agreed. This release makes player housing just feel like a smaller, less immersive garrison with people around you.
They’re basically just remaking garrisons. I have no faith that player housing will be a good addition. Best case, it’s a waste of time, worst case, there’s some stupid perk added to it that basically forces players into it to stay competitive, even worse worst case (most likely), that perk benefits some classes way mire than others
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At least garrisons had a physical location in the world, even if your personal one was instanced.
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B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-Bingo!
Yeah, I’m glad my expectations were low. All my fears were confirmed in the article:
- There will be items in the shop for IRL money.
- There is a “reward” system that you will have to work on to “unlock” things.
- Limited to Ogrimmar or SW aesthetic with “promises” of additions.
- Groups of people will advance quicker than solo players towards a non-progression feature for some reason.
- Instanced. I did not expect thousands of houses all around Azeroth, and I don’t know what the answer is to counter instances, but instanes just come hand in hand with disconnecting from the world. No matter how “neighborhood”-y you make it feel.
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The points they detailed make them quite a bit different than garrisons.
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You need an anchor point somewhere. The two main cities makes sense as they are already considered hubs in game.
They can either be a neighborhood section in the city, or something slightly outside the city, something that they do in LoTRO. There you go to the housing gate (Michel Delving, Bree, Elf, Dwarf (names escapes me at the moment). Each area has its flavor of house and neighborhood in general look. (Hobbit, Human, Elf, dwarf).
At the housing gate, you select the neighborhood and you’re in that instance of houses.
It makes sense. They starting with something manageable for them. Even LoTRO took a long while to expand their starting housing.
Hopefully, people can visit neighborhoods to see what other people have created.
Disappointing. I knew they would be instanced since there are too many players to fit, but I was hoping we could pick from an array of places. I thought we were taking back Gilneas and stuff since it’s like 50% empty and full of room.
We already did this with TWW prepatch stuff
Asheron’s Call had a large enough world for housing to be on open world plots. WoW does not even after 20 years of expanding.
UO as well.
I do genuinely hope I’m wrong
I am aware, I was saying, I thought we were taking back so it could actually be used for something, such as housing
The ones ive played had individual plots as well. And a world more than large enough. But it being instanced keeps the zones from being bogged down and causing crashes
lol you really thought that we would have millions upon millions of homes sprawled across Azeroth
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This is how it is handled in most modern mmos. But most modern mmos don’t try very hard when it comes to housing and I imagine Blizz will give as little as possible as they always do with everything.
no… please learn to read. thx
I’d be fine with the entrance being like how delves work.
Asherons Call, by best estimates, peaked at 120k active accounts.
UO had what…peaked at 250k briefly before declining
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WoW has how many servers, layers, and shards?
I think its just another addition to keep people quieted down. How much of the playerbase is going to spend a majoirty of their logged in game time dedicated to housing?
It really doesnt have the replay loop that end game content does. Even garrisons were limited in what they were good for on a daily basis.
Housing in and of itself, if you want it to continue to grow with each expansion has to start off with something basic and bare bones to grow off of (IMO).
That way you can add stuff for it each patch rather than a one and done scenario
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Well it’s that, yes, and another cash shop venture.
I never see a Blizz announcement and think it isn’t profit driven.