Okay. For my own personal “best housing possible” scenario would be Wildstar-style instanced housing but with lot instances in almost every zone. Each instance reflecting the environment of the zone that players can build their own house on (prebuilt homes or custom made from building blocks of different styles and racial themes) then link with other players for shared neighborhoods and communities. Linking optional. Not everyone wants neighbors!
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I absolutely love the Farm. Ive run it with two or three characters simultaneously, lol.
Never get tired of it. love that its light…like player housing should be…doesnt consume everything like the garrison did.
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It’d be neat if you could see your alts wandering around your house and maybe trade with them, acting as a shortcut for mailing stuff between characters.
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Remove the utility that Garrisons had (if they do implement a “farm” aspect, make it so those only effect cosmetic items, not something that would increase your player performance).
Future proof it: One of the things that made Garrisons a failure is that they abandoned it once Legion was released. Release new furniture items (or furniture crafting recipes) in subsequent patches. Make sure that the housing system doesn’t break in future expansions, make it so that it receives needed updates in future expansions. DON’T ABANDON IT ONCE THE EXPANSION THAT INTRODUCED IT BECOMES LEGACY CONTENT!
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I do hope if they do housing they put in some sort of auto expanding feature. It’d be nice to have neighborhoods like with FF14, but not have the limitations.
Would be cool also if say a popular plot decays and everyone with a house can bid to move to it. FF14 just let’s anyone with a house who wants to move in, do it immediately. (Well… it used to. Literally changed a day or two ago.)
I will say if Blizzard is going all out, they’ll do it better than FF in every way. Maybe not the house building aspect, but at least the accessibility option which is what ultimately plagues FF at the moment.
I am totally freakin stoked to see Player Housing. That means more profession income 
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The only player housing I want is a place shared with my Alts and I can see them walk around or parked at the last place I logged them off. So it has to be big.
Sure people can visit if they want.
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If player housing happens then I am happy for those who want it. I am not a fan nor will really use it but I get this is a new norm for mmos and would be good to have in the game.
All I care about though is that player housing will have 0 part in having to progress in the story/leveling and it is purely an optional thing. I also hope you don’t have to have a house to gain extra dps/hps/tank abilities/buffs.
I just hope it is separate and its own thing where professions can make the stuff etc. and certain mobs/bosses etc. will drop housing items etc.
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It would be nice if you could sell your house as well.
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I don’t…
Horde will have an instance portal in Orgrimmar to enter their house. The alliance portal will be in Stormwind. Or at the most, there will be small phased patches of land in these cities like the player farm in Valley of Four Winds.
Unlocking and furnishing your house will be tied to dungeon and raids somehow. Want a specific chair? Run XX dungeon and hope it drops from the third boss.
Everything ffxiv does with housing except each account gets 2 for free: 1 for each faction. It’s accountwide. Meaning, your alts get immediate access to it or just shared access at some point.
Guilds get 1 guild hall. Guilds are required to register a phone number or something. Id rather not see authentications and such but they have to keep people from overloading the servers somehow.
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I would like to be able to make my own home in the city of my choice and if it’s not like in our old Azeroth zones, maybe just be able to customize it with different race skins. Because if I’m a dwarf that likes technology maybe a gnomish type looking home would fit my character better! Or maybe your an Orc but you enjoy blood elf aesthetic for your home you can do that.
It comes down to being able to customize it.
You should be able to select:
- What zone art and assets
- General architecture
- Colors both main and trim
- If it has gardens or trees.
- Placements, color etc of all of the inside assets.
- If you can have a summoning circle in the basement.
- If lighting is handled by lantern, candle or magic.
- Be able to display guild heraldry as well as trophies.
Basically be a home not just a government garrison to house soldiers for an invasion.
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Man, I think the largest thing I want for housing is that display of achievements. I actually liked working towards trophies in WoD, and it’d be nice to customize that further.
There are so many ideas if Blizzard were willing to try and do it right.
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Do it like ESO.
There’s property around the world that’s instanced that anyone can buy.
Also do it like ESO.
No mailboxes and Auction Houses inside your house. You can craft in privacy but if you want to shop you gotta get out in the world.
Even more like ESO.
Some ESO housing areas are just blank canvas instances with no “house” yet. This allows incredible design where people ignore creating houses all together and instead make jumping puzzles or mazes with basically limitless discretion. Some of the things players have created in their personal housing instance rival the best world exploration in gaming. I don’t think Blizzard should aim for that on the first pass but the devs have to have seen it to understand what could be done.
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Whatever it is, I don’t think it will be purely cosmetic, and it will also require time, maybe factions, and lots of gold to fully unlock features.
I would like to see a new profession, Carpenter, added to craft housing items.
So I see utility, like garrisons, but hopefully nothing too robust so that major city hubs become ghost towns. I’ve played games where players and their guilds moved to their houses, leaving the cities empty. It’s not a good look.
That would be cool, but also a royal pain in the butt. Resource gated by random people.
It would also require either sub-professions or a fully fleshed out profession.
player housing is a waste of resources…
(look at ESO, while it makes them money, it does not enhance the experience of the game in anyway and most players ignore it all together, just allows gullible players to swipe their credit card to pay them more money for a fake house no one is ever going to see or use)
lets not forget it’s probably only going to be human and orc themed
(garrison was suppose ot have much mroe customization and we saw how that went)
a guild/community hall I see as ok, but still not really a fan of as it will more then likely only be controlled by a few people anyways and I still don’t see it being used much at all.
it’s better to work on content that actually improves the gameplay experience / story.
It’s been a loooong time since I played Runescape, but that game’s access to a player’s home was in the form of multiple portals (3? 4? I can’t remember), each located near a major city. I’m thinking either that, or yet another (home) hearthstone would be the most likely means provided for PH access.
I’m personally hoping for a choice in setting for the PH, even if it’s only from a pre-determined selection. For example, suburban (Stormwind/Orgrimmar), forest, plains, mountains, desert, or even a farm…but I doubt Blizzard would put that much development into it. In fact, my concern is that they will only provide apartment-like housing, with only the interior being customizable.
I agree, but it’s nice to dream.
My FF14 free company routinely visits bars/clubs/casinos in the housing area. The stuff is fairly popular, sometimes the houses max out. That’s not to say a large majority of players are investing time into it, but it gets used for sure.
I’d love to see WoW reach the same point, but my gut tells me it won’t. Blizzard will put in genuine player housing and it’ll become a graveyard, most likely from trolling.
Blizzard would need to solve another key problem first. Namely gear that is casual and fun. More vanity items.