SWTOR is heavily monetized… and I dislike it greatly.
You know the wow team is big? And he isn’t the only shot caller? He’s just one with the thickest skin to put himself out there so others don’t get bothered with messages like this 
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Ghost crawler also got the same treatment because he chose to be vocal with the community too.
Everything has a pipeline, and changes have to get confirmed by every team specialist it affects. They go over this in a more recent dev blog about adding new pet demon customizations.
The biggest part of game development and the first thing you learn early on, communication. Its a huge factor on a games success.
When you apply for studios a good one will look at you as a person and if you’re a good fit for this teams dynamic, then the quality of your work on your portfolio, and how good your communication skills are.
It’s very unrealistic to pin every choice you dislike on one guy, it’s a team effort.
Dungeons and professions are also majority playstyles.
That aside, Blizz will have the best metrics on which demographic is most likely to spend their cash on activities outside of power progression. Considering there’s been no movement on player housing for years we can be fairly confident this demographic isn’t it.
The other goal Blizz will have in mind will be to draw more people to the game to increase the size of the playerbase. Housing doesn’t do much on that front. If it did Wildstar would still be alive.
If I can’t have a pastel pink interior I don’t want it.
Here you go, OP.
I speculate there is movement happening right now on housing, it’s just not ready to announce any plans. It is a huge feature that would take a lot of prep work to implement, and a big part of that would be having a place to put the housing.
So they would reclaim and rebuild some capitals, do the back end work for infrastructure in phases with stuff like Warbands, and then when the feature is ready to be fully implemented, it gets announced at a Blizzcon and tacked onto an expansion preorder.
Garrisons were bad because of their mandatory nature, and the fact they visibly ate a lot of content out of the expansion. They were also very much not housing, with extremely limited choices to do any sort of decorating and nowhere near the other players in the world.
An ideal housing system is phased, but done in neighborhoods and not per plot. WoW’s phasing tech can instantly upstage FFXIV in this regard by integrating housing directly into the world without having it completely take over the cities they put it in.
You guys seem to forget that player housing was attempted with garrisons and was a failure. Read the thread.
oh wow OP, you finally did what the rest of us couldn’t…you finally figured out the perfect way to speak Blizz language about WHY player housing is a good thing.
maybe now we’ll finally get it as a feature…and if we do get it, now we know why, thanks to this post.
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At this point I’m positive they have been working on player housing, and it’s not “IF” we get it but “when.” The technical limitations of the ancient game engine have probably been the worst roadblock. If they’re going to do it they want to do it right. Player housing would touch every element of the game. Spaces and instancing has to be created for it, art assets have to be adapted or created, itemization has to be placed in new and old content, crafting systems are affected, loot tables are affected. It’s a LOT of work.
We have a player house, it’s called the garrison.
Players hated it so we didn’t get a new one.
Don’t care for player house, unless it cuts in other content. And it will. So I don’t want it.
From my perspective dozens of raids have cost me a building tier 
But this thread isn’t really so much about my desire for housing as me speculating on why it is on the table regardless of how we may feel about it.
Player housing will come but it’s going to be a gacha game.
Be careful what you wish for.
The “when” is probably going to be “never”. If they want to launch player housing, I would only imagine they would release this at the end of WoW’s lifespan.
We will see the end of WoW’s lifespan if and only if the following occurs: There will either be a WoW 2, or the game is dead. I would think a WoW 2 would come first. But… it would also be meaningless.
It’s not on the table though…
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Yes. And if player housing were to become mandatory, we now have a WoD 2.0. Which most of the clientele will dislike. Me personally will dislike it too because its recycled content. Very boring.
If you read the thread, and player housing ISN’T mandatory, then it will be nothing more than a RP feature.
I very much oppose mandatory housing. And yes, it’s an RP feature. Housing isn’t meant to be for everyone, and not even a majority. The feature is for those who would want it. Will enough want it for it to be implemented? I think yes, eventually.
Truly we can’t say for certain either way what their plans are. I’m simply remarking on signs I see which lead me to believe the groundwork is being laid at the moment. I could be wrong, or plans may change even if they’re working towards it.
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Most of the individuals who sought this feature is people here on the forums. And we’re a small minority.
The developers would have to take a huge risk and come up with player housing out of nowhere and hope that it doesn’t make some wallet money disappear. There is absolutely no telling what the majority of people want in-game because WoW is so popular by the thousands.
- Saying this, I would want to believe (huge wild guess) that the majority of WoW gamers want an actual and compelling story. But even I’m asking for too much.
But here. On a graceful note, I’m not saying it won’t happen. Rather, its very, very hard.
According to these forums, player housing would be incredibly popular (I don’t believe it but neither here nor there) so why oh why would they not straight up announce it’s coming if it’s on the table?
Looking over developer comments, it’s less about their desire to do it or a belief it wouldn’t be popular enough and more about the resources required to make it happen over multiple expansions and what they have to sacrifice.
They want to do the feature RIGHT or not do it at all. Which I firmly support.
Hype building. If it ever was a firm plan, it’s getting announced at a Blizzcon as a key expansion feature.