i think it’s funny, blizz tried to give us player housing with garrisons, and players flat out rejected it before giving it a chance and was left unfinished, now suddenly players wants player housing, i for one don’t think players deserve player housing in 2024 because of the hissy fit they threw
I think starting off we’re going to have basic Alliance and Horde, with the potential for more to unlock later on down.
Let’s just hope we veterans are grandfathered in to some stuff based on our achievements.
The problem with Garrison is that it was basically a half-baked attempt at housing. While yes it was customizable, the issue was it was too utility; you could do EVERYTHING in your Garrison.
True housing is vanity, much like Transmog. Calling the Garrison housing is like saying adding shredded cheese to a Hot Pocket is cooking; yes it’s food but it’s not a homecooked meal.
Knowing how Blizzard implements things via raid drops, PVP, Trading House, and such for rewards, if there is a really cool furniture piece behind PVP, I sure as heck will do it despite hating and being bad at PVP.
Yeah, there’s absolutely no point to having player housing if it doesn’t feel like a home. If we can’t make it look how we want, then it isn’t a home. If everyone has to live in an Alliance Human house with little customization, then they will be a complete failure.
isn’t that the point of player housing though? where you can have a central place to sit back, do auctions, mail, and progression on your throne chair? there’s only one reason blizz is now doing player housing, blizz tokens and shop currencies to buy vanity items on the shop
The problem was there was EVERYTHING in the Garrison. If you give a small amount of stuff to it, mostly a mailbox, maybe an AH (if you get it), and maybe a small thing here or there.
But it shouldn’t be enough to replace the exploring of the world, you’d still have to go out to explore or craft decor for your abode.
Garrisons were supposed to be a military base of operations for the player to house their faction troops.
(Which is already bad because many players don’t want their characters to be part of their faction military, preferring to be adventurers or mercenaries)
But players want Player Housing for the fantasy of having their own place, not to share a place with a thousand sweaty orcs.
Players wanted to not be homeless, Blizzard made them homeless generals instead lol
one thing i will say, players of 2024 is going to hate player housing now than they did garrisons, and they’ll deserve a half baked player housing they claim they want in this dying game
Zandalari who live amongst lavish pyramids & temples
Sin’dorei who live in magically constructed towers & buildings
Nightborne who live amongst magically empowered structures
and even the Forsaken who know Lordaeron architecture & designs
How they all default into huts is insulting … Especially since you got the resourceful Vulpera and the inventive Goblins to help assist their building endeavours Like jeeze, you may as well name the Horde “Orcs and friends” …
That being said, it’d be cool for the orcs to get some other Draenor architecture, like that derived from Arakkoa, Ogres and even some decor features such as from the Bleeding Hollow Clan – with massive bone spikes peering out the cliffs & ritual locations (whether shamanistic or otherwise).
I think you should be able to pick whatever city you want to put your crib at. Maybe even places like the Fel Hammer in DH’s case.
Your crib should come with two portals:
One to SW/Or
One to current content zone
It’ll make the World of Warcraft feel more like a world, instead of just the Current Zone of Warcraft
Let’s make city’s great again!
Because we have examples of player housing in other MMOs, most of which are completely vanity, that people spend hours and hours not only decorating, but just hanging out in and are clearly successful.
I dont understand all the people who are acting completely clueless like this is completely uncharted territory, when we know(if the system is serviceable) exactly how the playerbase will react to it.
Will there be complainers? Yes, there always is… but its not some big mystery how players will react in aggregate provided the system passes the sniff test.
The reasons garrisons didnt endear the playerbase or stick around is because it completely failed at scratching the itch that player housing is meant to, thats an indictment of garrisons, not the concept of housing nor the playerbase at large.
Blizzard thought they were cooking with garrisons by trying to “reinvent” housing, kinda like how tv show writers will take lore from existing books and try to cook by changing a bunch of plot points and falling on their face.
For whatever ones we don’t get off the bat → 
Let us know!
huts…
Like jeeze, you may as well name the Horde “Orcs and friends” …