Imagine being able to buy a house in Grizzly Hills, Elwynn Forest, Stormpeaks or Nagrand. Imagine being able to customize it with many cosmetics things like furniture, maybe mannequins to hold your favorite transmogs and trophies from bosses you have defeated or achievements you have earned.
Developers need to quit the idea that Garrisons were anything like housing. Garrison was a WOD feature, proper housing is a CORE game feature. It is not something you just do one expansion and abandon it, it is something that has to be integrated into the core of the game like Mythic+ was back in Legion.
As time goes on, you can add to it, keep it simple and cosmetic and donât over complicate it. See how transmog evolved from Cataclysm version, it is so much better now and it is still being iterated until this day, 9.1 even brings new shoulders feature.
because itâs not something that increases your time played to fulfill a subscription, itâs just something passionate and cool to add to a video game that is in many other mmoâs
It could increase game time. How do you earn new tiers of your housing, how do you buy decorations to it. Play the game, they can create a reward structure to consume time.
When will players accept that no âstart simple, add it to over timeâ housing feature will work for what they actually want. Blizzard would make it as bad as garrisons, and those players who want housing would just have one more thing to complain about for the rest of their days.
It is a very cool and appealing idea, Iâd love to see it myself, but itâs an enormous job. I think players tend to underestimate the sheer amount of work that true housing would require to be done well. Which is effort that could be spent on the rest of the game.
And for housing to succeed it has to be a completely optional cosmetic feature thatâs not tied to the current expansionâs stuff. It canât feel mandatory in any way. Which is again less reason for them to do it when there are higher things that require their attention.
I wouldnât think itâs never off the table, who knows what may or may not happen in the future. But we can see why it hasnât been a priority for Blizz.
Itâs far too niche. I personally have absolutely zero interest in player housing. Never have. And Iâm just one player, but if you took a poll I think youâd find housing isnât the big ticket item itâs made out to be.
I see your point. I think Ion himself has mention there is a list of priorities they have to get through before making any more content. I just think housing will be a worth priority they can work on.
I think this game needs to be more innovative. Things like Torghast are just not innovative enough to keep the game fresh.
Player housing thatâs not confined to designated spaces is actually awful. Plain, simple, easy to understand, it would be bad for the game. Iâm sorry I donât wanna see the landscape littered with dumb houses. The only real solution to player housing that would work is allow entrances to unused buildings in cities have portal-entrances that you could purchase and enter into instances. That way you donât clutter up the games landscape with someoneâs stupid house.
This is what I envision Blizz doing if housing was added It would just be some place in Org/SW that is instanced youâd run into, everyone would have their own instance but itâs all the same place.
Ideaâs of buying plots of land and then building a house up liiiike in Ark or any of those kinds of games I donât see ever happening.
Thank you for this. I feel this has been and still is their answer ever since, and this is where I get irritated with the current lead developer. I strongly believe they are mismanaging their resources, wasting development time on game systems build upon game system instead of flushing out actual tangible content.
In the current game we have 4 covenant, each with an ability for every class, each with general and spec specific soulbinds. Imagine how much developement goes into these systems to try to keep them âbalanceâ with each other, all for nothing because as data has shown, people go with whatever is the meta for their class.
So they have wasted all this time to create a balance so that people can have a âmeaningfulâ choice, but in the end people choose whatever their guide tells them is the best. What is even the point.
The best part about it being instances is you could make it into a guild-hall or just your own specific place to decorate. You could also easily incorporate different sized and priced housing. It would be a mega gold dump for those with insane amounts of gold. It would be garrisons 2.0 but inside of actual major city hubs, it would have more more permanence.
The problem is this is also Blizzard. A company who makes systems then lets them die when new expansion hits. Their problem with committing to ideas instead of dropping them cold worries me with big features like this.
It would just be some place in Org/SW that is instanced youâd run into, everyone would have their own instance but itâs all the same place.