I want an apartment in my major city. Just a place where you walk or fly to that is implied to have the locations. I want it to be based on the city i choose. I want to be able to have interior choices based on my class and race, but the major exterior asethetic needs to be based on the city i pick. I would want more options than just the racial cities. I want to be able to live in other cities. Shat, Oribos, Valdrakken, Dornogal, Dazar’alor/Borealus, and maybe even some raid locations like BRD, NH, ICC, Ulduar/titan facility, the timeways, etc. Also maybe some places from the past, like old Darn or old Dalaran.
But in a nutshell, lots of options, and i better be able to stick all my loot on the walls.
I think FF14 Does okay with their furniture cash shop items. They are limited to past holiday items and dont even appear until a year after you could get them in game.
Garrisons had two major flaws. Do you recall what they were?
No reasonable amount of customization. You had an orc camp or a draenei camp. You were FORCED to have it set up a certain way to get things done, and to be fair, it didn’t matter because it was all red and spikes anyways.
It wasn’t connected in the right way to a public hub. It needs to have an entrance in Org or SW. and it cannot have all the amenities. You want people to go in and do stuff but also COME OUT. They sort of had that with the farm in Pandaria, but the issue was, again, it wasn’t a major city with all the necessary hub aspects. So it felt busy, but not like you were living IN a city.
Every profession needs to be tied to it, as in have the ability to make things for housing. Example, tailors can make tapestries and curtains, say you want a tapestry depicting a certain scene, you need mats from that raid. Leatherworkers can make a bearskin rug, etc. Or taxidermy requires mats from alchemy
I would be okay with a house for your main and apartments for the alts. meaning, i want to put the lion’s share of work into my main’s house— get him all the decor, set him up with all the fancy-fancy. alts I would probably decorate by theme (be it race or class).
Or even an account-wide house.
But what I must have is full decorating ability. I wanna put things where I want. Plenty of options. Don’t skimp on them rugs and furniture, blizz! Load me up with all them Hordie spikes!
I feel like the drought would have little to do with housing. They added garrisons and apparently there was still plenty to do. Personally I would like to know that houses are not a “factor” in progression.
I feel pretty confident that they will add a cashshop only piece of furniture that allows access to the auction house. Seems very on brand for blizzard