"Player housing is something many of us would want ourselves. Putting together any package for an expansion is a mix of what thematically suits the expansion, what’s going to appeal to different types of players, but also what would be required to deliver that feature at that level players expect and deserve and what would we have to give up to make that happen.
Player housing is a big one. It’s one of those things to do right. It’s a big undertaking. If we were to do it, it’d probably have to span multiple expansions. It’s a large enough feature in terms of just the art.
Back in WoD, there were just two types of Garrisons – one for the Alliance and one for the Horde. A Blood Elf player who expected one with a Silvermoon architecture wouldn’t get one due to resource constraints. It’s very time-consuming and would cost us for example a raid tier.
The dream of player housing is still alive and it’s something we want to do, but it isn’t a thing we will be able to do in Dragonflight.
I don’t care at all for it, and with that in mind, I would much rather they put out other type of content that may or may not appeal to me, but I do know that housing wouldn’t.
I have absolutely no idea why FF14 does that, wait no I do. Because you lose your house on inactivity, it’s a way to keep you playing because you don’t want to lose the house you worked hard for.
And FF14 devs are being praised for it, whilst WoW players keep rambling about timegates and MAUs.
Just coming in to say I’d rather not see it inplemented. Its just more non content that’ll take away from creating new or updating current content models.
Basing this off of experience from other games with player housing
100% of what I said about that was true though and you know it. When have they added some new content in that they said was going to be fun that did not turn into a grindy questing hub?
They just added Dragonriding and it’s the best thing that’s ever been added to the game
No, I don’t. What I do know is that if I had such a seethingly negative opinion of a game or company I wouldn’t be spending time engaging with its community. Is your time worth so little to you?
Then why are there dozens of threads from players saying they hate it and that it caused them to unsub. Im going to go back into retail and see for myself then. I havent played it in a while. Some of you people say it actually is good right now. Fine I will go log in and actually play the game if that makes you feel any better. I’ll log into my retail pally right now.
They kinda tried it as the garrison
Lot of work probably not as well received as it could have been
I believe the last mention I read was for them to do player housing the would want to do it would require a new engine.
I don’t wanna sound like a broken record but garrisons were also supposed to have different buildings and able to put them in a different location and look how it turned out to be. They literally had to scratch a full patch with new zone and raid allegedly because of them.
I’ll reiterate what I said earlier. I don’t care for housing, and I’d rather they put the dev time into something I may or may not like instead of something I know I won’t.
Which is EXACTLY what happened. And then people were “surprised” at what happened, even though I was right on the money and telling everyone the limitations involved for ages.
Could Blizzard do more player housing with their “slots” Mr. Potato Head system, like the garrison had?
Sure.
But the player housing folks screamed at the top of their lungs that THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE.
So Blizzard won’t. There’s no point in them doing it.
Make it for community’s and guilds to build a city, and give players a moderate sized room they can customize with achievement oddity’s and whatnots. Archology is a good place to help add stuff to said home.
Give them a sort of reward system for retuning home that grants cosmetics, mounts, and perhaps TP coins. However make it so that only profession tables are located at said home, so players will still have to leave to go to said auction house, pvp/rep vendors.
Make it so the said housing can see what’s going on in said community city so you can see a out ya window, but no one can see in.
But make it 100% optional content, sorta like the Halfhill farm in Pandaria minus the crop growing and rep.
Other then that I cant say its a good idea for wow though, its always been a vagabond life for the usual champion.
Archology is a good place to help add stuff to said home.
