God, but please, let this make it through to Live.
Please don’t let this be the ‘Garrisons can be in any Zone you want’ kinda promise.
It has been twenty years already, give us the good stuff, please. We’ll sacrifice a Raid Tier. Hellfire, we’ll throw two Raid Tiers over the Altar of Subscriptions and dance naked on main-street if that gets us this level of housing and the ability to make it our own, personal abode.
I think the fact we are seeing the system in action in the videos is pretty good reason to think it will make it to live. The fact it isn’t at Blizzcon to hype people up makes me think something bigger is coming too. But that’s speculation I know
Okay. I am now legitimately excited. I should know better considering history, but this is amazing and everything I could want from an interior standpoint.
I’m not sure what this feeling I’m feeling is. Is…is this what optimism feels like???
If they give me land and let me have free run of my little plot of land just like this, they will have sold me.
For those of us who have been playing for decades at this point, it has been such a long wait.
All the times I was forced to run past the “portal” in SW that led to player housing we still didn’t have…
Damn Blizz. I felt a tear, I think.
How customizable is the ability to remove any and all chairs?
I am so excited about everything I’ve read. This is the content that I’ve been waiting for, for 20 years. A piece of Azeroth, new things to collect and display, a place to hang out with guildies, RP, etc. I’m very stoked!
Well I’m more impressed than I expected to be by their preview, now I’m wondering how long it will take for people to decorate their homes with certain theming inspired by the years of 1939-1945.
How can or do moderate homes?
Is it wrong that I was just waiting for Norman’s reaction to gauge how well Blizz did?
Edit: I noticed that one of the pictures in the article had a full on bar counter with barrel stools. It also had diagonal walls near the door - you can see the diagonals better on the overhead view - note that they used bookshelves in one spot to form a curve around walls.
They mentioned “How do I show off my collection of transmogs, pets, and mounts?”, “How do Professions fit in?” So they’re considering both of these.
They mentioned a huge mansion on the outside or a tiny shack on the outside, so it appears we’re going to have an exterior as well as an interior. The interior looks like it’s a phase.
There was a Christmas tree, so we can assume holiday decor. There were also cobwebs. There are at least 2 different types of plates of food visible.
Rakham and Norman hyping it up is a good sign. Now they just need to get Enekie and we will know Blizz has cooked.
looks left and right
Enekie? Has anyone seen Enekie?
Does this mean I can put flamingos on your lawn also?
I’ve kept my hopes for what they are doing with this restrained because the level of disappointment at their weird decision making skills over the years is palpable. I feel like there’s insight in this, beyond what they’re just “showing us”, if you look closer.
What points me towards that optimism is what Rakham pointed out and it’s what I was looking for:
To allow this level of interaction by the player means (at least I’m hoping it means) that they’re aiming for more than just “buy house A and decorate it.”
They are giving us a level of builder’s freedom and that’s really what I wanted.
Everything in the rooms shown, appears moveable / removeable. (inc fireplaces, windows, etc) Which means, yes we are getting bare bones empty rooms. They aren’t decorating anything in my house. It’s all mine to do what I want with it.
“Players have taken bushes and turned them into garland” - means we’re getting bushes. Bushes are naturally outside a house. Does that mean getting also trees? It would seem more than likely. If we’re getting bushes and trees, are we getting an exterior environment we can manipulate? I lean towards yes, with reservation.
what do some of those rooms show?
Goblin decor, inside a human style house, with “bushes” decorating the walls, a BE style carpet, a NE style room divider, etc. That means they’re letting us mix styles. I saw cobwebs, two different types of fireplaces in the same room.
You can change the wall, floor and ceiling styles, mix and match each individually.
I don’t expect Valheim-levels of freedom, but this is far beyond what I was expecting and yeah, I’m pretty excited.
Show me the outside of this and let me see what’s going on there; but I’m ready to get on the hype train.
I noticed that too. If I can just let a couple of my pets free range in my house I will be beyond happy. All the kitties, all the time!
Kina the cat lady.
Also no.
I was talking to my wife and I realized that, at least for one of my characters, it doesn’t matter how the outside of his house looks. His home is actually an extra dimensional space… like a pocket dimension… so the “simple shack with a mansion inside” they mention in the article actually works out great!
Then we got to wondering just how big could we make the interior of the house? Could you make it a whole city?
Oooh, whole city. O.O
It would be nice to know what kind of space limitations we have.
I read that in the article, but it didn’t sink in. Basically, in terms of interior vs exterior, we are getting a Tardis. I am more than cool with that idea.
Yes! That’s exactly what we’re getting (maybe). I just gotta know now what the limits are. I am sure it will have them. I mean it can’t be infinite, right? Right? Oh god, could you imagine if it was? It wont be, but just wow…
God. Okay. I can’t get over-hyped but this article really has rekindled some of my optimism!
Rakham, just breathe slowly. Slowly take a deep breath, the slowly exhale. Repeat as needed.
There will be limits. So it’s a Temu Tardis. So far I think there is reason to be optimist! It seems like they have some sort of a clue, and maybe they listened. What they showed was already beyond my expectations.
*Hyperventilating in a paper bag. *
Yes. Limits. There will be limits. There have to be.
I said this in the weird thread but I really do hope we can put our battle pets in the house like we can in ESO. My favorite part of the Garrison is seeing all my favorite battle pets parading about. In ESO, you can program basic behaviors into them, too.
I also came up with a really fun Neighborhood feature, where if your neighborhood has completed certain quests, NPCs from the world can show up to say hello. They won’t be in your house, so you don’t have to look at NPCs you can’t remove in your space, but it’d be nice to be visited by our friends that we make from questing. Or Xal’atath shows up and tips over your trash bins. Something like that.
But this is already well and above my expectations, which were “please god just better than XIV. I want a house. I want a house. let me just HAVE A HOUSE.”
At this point, I’m still a hater.
I’m sorry, but this is one of those emergency glasses that’s right up there with High Elves for the Alliance and Ogres for the Horde–one of those very simple requests that can never be granted and can never be answered why it isn’t granted.
There’s got to be a catch. Even Post-Scandal Corporate-Approved Politically Appropriate Blizzard is still kind of a stinker.