Have you seen diablo 3? Blizzard hasnt been about spending money to make games good for awhile now
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Please cite your source for this assertion.
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We will probably never get housing. The devs viewed garrisons as a form of housing and those were probably the biggest failure they made in WoW’s history.
It’s more than just the housing system. The game systematically appeals to casual players. Housing is added flavor to all that (Albeit an annoyingly tedious flavor).
Even with that in mind, I suspect the numbers have changed back in WoW’s favor. FF14 by no means plays like WoW and I’m pretty sure that’s one of the core reasons why people play WoW in the first place.
Sure people want housing but if I had to guess housing isn’t a core reason anyone plays any MMO. It’s just a nice addition to keep you around.
As a person who would love some sort of housing in WoW, I do think it would be a waste of development time. Not because it wouldn’t be used mind you, I know for a fact that it would be despite what this forum likes to think.
But I know Blizzard would waste a lot of time and energy building a whole new system from scratch to be something like XIV but better, instead of just iterating on the garrison system they already have.
Like it wouldn’t be hard to create an instanced at a major city, and when you go to it seamlessly instances itself into your house, just like the garrisons did. Decorations and stuff can could be placed just like dropping the stables and the like, just you know, in the building. And then they could easily maintain it by adding more decorations through achievements or rare drops that again are placed via the “Garrison Building Drop” thing.
But again I don’t expect Blizzard would so something so simple. No I they’ll do the same thing they did with Garrisons; try to reinvent the wheel.
Arguable, Wildstar housing is what kept it afloat for so long, There was a reason people called it a housing simulator with an MMO attached to it. It was amazing.
Until the studio made the biggest mistake about using funds for said mmo for other secret projects that the publisher wasn’t aware of.
RIP Wildstar, best housing in an MMO ever.
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Which is why we’re sending you to the moon…can’t complain about potholes if the pothole is the size of the entire town!
Another thing they can do to add flavor to player housing is let players choose a “zone type” to place their house. It can be in a pvp conflict zone or a pve raid conflict zone. Let players acquire unique items based on the conflict zones they choose. You can’t join more than one conflict zone per server so choose wisely. This way everyone won’t have the same looking house with the same stuff inside. Of course they could always add more conflict zones for variety.
Psst… you forgot esports.
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I guarantee you they hate flying way more than that.
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Exactly! Just like the new professions.
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You realize that Wow’s weakest pillar, the outdoor, in-between endgame content. The sidecontent is only made stronger by us having a player hub we can develop and put resources into? It’s adding to the weak pillar of WoW. The thing that ESO and FF14 has and we don’t, because WoW beats them out in literally everything else other than graphical design and player-developer communication
The garrisons would not be a waste if they had just continued to use them, keep adding even until now, this could have been your housing, you have everything you need, bed, mining, garden, and a place to hang your trophies. But no, we just throw them away just like the class halls. Heck, you could have your class halls and garrison work together. I realize WoD is some sort of a different timeline but we were still there. I think if there were to invest in housing it should an entity that will grow with you in future expansions. We still go back to orgrimmar and sw so there is no reason you could not make housing an ongoing feature.
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I sense some sarcasm?
The op greyed out when his post doesn’t violate anything in the forums rules shows people are reporting purely because they don’t like what he said. That isn’t a down vote button people. Stop getting so triggered.
NAHHH if they had player housing, and make sure to make it unlike garrisons, I will spend probably all my afk time there and time in ques while fishing and decorating.
Would love to see this added it would give me infinite content, also would give us something else we can use our dragon isles renown on
Basically anytime I see a post like this, it boils down to this OP: “I don’t like it therefore it’s a waste of Dev time.”
So by that logic anything someone doesn’t like can be claimed to be a waste of Dev time. People who don’t like raiding can say raids are a waste of Dev time and so on.
What I did not like about garrisons was the amount of time it made you feel like you had to invest. If you did not mine daily, herb pick daily, check your professions daily, go do specific quests daily…
I never understood what all of the followers were doing, why did I have to go do all of the chores, after certain achievements are met, the followers should just do it, what were they getting “paid” for? I have to go out and kill 500 hundred mobs a day and still come home to do chores or everything is wasted whilst you just sit around the garrison all day?
Perhaps if they had understood the assignment…
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I agree buff houses