biomes for both, and Iâm struggling to believe that theyâd really just leave out an entire chunk of the OG Horde from the faction-specific neighborhood. Being undead under the hot Durotar sun sounds⌠miserable. And stinky.
Annoyed: whatâs with all the flip-flopping on exteriors being faction locked?? If I want a Silvermoon (Belf) tower for my void elf, itâs incredibly silly that I have to pick between the Alliance neighborhood (faction) and the Blood Elf exterior (race). Or if I want to set up with my friends in whichever neighborhood we choose, I should still be allowed to pick the exteriors that suit the character Iâm playing. This is incredibly frustrating and keys into a deeper problem with how contradictory the information reveal for this expansion has been so far.
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I would also just love the ability to post screenshots as photos in our homes. Would love to have guild AotC and Glory achievement screenshots posted around my house.
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Ooo ⌠looks like your void elf can only have Blood elf exteriors if they build their house on Orc lands.
Players keep joking about a HOA in WoW housing, well ⌠looks like they jinxed it. Blizzard will be the HOA! 
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Canât wait for my beach front home!
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The landscape around the Horde housing looks better than the Alliance housingâs.
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Yeeeeahh, think youâre gonna have to hold off on laying out the ol âwelcome matâ there, pal. First of all, youâre telling me that âmultiple biomesâ in each neighborhood consists of all the spooky forests for alliance only, and horde just gets a buncha crappy desert scenery and hot jungle? What the hell is that about? We got undead, blood elves, nightborne, and now harranir on horde, and best you can do is hot and arid desert and some bug bites? And on top of that, you have some weird contradicting information saying that alliance neighborhoods ONLY have alliance exterior architecture, and horde neighborhoods ONLY have horde exterior architecture, and that âneutral architectureâ can appear in either neighborhood types? What the HELL does that even mean? Didnât you guys literally tell us the other day that you can put an alliance house in a horde neighborhood, and the npcs there say âoh wow, donât get much night elves/humans around these parts!â Did this happen in some alternate reality or something? What the hell is going on here.
Like, damn. Dudes. Yaâll REALLY making me feel like this is gonna be the first expac I do NOT buy. All of my friends are also kinda thinking the same thing here. Do you want people to buy this? Or just tryna bank off the people who buy your crap no matter what? Less and less money every year has got to hurt your company, no? Yâall got some work to do.. 
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I mean, itâs nice that WoW is finally jumping on the bandwagon more than a decade later than everyone else, but from what theyâve shown, WoWâs housing canât even remotely compare to, say, Final Fantasy XIVâs.
Was it during Gamescom? If so the info is as reliable as ChatGPT. Silvermoon went from a small section neutral to 2/3 neutral.
Might want to elaborate on that.
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In FF you can decorate everything without any restrictions, inside and outside, including the garden etc., and you have access to all items, unlike in WoW, where itâs limited again. Plus, you can even dye things, just like transmogs with color palettes. From what weâve seen of WoW so far, it looks more like a lite version of that.
The only advantage I see in WoW is the difference that you donât need a permanent sub like in FF to keep a house. If you take a longer break from FF, you can only keep an apartment, but not a house, which will eventually be freed up automatically.
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Most unfortunate. Options for outside are limited.
Not sure what you mean by that.
I believe we will be able to change the color of furniture in WoW.
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It says there that youâd have 4 themes, two for the Alliance, two for the Horde, which you can then use in the corresponding neighborhood, without them being cross-faction. I understand it as meaning that youâd only get half of what would theoretically be possible.
And the thing with dyeing might be true, but only with a handful of colors and not with a full palette, as has been standard elsewhere for many years. A backwardness that, in WoW, has been annoying for a long time, not only with housing now, but also when it comes to armor, skin color, hair color, etc.
Its was in a interview with a dev. The same one that said that Silvermoon is 2/3 neutral if i remember correctly.
Iâm thinking this, and from experience with FFXIVâs wards, giving players free reign over what the outside of the houses look like can turn neighborhoods into a visual clusterfudge.
Additionally itâs likely also partly the reason why making new wards in that game is so difficult; they have to account for the persistent new zone to be completely different from the others, which I assume takes up space. From what I understand about WoWâs neighborhoods, they can spin up as many as they want with no issue as all the assets will be static with only minor changes in layout Iâm guessing, similar to Garrisons.
But weâll see.
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Itâs important to note that while your Horde characters can live in your Alliance house and your Alliance characters can live in your Horde house, you wonât be able to use opposite faction exteriors in that neighborhood. This means that an Alliance neighborhood will always feature Alliance architecture, and a Horde neighborhood will always feature Horde architecture.
Thatâs not very boundless self-expression of you, Blizzard.
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And I understand it, its a struggle to get a house at all due to how their neighbourhoods are designed.
I am personally very pleased that Wowâs version is different (and I believe better) than Final Fantasyâs version.
It seems that the methods of decoration in our PH are very open and adaptive. The vids showing people creating jumping games with stuff hanging in the air, creating housing items by combining furniture and decorations, the fact that the houses are larger on the inside than out, there there will be garden areas we can work on, and so forth - all this is extremely pleasing.
I think you are just looking to compare it to FF to compare, not because that gameâs housing is better.
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Those systems are old as dirt. They canât just change them and hope everything still works.
Also one thing that WoW housing has over FFXIVâs is Blizzard allowing you to change the internal layout of the house.
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Since when canât you do that in FF anymore? You can place walls etc. however you want.