So…someone is again discussing Player Housing, but it made its way all the way to Wowhead this time. What do you guys like or dislike about this concept:
Its Doable. The only thing is that it should be a phasing thing so each player who owns a house/apartment/housing area has the ability to customize the way that they want to express it.
Guild housing would be great addition as well but it’s going to require an entire guild effort in order to claim one.
Just as long as they don’t make it as a chore like garrisons were. We’re chillin and I love the concept.
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Doable and realistically an eventuality considering how many other MMOs do it.
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I’ve seen this. To be honest, Ultima Online that is like 25 years old has a better system.
Housing is one of those things where I think people need to be careful what they wish for.
If it is anything like garrisons, it will kill the roleplay community. Everyone will be asking where everyone is while they sit alone in their house.
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After spending a few years in FFXIV, who has no RP community outside of discord, I have to wonder if the same fate would also befall WoW. There’s one major difference between the two games, though: WoW has RP designated servers and FF does not.
Guilds in WoW already spend most of their time outside of Stormwind, leaving those who aren’t guilded, or those who’s guilds are based in stormwind, to populate the city… and there is absolutely no shortage of people populating Stormwind. Will houses truly sap the city of its life? Or will they be used as a private place to do private things only? Will they be used as “clubs” for characters to dance in? Bars for them to drink in? How would they advertise these places? There are a lot of questions… ultimately, I don’t feel like they would be as successful as people think because this game’s community is just not built to support it.
Not FOR housing, per se… but I’m not convinced it would be the death of the game, is what I’m getting at. /shrug
I love the idea of player housing but I love the idea of guild halls more.
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FF has a massive community and events held in housing every day across multiple servers. I’m not really sure where this is coming from.
Overall any housing is good housing. The community aspect of FF is really preferable to me but it also comes with the downside of extremely limited plots available. Still, having a community of people and multiple rp locations in one district is generally fantastic.
If I could get it my way we’d have star wars galaxies housing. But the maps simply aren’t anywhere near big enough. Phased houses, similar to garrisons, will likely be our best bet.
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I don’t think it will be the death of the game. In all honesty, housing will likely cause the biggest boost to player numbers in a decade. If some if it becomes based off having an active sub, we’ll see people pay a sub just to maintain their house. Ultima Online still survives to this day off people refusing to turn off their sub and have their house fall. There are a lot of different forms they could go with, each having their positives and their drawbacks.
But we can assume it will likely be instanced. Unless they do a major revamp/expansion to the map and cities, I can’t imagine non-instanced housing. New World where the instance was accessed in town would somewhat mitigate the problem for the roleplaying community as they could just step outside into Stormwind.
My worry is though that they will go with something where you have to travel to somewhere to enter your phase/instance like the Garrison. That is where I would see it being very dangerous for the rp community. It isn’t a given obviously, but it is something I would be concerned about.
We can only dream right? I would love something like this. A major expansion of the map, personal houses and guild halls not being instanced but out in small groves in the forest or just off the main road. Could have even a few plots in the towns that would require active upkeep so they were being used by active people/guilds. It would need to be better restricted than SWG, which was better restricted than Ultima Online which eventually saw every open space covered by a house.
And the game had a party finder to advertise those houses with. WoW does not have anything like it- our current LFG would not be sufficient unless an “RP” function was added. Furthermore, discord isn’t widely used by the community either unlike FF. This is what I’m getting at. I’m not saying one is better than the other, I’m saying they’re different games with different methods of communication that will result in different uses of player housing that will unlikely be WoW’s downfall, and unlikely to be as popular as people think it will be.
If we pretend blizzard couldn’t just also add a feature to LFG alongside housing, then it’s worth noting the listings for events in ff discord is basically just posting events on the forums here.
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/shrug
We’ll never know until they do it, ey? Everything here’s just conjecture anyhow. Would be cool to see, though. Does make me wonder if “club RP” would become a bigger thing. xD
I’d love to see it added. They’d need to take the time to make sure it’s done right but I think it’s possible.
Garrisons sucked because they were required content. You had to do it. You literally couldn’t play the game without doing it. Housing, if done correctly (as in, the way literally every other game does it) should be optional.
Blizzard’s recent switch to actually caring about content outside of The Big Three™️ - raids, mythics and PVP - give me more hope for a housing system than I ever had before. Another poster said that FF’s RP community doesn’t “exist outside of Discord,” but as someone who has been heavily involved in that community… couldn’t disagree more. RP in that game is propped up by its housing system and its addition into WoW will finally push the RP community into more interesting spaces than Stormwind, which now uses assets so dated they’d better fit Wizard 101.
I genuinely hope they add it in the future - until then, I’ll be drinking my pEpsilon.
honestly not a deal breaker for me. I don’t care one way or the other if we do or do not get it. It dose not denture me on rping and honestly I think it would hurt world rp more on having it since guilds and what not would just recluse themselves to those spaces. Yes it is nice to have a safe spot for anti trolling, but outside of recruitment no one will see how anyone runs guild events.
I think they could probably do player owned housing and guild housing together as a combined feature somehow. I know in some other games it works that way, you can purchase one for either.
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I mean I wonder how come Blizzard doesn’t actually do what FF14, ESO, and Guild Wars 2 did with Guild Halls, and Player Housing where you can actually visit people and open up your house to everyone that isn’t phase loneless like what Garrisons were?
I’m still one of those stubborn people who really doesn’t wish player housing comes to WoW. World RP is limited and scarce as it is 
Have you seen MG Alliance lately?
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I would love to see a system that spawns more houses ( either player houses or just for decoration ) in the area if a certain number of players “live” in that village, to simulate urban sprawl.
Let’s say you want to settle your house somewhere. You travel to village X. There are a number of spots where you can put down your house. When a certain numbers of players has settled down, new spots appear. Perhaps with room for larger houses.
That system should be repetable a number of times so in the end, you actually have a small village that you can walk around in. Just having a village with one spawn point for a player house seems kind of dull with today’s standards.
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I would like to see a housing system where there is a limit to the housing stock on their server/realm and players can snap it up and rent it out at exorbitant prices. /sarcasm