Player housing, marriage, and children

An alternative end game that can take place in WoW.

Player housing where have lots of customisation options and quests and activities to do.

Marriage in which we can either marry another player or a select group of NPCs created purely for that purpose.

The ability to adopt children like in skyrim. There are many orphans in the game and we can do quests to take them around and entertain hem but not permanently adopt them.

No one is obligated into taking part in any of these. You may take part in player housing and marriage seperately from each other. You may take part in adopting without marriage. But player housing is required for adopting. (they need a place to live).

A lot of the core mechanics are already in the game for this. While robust and limited much of the technology and mechanics needed for player housing is found in garrisons.

The adoption system would be just an extension of children’s week.

Marriage is similiar to soul bonds and personal npc quests and reputations for the npc variant.

The building blocks and there. That’s follow them through to their inevitable conclusion.

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Might be a nice spot of world building but I doubt Blizzard would ever do anything like that.

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Only if I can marry Pandaren or Vulpera characters as a Demon Hunter.

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Sounds kinda like the Sims.

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SWTOR has dating I think and I know FFXIV has marriage.

I’d love to see some of the forum threads that come from this though.

But there are no pools to drown them in. Not that I’ve ever done something so cruel.

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The only thing I’d go for is marriage. And you each get a special heirloom style ring, where the effects only work if you’re in a party and within a certain distance of each other.

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Ugh troll bait #100278!

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this would cost us a raid tier, is the problem. and i’d rather take the raid tier.

and how many players would marry out of interest for wealth and power rather than for love?

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They can do what FFXIV does and give a cool mount and transmog!

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Your avatar reminds me of Sylvanas’ old model.

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What is happening to my World… of Warcraft

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Marriage license 2 mil and a house 5 mil sure

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The farm and garrisons were player housing.

Next I expect condos using the farm mechanics. Ironforge and Silvermoon both have locations that would work well.

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I can see it already for ingame marriages.

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What’s a children? The Horde leaders spoke of marriages but never heard of these children things :dracthyr_shrug:

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you know, when you capture an enemy’s consorts and … uh … eggs?

Sounds awful. If you want to play The Sims, then go play The Sims.

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WoW copies Pokemon with pet battles: Sleep
WoW copies dress-up games with TMOG: Coma
Wanting WoW to copy player housing: “OMG WORST IDEA EVER YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF HURR DURR!”

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The very obvious strawman is that we also said WoW becoming Pokemon was the worst idea ever. There is a reason Blizzard recently acknowledged the almost complete lack of interaction with the pet system.

Player housing is the antithesis of an MMO. “I want to sit alone in a basement playing a game where my character sits alone in a basement.” Maybe just log off and decorate your actual basement and leave the rest of us alone.

WoW doesn’t need a new core gameplay loop. It’s a game about having super powers and fighting monsters, not feng shui-ing couches.

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You do realize that in the instances of player housing, you cannot get more decorations merely sitting around your house, right?

Blizzard can put stuff out there for exploring, questing, raiding, ETC.

If people can put in the time to do TMOG runs, I’m sure they can do Decor Runs.

Also it’ll give people something to do between droughts that isn’t shrieking political hot takes to one another in Trade Chat.

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