That’s…literally what they said, there’s going to be whole sectors of houses, either 50 public house neighborhoods with randoms or like 50 guild houses.
"Before we go, we want to mention the concept of Neighborhoods as a small tease… Houses are organized into roughly fifty plot Neighborhoods, letting players live next to each other, work together, and share in the rewards of being part of the Neighborhood. Neighborhoods are instanced but crucially also persistent so your neighbors can be your neighbors for years to come (or until one of you moves). Neighborhoods also come in two flavors:
Public Neighborhoods, which the game servers are responsible for creating as needed and maintaining.
Private Neighborhoods created by groups of friends or guilds to inhabit, progress, and customize together.
So, while an individual player can have a house, a community can have a Neighborhood!"
I agree, but I think they are unwilling to commit to anything this early in the design because if anything changes contrary to what was said the pitchforks come out, so I don’t blame them.
But as i said, what i see as profit driven is: gilded brutosaur mount. Something i have to fork over for if i want it. Or other mounts and such.
I do think the token was more to stop RMT, with the added benefit of gaining their profits, and then overtime has just become a currency transfer. But that was player driven (and bound to happen)
The only thing we disagree on is our PoV on what makes it such. Same outcome thougj
People were tossing out some HIGH-FLYING ideas when the first announcement went out. Feeding off of each other’s suggestions and treating them like the actual roadmap, making assumptions about how things would work and then building several layers past that.
I was basically the grinch raining on their parade, pointing out that we had no idea what the functionality would be yet. Me against basically my whole server all signing their in-character names like it was some kind of binding endorsement.
That having been said, I think a lot of what they wanted (guild housing, basically) might be covered by the “Neighborhoods” feature, potentially. It remains to be seen if they’ll take what they can get or throw a fit about it.
