because a lot of us are tired of being homeless murder hobo’s?
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You think common sense is real these days?
Of course!
But a house always existed solely to throw all my stuff in the nearest barrel and leave.
Those merchants can never afford all of my things lol
Again I’m not saying it’s a bad thing to want it. I’m more just surprised how wanted it was by the community is all.
People cannot afford a house IRL so at least they can get on one a video game.
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But you said:
So did you spend the entire game of Skyrim inside your house?
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Oh yeah, so you open up your TRP and at title you put ‘Grand Marshal of the Alliance - (Leader of your class hall)’. Then fill your about with describing your legendary gear. You also get bonus points for your 22 year old being a veteran of the First War. c:
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At least for me, having a house to return to gives me greater reason to go out and adventure. It lets me bring something back from those adventures - furniture, souvenirs. It makes me want to go out looking for things to decorate my home with.
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I don’t think it was intentional, and I suppose that is the beauty of it, but the irony here really spoke to me.
Through the very thick and high walls of my house.
Since the Executive Producer of WoW currently is Holly Longdale, and she was the executive producer of EQ/EQ2, which invented the “best” player housing system to date. I am going to use EQ2 as a reference.
In EQ2, the normal houses you get by playing the game are AMAZING.
The “Premium” options are literal full dungeons, and full zones, as well as a few Raid Instances. Absolute Overkill. I personally bought a Pirate Ship with Dynamic weather, decorated with GIANT Skeleton guards and a Pirate Troll staff, a casino, a zoo, my amazing huge captains bedroom, a crafting room, library, monster trophy room, and also a special torture room.
Oh, and I had salesmans crates which let me put items on the broker (auction house) from my own home instead of going to the auction house, as well as all sorts of other crates, which were essentially tradeskill bank stashes, quest item stashes, crafted item stashes (for if you craft a bunch of stuff to sell but don’t want to just list it all on the auction house at once).
I got everything free because of how you get 500 free store credits every month for being a subscriber, but I imagine if I was a new player forking over cash for everything it would be less than 10 bucks total.
I just don’t see them price gouging for a feature that “most” players will essentially find useless. It will effectively just be another chore to dump your “furniture” in, like another bank slot for furniture that you loot.
Also, before I bought the pirate ship, I paid a montly “rent” for a “large house” in a city called gorowyn, which was already a HUGE house to begin with.
A small amount of the population will actually take the time to really dig deep and make crazy awesome houses, and be invested enough to actually consider buying the premium stuff, so it will be priced accordingly. Most likely on the cheaper side. I would say premium houses wont cost more than 20 bucks each, but I would say closer to 10, unless it’s a really amazing house with bonus features like a built in bank and teleport room or something.
They might even not do that, since it is going to be an expansion feature after all.
The biggest thing about housing is collecting the furniture to decorate it. Then, the next thing about it is decorating your house to be cool looking. Then finally a very niche part of the community will go above and beyond to create absolute thematic masterpieces, that will blow your mind (depending on the level of customization allowed). Stuff you would never think of, like waterfalls of gold coins and secret rooms, haunted houses with actual jump scares, etc.
Like I said, if it’s like it was in EQ2, most people will not care much about it after a while. It will be cool at first, and as time goes on and you accumulate a huge hoard of piled up items, you might tidy things up here and there. Whereas some people will make it their entire focus in the game, to collect items and make cool houses.
It’s basically just a new achievement system, except now the achievements are literal trophies sitting in your house, and most likely no one else will ever see them, unless Blizzard somehow creates a reason for people to visit your house in the housing system.
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Well a big thing WoW hasn’t really capitalised on is player interaction in a non-‘kill thing’ kinda way.
In FFXIV there are times me and my guild (called free company there) will just chill in each other’s house ingame. Housing gives a sort of expression of this.
It’s super popular and having made an apartment myself I’ve found it pretty fun.
Our Catch-up by the fireplace:
https://i.ibb.co/pQ4FP0T/ffxiv-23062024-121857-629.png
(Darn I have lost T3 again)
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I don’t really care either but people want to play house and decorate their house with trophies. People can’t fathom why anyone would grind for a mount they’ll never use so wanting to decorate a house shouldn’t be a stretch.
I honestly think the house is gonna be like Lotro’s design. You just decorate the walls and floor and have predetermined spots for trophies and that’s about it.
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I expect a house to have display capabilities, for weapons, armor, and maybe even a bookcase to show off your Steamy Romance Novels (and other gray books). A trophy case would be an excellent idea. So would a refrigerator, for actual food products. At last a place to store my Pineapple Pizza.
And if you don’t want to empty cities, just don’t have any vendors in the housing. Logically (I know, what a word to use in WoW), there’s no reason to have vendors, or an AH, in your house anyway.
That would be super sadge. Basically a mini garrison, except minus all of the features, and only the little statue slots.
I don’t think they would bother at this point. People already hate garrisons. If they are going to do housing, with Holly Longdale at the helm, she is definitely going to be referencing what she did with EQ2 housing. She literally invented it.
EQ2 basically funded the entire company through mostly housing purchases for years, (until she invented Classic Everquest, which she got hired at Blizzard to head up Classic WoW after Classic EQ/EQ2 was such a MASSIVE success, at both companies.)
So there is a large amount of people who still play EQ2 to this very day, simply because of the housing system. Older people especially, mostly women, absolutely love that stuff. People we would consider casuals. The people follower dungeons and LFR were made for.
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This. It’s simple if you do not wanna do or enjoy the house thing you don’t have to do it. Same as a lot of us do not enjoy pvping or raiding. I do not question why they like it more power to em doesn’t effect me.
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its the collectors that forgot how bad WoD was with everyone AFK in their garrison that are stoked on this. will there be more customization with housing? probably, will we still see the same issues with a dead world like we did in WoD? 100%
We got garrisons, the problem there was you were basically stuck there for most of the expansion. It shows though that there could be individual housing. They just need to make it a gold sink that doesn’t affect the rest of the game. Like there should be no difference for those that choose or choose not to utilize player housing.
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The way I look at it, Player Housing (specifically the customizable kind) scratches the same itch as transmog… and arguably does it better.
Sure, you can just treat as a place to hang up and show off your trophies.
… but you can also turn the space into pretty much ANYTHING you want it to be.
Dance clubs, venues, theaters, quiet restaurants/cafes… and those are just the common ones.
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Because you spend so much time playing the game being on a mount that it’s nice to have options to use beyond basic ugly ones.
Although my excitement for it dies every time they flood a patch with mounts as a cheap way to keep people invested. Most of my enjoyment came from starting out in BC/Wrath when mounts stood out and having something different was really cool, so its mostly vestigial at this point.
But player housing isn’t out in the world. It’s a place for me to go and look at achievements? That’s the appeal?
i mean, remember garrisons?
I wouldn’t get your hopes up too high.
I hope they do it right and player housing is everything people want. but I am skeptical of their ability to do so.
People like customization. People want an additional layer of customization.
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