Player Housing

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I’m at work, and I cackled! No one is in the office suite right now, thankfully, But that just hit me as hilarrious. Thank you.

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I would also be curious - how does having multiple alts with housing work in other games? Would I be restricted to creating one player house?

Perhaps my new Dwarf main would have the main house and Norman would be relegated to a shed?

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RPGs in general have been influenced enough by…hm. I want to say “cozy games” without actually having to use the word “cozy.”

Anyway, I feel like a lot of games now have cosmetic collections as a supplementary grind and it’s actually not a bad idea. I am much more motivated to get nice clothes and furniture than to save the world.

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We are living in a material world (of Warcraft).

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Wildstar (the gold standard) gave everyone their own housing instance. Your alts could visit and freely work on other alts houses. I had to alt swap alot because I had alts of the smallest in-game character height as well as the tallest so I had to do alot of checks and rechecks. Items could be scaled and I realized quickly Aurin (small race) doesn’t fit Mordesh (tall race) scale. Like imagine building a house scaled for a gnome or dwarf then a nelf stops by for a visit.

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If I could post gifs, I’m posting that one with a golden retriever with his head in a cat door and is like hey guys what’s going on.

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How do you get your head into the cat door with the mushroom on it

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Getting your head in is no problem, the challenge is getting your head out and that’s why the fire department is here.

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Peak himbo activity right there.

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Not a dog, but yeah. Kinda still illustrates the point! XD

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Oh lawd he comin’.

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Oh yes. The awkward and slightly creepy Dracthyr Shadow Priest, me, is putting his hat into the ring and running for President of the Home Owner’s Association.

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Some details from this https://www.wowhead.com/news/taliesin-and-evitel-undermine-d-interview-player-housing-d-r-i-v-e-goblin-350719 :

  • Player Housing has been a desire of the WoW Team for a long, long time, “at least as long as WoW has been around.” But it never felt right and had technical challenges to be solved

  • Blizzard is looking for feedback on what players want from the feature. And what players don’t want from it too.

  • The team doesn’t have much to share about Player Housing right now but will have a lot more starting early next year.

  • The biggest lesson learned from Garrisons was the risk of having a personal instanced environment, detracting from the social experiences of the world. Their goal for Player Housing is for a system that feels social.

  • Garrisons were never aimed to be Housing. Their intent was to mimic a military base to wage war against the Ion Horde.

  • Garrisons were intended to have Player Power attached to them, which “could distort gameplay more broadly.” Player Housing “is not a player power feature”.

  • While the teaser showed a “Stormwind-themed” House option, that won’t be the only option.

  • Player Housing is an evergreen feature intended to be expanded throughout patches and expansions.

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Make it lore compliant.

Force the Horde players to not use chairs in their houses.

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he is horde but I don’t think there is a horde of him

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Now that Ion has confirmed that Garrisons were not and were never intended to be player housing, surely people will stop saying “but we already have/had player housing!” over in General Discussion and all over social media. Surely!

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If that was their intention, they failed. They need to hire some military folks to help them out. cough

THIS is what we’ve been saying for years. It’s literally a feature that could be added to every single expac, to patches, etc.

It’s a win-win. There is NO downside.

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I am interested to see what they roll out. You realize of course, that this will give them even more things for sell in the shop. Ikea, coming soon to faction capital near you! If they have the meatballs I’m not that mad.

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Given Blizzard’s track record, its for the best they didnt hire any “experts”. Last thing we need is WoW tied to the likes of Shadversity.

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/cackles in Blizzard