Really, why are you all so obsessed with playerhousing?

While I have no idea of how much resources it would actually take, from a laymans perspective, time spent making a whole new game mode like this would require more than just a few people working on it. Given how garrisons turned out and the similarity in concept they are to player housing, it can be inferred that making player housing really in depth costs alot of resources. In I wanna say the Hazelnutty interview Ion had, he said that while he would like to make player housing, the resources used to make it right are not feasible to use but would like to try and find a way to pencil it in.

From all of these, I think it can be safely inferred that making player housing is a resource intensive thing and that to do so will cause other parts of the game to suffer. By no means am I against player housing but, there needs to be an understanding that it will likely take awhile.

With the newish trend of big corp buying up all the real estate they can, it don’t look good in the future either

I like my garrison(s). I wish I could keep expanding on them, and that new portals were added every xpac to get to the new zones. It’s just nice to feel like you own a little slice of this virtual world

Omg I nearly choked on my bagel when I read that! That would cause some absolutely hilarious forum threads.

But would it really be a “whole new game?” In SWTOR all the decorations they give you is the same furniture they use for NPC housing. Decorations too.

This is why I don’t understand why people wanna armchair game design. We really don’t know how hard or easy it would be. Let them figure it out.

Well made player housing, like Wildstar’s was, is really fun and a great retention mechanic. I still argue that Wildstar only survived for as long as it did because of its housing system.

Garrisons are not a good example. That whole system was garbage.

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Im not a player housing champion or anything, but if it existed Id want it to be a combo of Garrisons and class hall.

Like as a hunter, or any class, it has any significant weapons on the wall and a T stand for my armor sets. But it must also have access to a bank and t-mog station. And a portal to the faction capital. And the esthetic to an area you prefer vs cold wasteland and sticks or cold stone walls in a forest.

And the design is permanent without a ton of gold. And takes a week or 2 to remodel it.

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Ion himself said it’d cost at least a raid tier initially, and of course it’d need ongoing support dedicated.

It’s not exactly unusual for a business to understand how their budget and product development time works. The better question is: why do so many people in GD think they know better what it would take?

Well you keep paying Blizz for the content you’re bored to death of. Why would they alienate the people who enjoy the content for those who’ll pony up no matter what?

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Affect in a good way or affect in a bad way?

Because the way I look at it, the sooner Blizzard stops focusing their resources on temporary systems that take up the most development time and move towards things that are more evergreen, the sooner this game gets better for everyone.

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The game needs more ways to engage people aside from raids, Mythic plus and pvp.

You could throw a bunch of furniture in dungeons as drops like the transmog system and people would go nuts over it. I doubt it’ll ever happen though.

Agreed. Creating potential shared spaces and “sandboxes” for the MMO population to interact with is clearly a bad idea. Gives people too much incentive and possibility for socialization and community-made content rather than grinding M+ or their dailies.

Sure. Go play FF14 and ESO and you can try them for yourself.

Garrisons were not player housing. They were vaguely based on it. But definitely not it.

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I will get a log cabin in the forest one day. Thanks

My mom lol got a vacation calling you an “a” something before.

You make sense tho. Idk what her issue is.

Absolutely, yes. Although, it’s not illegal to supply Anarchists unless the Anarchist in question is a terrorist, which I’m not. My aunt bought me a FN Five-SeveN recently (one of her real estate contacts also peddles firearms) and she’s definitely a capitalist. I joked upon opening the gift, “So
 this was your plan all along; to arm the Anarchists and the Commies, eh? Well done, komrade.”

She rolled her eyes, but she only visits once a decade - so it’s tolerable. Plus, I love this gun.

I don’t care if Blizzard makes player housing, but if they do
 they need to be disconnected from the world. No chat channels, not even between the housing areas
 No crafting, and no AH
 basically nothing that would allow bots to hide.

Cause its FUN!

You can’t stop people from hiding. You won’t ever see any of my toons because I own a brutosaur and I don’t have to mingle with the commoners. :face_with_monocle:

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Well, I guess it is good that I do have more respect for Anarchism than I do Capitalism. I do quite like a mixture of all the 'isms though.

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