Do you have a link to this interview? I really hope they follow through with this being evergreen. Proper housing will keep me engaged for years (speaking only for myself) if Blizzard implements a solid system. Even Wildstar kept improving their housing over the game’s lifetime and it was amazing.
Here you go!
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Much appreciated!!!
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There should be gameplay associated with your house, it shouldn’t just be a thing you decorate and forget about.
Take SWTOR as an example of what not to do. There, people are more interested in using their strongholds as a cheap quick-travel option than actually hanging out in them.
Bringing back Wildstar (because it’s the GOTA) there were instances portal objects that players could put on their lots. So like you could take a portal from your lot to the raid. Or you could go to these 1 to 5 players mini dungeons from your house (literally what Delves are now). There were also minigames you could play to earn more decore assets and housing currency to buy decore off the vedors.
I don’t want it to be a connecting point for PvE and PvP. That said, I feel like connecting your home TO the content should come in the form of farming decorations and achievements the way we do for Mogs now. If there is a certain… couch, for example, and it comes in blue, green, red, and black, I think one should come from normal dungeons, one comes from a world drop, one comes from PvP, and one comes from end game content, and all 4 versions are Tradeable/sellable, and then also maybe offer entire sets on the Cash Shop where you can get the same items, keep the ones you like, and sell the rest on the AH. Make it so everything is available, but not “required”.
I am hesitant to turn it into a permanent squatting spot. Having anything more than a mailbox, and maybe a “Bank” chest, would leave players in their houses queuing for things while just shopping or teleporting. It is important to have something fully customizable, but the ability to do it ALL from the house would be the same downfall that strongholds suffered in SWTOR. You want people to still leave their homes and not be shut in recluses who are shopping on “Amazon” lol
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Last time I was on SWTOR the Fleets were still pretty active. But I do feel like the social boogeyman is going to effect what features are added or withheld. Personally, I don’t care. My enjoyment of the game is not based on the number of afk people I see idling around a mailbox/bank/auction house. But that’s just me.
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I think they just want to make sure the cities still feel full and hopefully Trade chat is not added to housing in an effort to prevent folks from just sitting and trolling all day the way they did in Garrisons.
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They need houses in multiple zones that we can buy with gold, a reasonable amount too not millions, and of various designs. Houses we can earn from questing. Apartments in capital cities.
Furnishings we can place anywhere. If there is a limit on furnishing numbers it needs to be significant because nothing makes you lose interest faster than filling up all housing slots quickly.
Trophy heads of all dungeon and raid bosses.
New profession, woodworking. Patterns added to all crafting professions. Patterns not locked behind a grind or paywall.
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I agree with all of this. NOTHING should gate housing, and NOTHING should be gated by housing. I want a simple 10 part quest to unlock/purchase, and get started buying and decorating.
I like this… Lemme answer, keeping in mind that I speak only for my human character, and not my Forsaken characters, or my orcs, or my night elves or my Eredar mage…
Apologies if I get carried away.
While I’d “settle” for an apartment with single-floor units resembling your average Stormwindian home with an open door and two-floor units resembling… oh, jeez, how the barbershop used to look before it was designated as such… I’d like a house, with size that varies based upon some quest-related and financial criteria, much like these hypothetical apartments, would be cool.
Do you want to decorate it?
** Yes, I like decorating*
Oh, my GOD, yes. Retail!Usvira’s would look very average, very charming…
My Mage, on the other hand, would have this sort of a Bilbo Baggins affair, with trophies from her past adventures on display…
On the note of trophies, it’d be really cool if, in addition to the usual PvE ones, such as, say, a Rare Mob or a Boss’ taxidermied remains or assets, you could have some from PvP victories. Kind of like how Isildur kept the One Ring after Sauron’s defeat. You get the Goblin mage guy’s travelling spell book as a display piece, and a bragging right. This would require a lot of work, though.
My Forsaken Warlock’s would just be kitsch, and, if you can have pets wander the place, cats. Everywhere. Straight meow-meow.
What will your house look like?
** I want it based on my character’s race*
** I want it based on the zone it is in*
I’m about 82.5% on the top option… though, if Usvira were to make her home in the Swamp of Sorrows, it could have not-dissimilar trappings to the locality. And, have a style influenced by local resources.
Everything should be grindable ingame, whether its a massive timesink/raredrop from a raid vs. buying it on the store. I think both options can coexist and if you want to pass the grind by spending money then more power to you. But absolutely everything should be attainable by choosing to play the game.
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So long as most of the stuff can be crafted or acquired through gameplay I won’t mind.
If there are districts I’d say the only condition a house should be removed is if the player sub is inactive for more than a month with their decor and stuff put in storage. I like the ffxiv housing but the economy involved with it killed my interest.
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I agree. That’s why I recommended how Star Wars has it set up. It can either drop in the open world, or you can buy it on their auction house, which is the galactic trading network, you can purchase it with real money from the cartel market or because of your subscription, you can save up cartel coins, kind of like traders, tender, and buy it from the cartel market for free. And then there are more decorations that actually drop from flashpoint and operations, which are essentially raids and dungeons.
I don’t think a players house should have any effect on it and the way I see it short of it being in a neighborhood is almost like a Garrison where when you walk up to it your house looks a lot like someone else’s house except it phases about 300 yards from the house that way you don’t just have 4000 strangers standing in front of your front door. The same way worked in Chatham Moon Valley where everybody disappeared about 300 feet from the front gate, but at no point in time should anybody’s house ever be sold or demolished unless the user specifically request to have their account deleted.
Demon hunter had a display of your glaive unlocks, but i didn’t play enough other classes during legion to check.
i’m sure we’ll get a weapons rack of some sort and maybe a little glass case for a glowing wand for the mage or something like that
Two things really.
- More than just Orgrimmar and Stormwind. Let the houses be in any city. Ideally you would have an estate in your race’s starting zone (or any starting zone you’re exalted with, just go to Eitrigg/Rokhan/Baine/Sylvanas/Lor’themar/etc). I’m tired of the over-reliance on Orgrimmar and Stormwind as the only cities that matter.
- Connected to the above, put the missing amenities into the other cities. It’s completely ridiculous that Transmog has been in the game for 12 years and they still haven’t put a transmog NPC in the Undercity.
i just want a personal ST dummy and cleave dummy in housing, please blizz, and make FPS top priority in 11.1 raids, no more FPS insane dips like nerub