Id really love to know why this is. Great gold sink. Great time sink. A perfect way to add new profs. I dont see the issue. Has anything ever been said about this? Does the WoW Family really not want housing added?
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The easiest answer is that they don’t have the time or manpower, Garrison cost them a raid tier and WOD as an expansion, and If they want a gold or time sink, they could just introduce another gold sink mount (Brutosaur for example is really easy to make).
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housing would make this the only game i play rn
i need housing tho so i play BDO too and ESO and FF and pretty much anything with housing that i can get my hands on
it’s a must have for games
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Because they can’t even figure out how to balance the stuff they already have in game.
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Check out Shroud of the Avatar for housing.
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Because imagine if Elwynn Forest turned into New York City.
Houses everywhere can ruin the atmosphere when the playerbase is “this” large.
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Not a game for housing. Or they don’t want people sitting in the houses, wanting you to participate in the content, zones, etc they’ve spent years to make.
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Panda house.
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My guess is lack of resources and people to do a project like that.
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As I sit in SW that’s been around since Vanilla because it’s the only city that has everything in it.
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Make it instanced.
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If you fly around the vanilla and BC zones you can find tons of open space very sparsely textured. I see plenty of room to build a few cities with lots of apartments. Gold sinks would be villas built into hillsides with waterside views.
Farms and ranches would probably have to be instanced.
I think - just guessing-that if they put a few cosmetic upgrades, say, a tower that looks like the architecture in Silvermoon for your Blood Elves apartment, or small room built from artfully woven living trees for your Night elf- in the cash shop- they’d easily pay for the artists to create it.
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“Players want housing.”
“How can we justify something like that which doesn’t thematically fit in a game about war?”
“We’ll give them an outpost and make them upgrade it into a fortress. It’ll be a quest hub, too.”
“What kind of quests?”
“We’re working on this mission table thing where you send followers out to do quests.”
“But no actual quests?”
“They won’t notice. And we can give everybody a flower garden, mine, and fishing pond so they won’t have to go outside or buy mats. They can even grind up an auction house of their own. Who would want to go out when you can get everything you need right in your home base?”
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It is a system I have 0 desire to participate in. And just imagine all the additional storage Blizzard will have to invest in for every player’s housing. Heck, I’m sure there is a portion of the player base that does want a housing system, will want to be able to have a house for each toon they have. It would be massive.
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It ain’t got nothing to do with resources they just don’t want it stated it many times get over it. like housing will make this game better. all the games with housing how they doing? wow is still on the top without housing so wasted resources. only game even close to wow is ff14. and ya i know they don’t post subs anymore but y’all know this is still the most popular mmo. housing does nothing for wow maybe those other games should of copied wow more eh?
This is the reason:
For years in this forum, lots of players have asked for a feature the player called “player housing”. But they were not asking for the same feature. Each player was asking for a different set of features and calling that set “player housing”.
Blizzard can’t do that. Blizzard can’t make custom games for each of us, giving each of us the features that we want.
Nothing Blizzard creates would fulfill all these (very different) requests for something called “player housing”.
Blizzard already gave us garrisons, which had MOST of the features that MOST players asked for in “player housing”. Not all, of course.
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I think the reason is that too many people have different tastes in housing. If they create a homey cabin, someone else will want a castle. If they give you an townhouse in Stormwind, someone else will want a beach house. So after all the effort they’ve made 10% of the players base happy and 90% unhappy. That’s not really worth the effort.
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This, people complain when the world looks empty. Last thing they need is the people sitting in houses, and besides rewards are not content. The game needs more content, not more rewards. Housing would take away resources that could be used to make content.
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I wish people would stop using Warlords as an example. Garrisons were not player housing. They were a game within a game. Player housing is just a simple place to decorate and put your stuff. It need not cost a lot of development resources if it’s just kept simple like that. Unfortunately, going overboard is something Blizzard devs tend to do whenever they think they have a good idea and I think that this is what keeps housing out of the game, because in the minds of the devs this simple idea is seen as something much bigger than it needs to be.
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According to them players will not populate the world and would be in their instance all day . Garrisons kinda proved that
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