One of the advantages people have brought up for player housing is that it will let us revisit old cities, but that’s quite the opposite of what it will do.
Creating a player hub which would likely be instanced and cut off from the outside won’t bring people back into cities like Ironforge. Sure, you would be “in Ironforge” with the decorations and such, but you wouldn’t be in Ironforge.
The best way to revitalize old cities is to simply upgrade them and put incentives into visiting them beyond one or two vendors (ie heirloom vendors.)
Basically, with the time skip which is rumored for the next expansion, we just need to not end up in a patch island or expansion island like we have done so far, and to instead revisit old zones.
Edit: Clarifying this for those who have posted about it. Adding in housing will not make cities more empty then they already are, but that already empty cities will not be revitalized by player housing.
Player housing is good and should be added.
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WoW Classic took care of that anyways so lets just move forward and stop looking back.
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as much as I love that game, this isn’t a super great option because then you end up with limited space for houses and a lot of people get left out. unless they also had the option of instanced housing, but that would be more work. on a feature that it’s clear Blizzard doesn’t care about, at this point. sadly
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Just portals in each city to each city. No more of this going through SW or Org. That would allow people to choose what city to hang in with easy access to the content they want. Simple.
Any added stuff to the cities would be a nice bonus too. Like why does the tram only go from SW to IF? By now you think they could take you all over
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From what I understand, FFXIV limits the number of neighborhoods/housing available, right?
I don’t see why they can’t just… not do that.
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they could have special crafting equipment that would be needed for end game stuff, like Ironforge/Org could be Blacksmithing and engineering, Silvermoon could be enchanting and tailoring, Thunderbluff could be skinning/LW/cooking.
not sure how it’d hold up in the next expansion after it though.
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yeah they’d have to keep paying more and more money for server space, and considering how many more players there are in WoW than in 14 (usually), to have enough houses on each server for every player I’m sure they’d be shelling out the butt for it. they also have to severely limit how many furnishings you can have outside your house and how fancy they can be, since our PC/console has to load the entire neighborhood in each district
why not just post this in the other thread about reviving capital cities?
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As long as they don’t change how they look. I hate changes made to old areas, I still really enjoy visiting and playing through them.
I would like this too.
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Maybe it’s time for another Cataclysm - except this time instead of destroying the world, it would be about revitalizing it and you can do quests to help rebuild major cities like Gnomeregon, Undercity, etc…
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Housing will ruin this game, everyone will be sitting in their houses rather than being in the open world. Thus making the world feel dead. Horrible idea if you want the game world to actually have people in it and not just instanced into their housing
I don’t mind having my own floating Necropolis.
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I know right, everyone will be doing world quests, rare killing, world boss killing, and pvp inside their houses.
No to player housing!
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Yeah cause every player does those activities right? You add housing and oribos becomes a ghost town no reason to be there except to fly through when you going to the different zones. which would feel extremely awkward
100% agree, they should have some kind of dailys that lets the server donate to build special buildings with perks in citys to drum up community involvement and let all people see the changes that they worked for appear, all to promote basking in the accomplishments of your labors
Um, and? Why does the population count within Oribos matter in any sort of manner?
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Its almost like it’s this expansions hub where people are supposed to congregate… Add housing and it becomes a waste of time and resources from development
It’d only be like that if they tried to pull a garrison and make player housing a central game feature (which would be stupid). If it were implemented as the world-presence counterpart to transmog it’d act as a very strong carrot to get people to do things to customize their house (much as transmog multiplied old instance usage by 50x overnight).
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