My guild is starting to talk about housing since the Midnight announcement is right around the corner, and I just thought of a concern:
If your guild has the minimum number of players for a private neighborhood and you make one, but then your membership drops, what happens? Lose the neighborhood? It becomes public? What?
Anyone who says the beginning of FF14 is good is either a liar or is drinking the kool aid. I like FF14 a lot and it also has one of the worst new player onboarding experiences that have ever existed.
Seriously, their websites and guides are utter crap and the only recent thing they did that was remotely cute was the videos they made but they donât really actually help you play the game more so that they just give you some helpful information while playing the game.
Seriously, FF14âs beginning is an absolute chore and anyone who tells you otherwise should reflect on their cult behavior. And this is coming from someone who geniunely loves the game. Itâs a genuinely bad game in the beginning, and that does it no favors when trying to sell it to other people.
Also donât bother RPing, its dogwater. Absolutely terrible. If you enjoy clubs and sitting in houses then sure I guess. Which then begs the question if this will be the fate of WoW RP if people arenât careful.
Hey now! I for one enjoyed XIVâs bloated, overlong introduction experience.
But Iâm also a big fan of Morrowindâs fatigue and roll-based combat system, so maybe take my gaming opinions with a grain of salt.
Agreed that the RP wasnât all that impressive though.
nah. people will continue to host story-based events for their guilds.
I donât make them public because I need narrative investment in characters involved in my major storylines.
Iâd like to see more of the interior options.
Much of it looks human. I know they showed some Belf things.
I want to see much more variety. I wish they would hurry up with the previews.
Iâm hoping more housing previews actually happen when they preview Midnight next month.
We know from the announcement that thereâs supposed to be open play time/public demo of housing during Gamescom so we should see more information from Blizzard, various creators, and hopefully some regular players as well. Gamescom seems absolutely allergic to putting out detailed schedules in advance, but the announcement also hinted at more panels over the course of the event.
WoWâs official FB page just asked, âWhen you design your house, which NPC is absolutely not allowed to visit?â
Does this mean weâre going to have NPCs wandering around like we did in garrisons? Iâd be happy not to have visits by named NPCs.
BTW, comments on the official post seem to indicate Brann is the least wanted NPC. Honorable mentions: Nathanos and Anduin.
Well Brann is not allowed to set foot in my house!
If I can choose who wanders around, can I choose Bwansamdi? I think heâd add a vibe.
It would be cool if you could invite a ton of pet battle NPCs to your house and make a WoW-kemon gym.
Imagine if we could choose. You could have it set by racial preference, favorites, all villains, etc. What if they gave us choices like Sylvanas or the Jailer?
And what if you could hold them in place so they didnât path the house or the neighborhood? You could build a dungeon of baddies to be defeated.
OrâŚwhat if they gave you generic body NPCs you could design and transmog? Make an NPC Sethrak or Ogre.
I want my house full of goth Forsaken, belf himbos, and sassy goblins. If I canât have this my entire experience with housing will be RUINED. Ruined, I say.
Oh and as much as I hated SL, I want my owl boi servant back, because I loved the idea of commanding an adoring follower to play me soothing music when I was feeling vexed.
If Nathanos tried to enter my house Iâd simply assume I was in hell.
Just like furnishings and decor, do not force me to accept anything Blizz âchoosesâ.
I want a blank slate interior and no NPCâs unless I specifically choose them.
Who do I not want? Thrall.
Every week a new Special Guest will visit your Player House! Complete their daily Guest Quests to acquire House Coins, a new currency which can be used to purchase Player House Decor!
Muradin can sleep on my couch. I didnât forget that youâre still alive buddy, even if the rest of your family sort of ignores you when theyâre having their moment in the spotlight.
I dunno, any NPC that comes to pay what they owe can come right on in - youâd be amazed at how many lore characters need credit lines.
I actually wouldnât object to NPCs visiting if it was a toggle on/off kinda situation. Letting Aggra, Durak and Rehze crash in my house for a week or so while Thrall runs around in Durotar and Orgrimmar doing Faction Leader stuff, or have the kids rambling through the house while their parents are at a Faction Leader meeting would be fun.
Letting Baine and Mayla stay over to get out of the chaos and noise of Orgrimmar and getting to eavesdrop on their conversations would also be nice.
Letting Wrathion, Faerin and Anduin crash in my little mage-tower in Elwynn for some privacy and home-style comforts rather than deal with the whirlwind of legality and diplomacy that Stormwind and her Council of Nobles would demand and letting the three friends relax and unwind would be a lot of fun and nice to see some of these Champions can actually have a life outside of rushing from one disaster to the next.
If they do implement âNPCs come to visitâ, make it the âstay awhile and listenâ kind of visit, where they wander around and we get some insight into how the World (of Warcraft) is doing outside of our adventures, and how the average joe and the story-important NPCs are hanging on.
Imagining you come home and the local kids have snuck in and are messing with your room full of artefacts and trophies and it becomes a minigame to save the little idiots from the highly dangerous and often hilariously powerful relics and legendaries weâve collected before they mess up the neighborhood, let alone the surrounding regions.
ISTFG
/10 chars
But you know thatâs not what weâd be getting, right? Theyâre going to show up with quests that are FOMO so you have to do them right then or they go away for 6 months.