A lot actually, new stuff for crafters to make (heck even could get a new profession out of it too), new achievements, getting non-raiders and non-pvpers more things to do, etc. As for your concerns of “taking away future content” what content? In terms of content all we have is Dungeons, Raids, Battle Grounds or Arena and their hasn’t been a new BG in quiet a while. Mean while Casual players have virtually nothing to do, and have gained nothing substantial in a very long time.
Depends on the game, but most commonly in games it is used as a crafting station/bank/ player stores, all of which has no use in this game. Best we got, or will get is the garrison system which I still beleive was a good idea.
I mean, after you level up your companion pets to level 25, why get more pets, right?
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What is raiding good for?
What is PvP good for?
What is M+ good for?
What is RP good for?
What is World of Warcraft good for?
What is an MMO good for?
See where I’m going with this?
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OP it’s something called Evergreen Content.
While housing isn’t tied to player power (neither is TMOG, Mounts, or Companion pets), it will give something to do between content droughts.
And I know people in games who are ‘interior decorators’ for games with housing in them, and they make as much if not more than people who game the AH.
Housing lets us feel like we have an impact on the world; while yes it’s most likely going to be instanced, we can’t gain more furniture merely sitting around our house.
It can be tied to questing, raids, mythic+, even PVP. You can gain items that drop just like gear in raid; companion pets and mounts drop from some raids why not housing items that can be sold on the AH for huge money.
And with the new professions thing coming in Dragonflight, people could make decor and furniture and get the mats all set up; would help the professions actually MEAN something and Archaeology could have some neat stuff too!
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ABSOLUTELY NOTHIN!
Good god yall
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3 words.
Casual player content.
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I’d have a shrine to my deity and/or loa of choice to sacrifice to, so I can gain their favour and powers.
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In Ultima Online, my house was essentially my anchor in the world for all the years I played. It was my logout spot and decorating it was the core motivation of my endgame. It was my inn, my mission table and my auction house rolled into one.
WoW is not the same kind of game though. Expansions are much more like separate chapters and the anchor point has changed each expansion to follow the content.
I feel a little frustration towards the “that’s not housing! I hate it!” reaction garrisons got because I think we’d actually have something pretty close to customizable housing now, three expansions later, if people had instead embraced it as a first step and encouraged Blizzard keep iterating on the concept of personal spaces.
It’s a thing to do that’s not Raiding/Mythics. You know how sometimes you grind out old content to get that one piece of transmog you want? Or spend months farming for that one mount in an old raid?
That’s basically it, I spend an embarrasingly emount of time in my FFXIV apartment and ESO houses just looking for new furniture, changing stuff around , decorating, farming new furniture styles.
It’s really something for casual players who don’t like raiding or mythis to do. Which I honestly don’t which is why I really haven’t subscribed much in BFA or Shadowlands.
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The same thing that transmog is good for. Player housing is basically transmog for a tiny corner of the world.
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I’ve never cared about housing in any MMO I’ve played but people seem to love it so if they can do it then why not.
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Collect and decorate more things. Craft and sell things to other people. Some have guild features.
It doesn’t need a bank. It also doesn’t need to have the focus of content in it. It can be an off to the side venture. Something optional.
If people want to know what housing is like, play games that have it.
They said it’d take a lot of resources so we likely aren’t getting it anyway. At least not for a number of years.
Because it’s something fun to do in a video game?
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Even if they do introduce player housing, I will most likely retain the Murder Hobo status because I will most likely not engage in it. Maybe let me have a tent or cardboard box to set up outside of all the fancy houses people build lmao 
I do hope they implement player housing though, anything to make the players happy is a good thing. Just not my cup of tea for sure. Would be funny to make little murder hobo camps outside of these big nice housing areas people make though.
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Re trolling/post history: Lol if you say so champ
Do i agree with most posts probably not. Disagreement isnt trolling
And yes there are things i dont understand. Which i will then comment on to have a discussion to better understand. If you want to assume i do understand thats your prerogative i guess tho.
I dont do pets either. I like my yogg tentacle that tells me ill die alone but other pets are meh. I should try and sell em lol
forcing people to log in every 30 days on FFXIV, I hear your house is forfeit if you don’t use it for so long.
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I feel like when you’re at a point where you yourself are saying you wouldn’t hang out at your house, but yet you want to spend your time collecting new items for a house just to have something to collect… you probably need to admit you have a problem.
I feel like, when you’re a collecting and you want more things to collect because it’s what you enjoy doing then you don’t have a problem.
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