Bouncing in to show my support for player housing.
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Player housing would be great if implemented some day. Will it ever? Doubt it. After not having it for so long, I feel if they wanted it, it’d already be here.
If it were to come, I envision it being being instanced in SW/Org. Like SWTOR, they could do “apartments” in other cities to expand the options. This keeps people in the cities.
Due to the engine limitations, I envision it not being fully-customizable (like placing objects). What I see is a gold sink to buy upgrade and decoration packages. Everything is preset, and you could buy the “kitchen” to change a room to that type, then buy themes to change colors and furniture type.
I feel like blizzard is moving in a really good direction as far as implementing long time player requested features sort of geared more towards the parts of the communities they’ve ignored previously
More player customization, cross faction, cross faction guilds now etc
Maybe even choosing our voices if this icy veins article holds true.
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Things like the Trading Post make me feel a tad more optimistic. I do hope to see it someday before the end of the World… of WarCraft.
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Oh yeah that too!!!
Great addition
I liked this persons idea of having trading post incentives too
I think theres a lot player housing can encourage including a whole new category of collecting / the equivalent of transmog runs but for decorations
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The best way to avoid this is to not tag PH to a player progression system. A lot of the people who keep thinking PH = garrisons fail to understand how garrisons were intentionally designed to be a progression system for WoD. If you wanted to get your legendries and be viable in raid, guess what you had to do? Garrisons. If you wanted to level professions and make money? Garrisons. If you wanted to start your daily grind for that day? Garrisons. Then repeat that with alts.
It’s like imagine doing your AP grinds but instead of going around the world doing WQ’s to get your blue bar up, you have to go to one corner of the world and sit there for 1 hour.
MoP Farming is actually a more genuine taste of PH. I don’t recall people complaining about that feature making the game anti-social. I wonder why. Cause it’s completely optional content that complements your gameplay instead of being the central focus of your gameplay. The intention was more of something fun you can do after you’re done doing other things. PH features usually exist as a means of collection, achievement hunting, buying/selling, lore expansion, and socialization. I don’t think there’s any iteration of PH in games that forces you to go there to start a daily quest for a core progression grind.
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“Raids and such could even award Souvenirs. Like you get one of the wall pics, or one of the royal beds, etc., to put in your house.”
/grin
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world PvP was one of the best features of WoW. PvP servers on classic are the most popular.
What sucks is they caved to the forum whiners who knew about pvp, who played dozens of games where PvP was a thing, and they still whined about PvP happened… It’s almost like you should’ve had your own separate server type with no PvP.
You whiners really did ruin one of the best things about this game. Now you get Diablo 2. Raid log 6 days a week and tell me how much fun you’re having. Playing glorified dressup.
I actually suggested this myself in a thread or two…I mean… JUST LOOK AT THESE PAINTINGS! This is art… and I neeeeeed it!
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Once again I’ll say, Unless they’re going to dedicate a new hired team just to do this and not use resources for other content… no. Waste of resources
PvP servers are all single faction so everyone can feel good about being tough without needing to ever PvP.
Y’all even managed to kill the one halfway balanced server you had.
There’s nothing “falsely” about trolling with just generally horrible takes/opinions.
Playerhousing PROPERLY DONE, no this doesn’t mean GARRISONS which were a cut/paste micro town that the player controlled, can be a huge positive time sink that the game needs.
Garrisons was nowhere near what playerhousing should be and people who compare the two are either speaking out of ignorance or are trolling.
ESO shows us what proper playerhousing looks like.
FFXIV shows us what proper playerhousing looks like.
Hell even NEW WORLD shows us what it looks like.
except the most populated classic servers aren’t. LOL about it all you want but turning all servers to PvE was a HUGE turnoff to a ton of people and is contributor to why this game is going to cosmetics first. You PvE-only’rs raid log 6.5/7 days a week, you get gear to idle in capitol cities and whine about doing “chores” and complain they can’t do enough to keep you occupied. My reason to raid and gear was PvP.
They did this but it ended up to be the worst idea
Saying the Garrison is player housing is like saying that adding shredded cheese to a Hot Pocket is ‘cooking’
We’re asking Blizzard for a New York Strip Steak, not a semi-warm Salisbury Steak.
Preach was literally interviewing Ion and Ion literally said the engine needed to be updated.
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Fast forward to Ion stating on video that he is aware that player housing is a long requested feature but that they haven’t done it because they would “want to do it right but it would also cost a lot of dev time (2 years or more)”. I’m paraphrasing but you get the gist. And before you ask, no I don’t remember which vid it was.
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Those…aren’t player housing by a long shot. lol
Gimmicks sure. Not Housing.
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“That farm could be expanded on. Possibly easier than the Garrison. Let us make it a bit bigger, decorate it, and all they would have to add, to make it realistic, is the ability to invite people.”
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Garrisons are forts, not homes.
The only reason why it did in WoD was because content was focused on it. It should be something on the side and optional.
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i suggest cutting mythic raiding out of the game to help tread this along 
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