It’s much easier to build something from scratch to do something, then to retro-fit that same thing into a 20+ year old codebase that was in no way designed with that feature in mind.
At this point it’s likely not even so much that they can’t, or even whether or not they want to, it’s a weighing of dev time against other elements of pretty much Blizzard’s golden goose.
Yes, that means things like engagement-minded changes take precedence over silly but annoying things like “hats with hair” or the absence of player housing.
I’d bet a million dollars, especially with the new guard, that they would love to add housing, but WoW is just too important monetarily to deviate from an almost (and maybe actual, literal) fiduciary duty to make the money-printing machine print more money. Indeed, that bet of a million dollars may actually be closer to the mark when making these decisions.
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Yea that can be the case, but doesnt mean they cant. Just simply they dont want to spend the money and it turn out that no one uses the feature. I get it. I am sure if they added it there would be a number of threads pop up in the forums less then a week later with people complaining that the towns are empty and “the game is dying”.
That said, honestly much of the code used for Garisons and Class Order Halls could easily be used to at least add Guild Halls. Simple instanced zones for guild mates to goof off in and socialize, which could be customized and expanded to add crafting related stuff or post statues for guild and raid achievements. This they can do, simply because they already did it with Garisons.
Always the ones that don’t even play and pay just to post on the forums saying this lol
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Ok, if Player housing is a waste of time because such a small portion of the population of wow players will use it and to develop it will cost a raid tier. Then why do we even have Mythic dungeons and raids? An even smaller population can even compete at the highest end and that to me is a waste of resources that could be used to develop more content or QoL improvements in other areas.
Allied races came out after Legion.
Now once again.
All I was saying is how racials are an aspect of the devs clearly giving a focus to the Alliance and (to me) shows they have been made a priority on some level other than “low”.
The only one I know off hand is EverQuest. They also subsidized their housing design by giving a way for players to design things that meet certain technical requirements, approved by EQ devs, then placed in the store.
Within the context of how much smaller EQ’s budget is, it was a really genius idea. All they really did was create a system where you can place things. Then pushed the development of many of those things on to the players.
The reason is a lot of the players don’t care about player housing. Garrisons were a test run of it. Unless there is a power gain from housing, it will be dead content in a month or two. If there is power gain then it’s another mandatory activity for players to do. Neither of those would be a good way to spend resources for Blizzard. If you want a house, go play Final Fantasy or RuneScape.
They’ve said a number of times that it’s not that they can’t do it, they can’t do it with the level of quality they’d want to deliver. Too many things that people would expect wouldn’t work the same way because of how this engine is built.
And changing someone that low on the stack is super expensive and expansive. Come on, an evergreen, non-power feature they can monetize to hell and back? Yeah, if it was even remotely feasible it would already exist.
You’ve never played a good housing type game. Wildstar probably had the best system as far as I’m concerned. Palia is promising, but they have to add an in game way of attaining clothing for me to want to play it.
Palia would be more of the way Bliz could have implemented it.
Lol wut? FF14 has objectively more content than WoW.
Ha. I got restored. Mad?
If I recall right; dance studio was marketed with wrat
h and just went poof.
You’re right. They don’t owe anyone dialogue. They’re allowed to just be silent. It’s not, however, okay to lie. It’s just as you say - they’re not forced to speak on it at all. Therefore, if the truth sounds bad they can just not say it. If they decide to lie to make themselves look good, that’s blameworthy.
And how popular are they now?
Logical fallacy. They aren’t less popular because they did housing…
Its said how people try to flag something that isn’t trolling, isn’t against any rules and then when it doesn’t work they try again…and fail. 
They view Garrisons as their attempt at housing, its as foolish as not just giving Alliance High Elves.
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Garrisons were never housing really?
It was dead before the garrisons. Stuff like CRZ and the “looking for” menus killed that. Those menus pretty much removed any reason to be in a guild.
Garrisons didn’t ruin professions, Blizzard did. You’re acting like one must follow the other. Other games have player housing that have zero profession features.
I feel the same way and I don’t believe the lie about the game engine.
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You can’t prove it’s a lie, though. Yet you seem to be wanting to base arguments intending to convince others to your way of thinking based on the opinion they lied about the game engine.