Basically a virtual game of doll house.
Nothing wrong with that. Its another way for players to express themselves in the game.
but where are these homes gonna be located? in a specific zone for houses only? sorry im confused
As if games don’t copy one another all the time, you think no one has copied WOW? Lol or are we just ignoring that?
eq2 still has my favorite housing in any game i have ever played.
i love my halas house that i put a teleporter to the docks on with my own ship
i love my thurgadin grand hall with a casino, a waterfall shower, an office with piles of gold, a refrigerator, a casino, and elevated rooms, and another ship floating in a raised platform of water
each house took months to decorate.
would love to have tradeskills used to make decorations/items in your house too like in EQ2
They 100% are gonna do that. Calling it now. WOW is gonna go f2p and the cash shop will rival eso.
The best thing about playerhousing, is that by design it is already a time sink, so realistically they won’t have to try and make it a grind by their usual Modus Operandi of attaching reps and other months long grinds to it.
But if they really wanted to not have it detract from the legacy content and world, they could tie it to that via staggered release of furniture items over time in said content, making it both relevant and a plus to the engagement metrics simultaneously.
They could also use it to revamp most professions, including Archeology ala profession furniture.
I gotchu (15 hours late)
EDIT: As for housing itself. Imo it’s like the perfect time sink for a certain type of player.
Speaking from personal experience, I went through absolute hell trying to get my house in 14 to look exactly as I wanted it, and it took months of getting gil (because I’m very very lazy and get gil passively) buying the right items and then figuring out how to put it in the house properly. Was right fun when I finally got everything and it gave me something to do that wasn’t just running dungeons all the time.
So depending on how WoW wants to do it, it could give players a goal to work towards that isn’t just higher item level or a new mount to the collection.
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I think goals like that are super important, especially cause it attracts people that aren’t necessarily ‘push buttons fast for big number’ types.
I was having a conversation the other day about if WoW had kinda gone for the rounded content type approach early on with smarter sharding/layering (player selection the way FFXIV does). It would have an even bigger following most likely.
It’s world of Warcraft, War is in the name you simp.
Lmao looks wack tbh
Let people have fun with their Barbie doll house 
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Okay and, what kind of high ranking general doesn’t have their own private home? None of them, the military even gives them free homes and food and uniforms.
It’s kinda whack that you’re supreme commander/CHAMPION/GODKILLER and the Alliance and or Horde can’t even furnish you your own pad as the rank more than deems necessary.
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I mean…'kay?
Collecting crap for your house, just like toys and transmog. More crap to do in game.
WoW is an RPG more than it is an MMO. Sure, you can see lots of people… but at the end of the day, YOU are playing your game, your way. In a true RPG, you take on your character just like Star Wars: the Old Republic or FF:XIV. In both of these games, they have player housing.
WoW players, like myself, who are into RolePlay realms, and heavy Lore love feeling like we are a part of the world, and not just playing some silly game. Player housing is the long missing key for many of us. A real RolePlayer doesn’t just log out wherever they happen to be. We take great care to hearth to a city, or find an innkeeper. In 19 years, I have never just logged out “anywhere”. I find home and head that way.
Now, for the first time ever, my character can come HOME. Not just a city, or a tavern, or an Inn. Not some other worldly Garrison loaded with NPCs. Actual home, surrounded by personal effects and mementos of my adventures. A place where I can walk in, close the door, and be left completely alone, or share that space with friends to serve tea and RolePlay. For the first time ever, I can sit in my chair, in my living room, by my fire, and read a book.
Some people won’t get it cause WoW is just PvE progression or PvP excitement. But to a great many of us, this is the missing element we’ve desperately longed for. A place to call home in our RolePlay game. Something simple, charming, private… and all ours. If you know, you know, and if you don’t… then I sincerely feel sorry for you and hope that clarity and feeling find you someday. Coming home… there is no feeling like it in the world.
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It’s a way for millennials and younger to enjoy the fantasy of owning their own house.
That and for completionists to have another carrot to chase in the form of collectibles.
which in this particular game is 90% of what keeps me playing
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What kind of collector are you when you don’t have a home to show your collection? Fake collector for sure.
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man…SOOOO cool if the put in a trophy room/den where we can hang heads of bosses we’ve killed…and I mean all the way back to Hogger, lol
I see the appeal greatly as an RPer, and general collector and customization enthusiast. It’s nice to have a place to call your own