Real Player Housing: What Do YOU Want To Have?

[Liadariel-runetotem]

@Paen-area-52

I want guild halls, where players can have their own room.

Class halls with our own rooms would be doable and more interesting.

[Kittsuera-lothar (Kittsuera)]

this is true player housing and i held my sub to that till the day they stopped taking money for it. even with very limited time spent in the game, the feature alone was worth it imo. but its very important for a game to be functional for a wide audience. bad technical issues can ruin the best of games.

[Sasarai-blades-edge]

A breakfast nook and maybe a hot tub

[Trueshot-terokkar]

I would like to see guild housing. Each guildie gets one brick per hour of gameplay, so larger guilds could build bigger more impressive structures. Ideally it would have an area where prospective invitees could come in and see trophies of world-kills on the wall, maybe even watch small movies of the guild takedowns of bosses. Give reasons for people to come to our structure and perhaps join the guild.

Obviously it would cost per game month for upkeep as well but it would need to give players a reason to have it. Perhaps like rested bonus there could be a “double-rested bonus” for logging off while in the housing or something.

For RP’ers, the ability to add/create decorative RP objects would be a real boon. If you are a ancient vampire lord who escaped from Revendreth ages ago via a door of shadows and want to show mementos from home - you should be able to go on special quests to unlock them. Then you can invite other RP’ers into your home to read custom written books on your adventures.

[Mursh-blackwing-lair (Mursh)]

I dont care about player housing at all. Wouldnt matter to me if they never add it
in a expansion. But others would love it. So, it would be fine if they added it.

However, it should be on its own. not connected to character, or story progression
at all. It needs to be its own side project with no connection to any other
part of the game beyond possibly a profession.

They could add furniture recipes to engineering, and recipes for different size rugs
to tailoring.

[Snikrot-silver-hand (Snikrot)]

I want an NPC living inside that I either have to:

A.) Murder
or
B.) Keep Alive while I steal everything around her without her noticing and replacing it with my own stuff.

Basically that corner house in Balmora that everyone knows they occupied and turned into their own house.

[Jentai-atiesh]

Yup I had my sub the same way. I was on entity till the very end, well when they all forced us to move to the 4 mega servers.

[Dedaru-moon-guard (Dedaru)]

@Fortuna-madoran

What shouldn’t there be? Shopkeepers.

I think the only shopkeepers I would put are one’s that sell plain and cheap furniture for chump change.

[Boc-warsong]

@Turgin-shadow-council

What do You want it to have?

none of it, ever

go build a garrison

they put proper housing in and all the crap that would get sold in a cash store for it and I’m out, done.

[Darkwing-ghostlands]

Xcuse me who’s calling me a nerd- twit…The Talent tree was awesome and it has been shown in BFA there can be an NPC that can be paid for talent switching…

Plus I’d like to see RBG open to all- having passed a certain Ilv

[Soulebreaker-hyjal]

I like a lot of these ideas.

I’d want my house style to be Belf of course in Silvermoon. Warrior guard also Belf. I’d also want guards that aren’t considered any major class or race etc. I’d want Meatball. https://www.wowhead.com/champion=986/meatball I also want my dog to be in my house. https://www.wowhead.com/npc=59536/dog

I want Gamon as my acquaintance.

Also I hope Meatball gets a graphics upgrade along with Dog. Meatball similar to Hogger’s upgrade in HotS https://i.imgur.com/DXiLQxr.jpg and Dog to match the newer dog models (maybe we can even pick the breed of dog?) https://i.imgur.com/JZueTKC.jpg

[Turgin-shadow-council (Turgin)]

Garrisons are trash player housing.

Putting in PH and trying to shove the content for it all behind a cash wall DESERVES to have Blizzard get your unsub. That’s AWFUL game design, as those content elements should be put into the game and scattered around as various drops, mat’s, items, crafted things, patterns, etc.

[Liolang-daggerspine]

@Turgin-shadow-council

So, real player housing. What do You want it to have?

How would YOU like to see real, not Garrison, player housing in game?

I would think the base premise would start with plots of land, either overlapping then instanced into individual player housing, or individual player housing plots all across the entire in game world. The second seems to be the most rewarding, however it’s going to take the most work to code up.

If you don’t like the above, what would you want to see?

As for buildings, I’d figure starting with a sort of mini-Garrison, just instead of a base, the best description I can give is to basically make a farm, just WoW style. This might honestly include a barn of some sort, various profession workshops, and to note if said shops are professions the player actually has, they should provide a full place to work on site.

The options of coding a real form of player housing, rather than forced bases, or Garrisons as WoW added in Warlords of Draenor, would go a long way I think over time.

Garrisons were a sound concept, however between scaling options back and limiting what was available to be built at once along with not having any true customizations, and the lack of racial buildings outside of Human and Orc was… telling.

TL:DR:

• Farm-like plots rather than Garrisons. Forced content filters as Garrisons were in WoD is what largely killed player interest in said Garrisons as I recall. I could be wrong.
• As above, instead of Garrisons, a fully customizable farm plot with a main house for the player, maybe a farm / stable for pets, mounts, etc., at least one or more Profession buildings, and if the player has said profession, the workshop should fully support it
• One of the things I notice WoW’s developers like to do is epic do-over and rule of cool, just when it suits them
• If the Developers want to reimagine player housing into something the players might actually like, the non forced content filter approach is better than what we got with Garrisons in WoD.

By freeing players to both build and customize, from scratch, whatever they like, even hopefully creating new professions and other profession options, like carpentry, scrimshaw, tailoring to make rugs, throwrugs, curtains, drapes, etc., I think the in game livelihood of WoW would greatly improve.

Also, if I please may, returning as many if not at least all of the removed RPG elements back into WoW would also raise and encourage player retention long term.

Constructive criticism, hopefully helpful feedback please? Also, what do you need / want to see from player housing in game?

Edit: Oh, sorry, and a portal room in each customizable home that leads to each guild hall, kind of like a Class Hall, just it’s set to be accessible to each Guild that’s tied to it. This would also be entirely customizable, I hope, and would include, maybe, a landing site for either an Alliance Skyhammer or Horde Airship, for the guild to use to get around.

Would make assembling for raids and getting there far more fun, especially if possible air raid encounters can be safely made and fun to do on the way to any given raid.

Panda farm with a few extras…no AH though. Just a mailbox and a house with some storage…maybe a bank and Guild bank access.

[Rakham-bloodsail-buccaneers]

@Jentai-atiesh

This level of housing, i can hope and dream again

This is the only acceptable level of housing. Anything less than this is lacking. Other games may have some cute niche features but Wildstar is still the best.

[Alundriel-benediction]

@Izhana-malganis

There is just NO way whatsoever, in which housing is not going to be instanced.

Anyone remember housing in Star Wars Galaxies? Groups of people built towns on the planets. Granted, they were mostly generic building, but it added so much to the game. It felt like a living world. I miss that game a lot.

[Aleister-bloodhoof]

Depends on the character. Housing should, if anything, have class flavor.

For instance, on this character, I’d like to see a cabin, and inside you’d find various bear skin rugs, some head mounts, maybe a way to hang and display those artifact weapons and other items we’ve earned, which frankly should be the case in any of the housing. You get the idea.

My druid would like to see something along the lines of the inside of a tree. Vines and other vegetation growing on the walls. And yes, places to display armor, special weapons and the like.

My rogue. My rogue’s house would be neat and orderly. Very unassuming. Until you pull down on a certain candle stick, which causes a bookshelf to move, revealing access to a stone stairway, leading down into a dungeon like room full of various chips, dips, chains and whips. Blades galore and a treasure stash/

[Turgin-shadow-council (Turgin)]

I’m all for adding this to the game as well!

Race, Class, Spec, all of these and even Professions should be reflected in a Player Housing design scheme.

The issue is that Blizzard said, “Garrisons cost us a raid tier.”

I wonder how many Raid tiers real player housing would cost if the current loss in work productivity is any indicator.

[Eviaeline-area-52]

@Alundriel-benediction

Anyone remember housing in Star Wars Galaxies?

No joke, SWG is to date the best MMO ever made. Real shame what they did to it.

[Turgin-shadow-council (Turgin)]

If only Blizzard were willing to take notes from other MMORPG’s, make their own version, and then attempt to iterate these ideas into fun in game experiences and content.

Wildstar based and yet improved player housing, toss in a big spread of FFXIV style mats, items, patterns, etc., for the insides, and give players the chance to place bases and buildings throughout the world.

Quests that aren’t just in game Disneyland adventures on rails.

Actually balanced Race / Class / Spec combos, all across the board.

Gear that is properly stated out and scales well, unlike now.

I’d type that anything in another MMORPG is fair game to start off of, just Blizzard would need to make its own version before pushing said content live.

And that this has all been entirely missed since 2004 is sad.

[Rita-velen]

I would love the option to paint the house different colors. With fun little pink roof! Etc

I would also love a guild hall or like a barracks for the people in my guild to log off in. I would probably be happy with a guild one, no need for my individual one. As long as members can put stuff in and decorate their little sections!