I get that the community wanted player housing for many years and we are finally getting it. The excitement I saw when they announced it was absolutely insane, which is good.
However, the reason why I feel it won’t work is too many people have their perfect vision of what player housing needs to be and if blizzard doesn’t deliver to their every single tiny expectation people are going to riot. It’s just how this community is.
It’s an impossible task for blizzard to accomplish. Trying to please the most amount of people with this giant feature that so many have asked for. People want their perfect house with the ability to do everything imaginable and it’s just not going to happen.
If people let that stop them from trying new things the world would be stagnant. Someone will not like the player housing, they will make a stink of it.
Once they are done ranting, they will log into their new player house and work on grinding out a cool decoration.
SWTOR ESO and GW2 have all had pretty successful player housing, I imagine Blizzard is probably stealing how it works from one of those or a combination of all 3, it’ll be fine.
Yeah, player housing hasnt changed much across the MMOs that have done it, I dont know how FF14s works since I havent played that game, but SWTOR was neat and ESO was basically the same but allowed more QoL like adding the crafting stations to your house. I dont see it straying from the already common housing in other MMOs
Sometimes I feel like people want WoW to become just a dungeon-crawler where you keep repeating the same dungeons non-stop. Those people seem to be against any addition, feature or content that goes beyond that.
No world, no RPG, no leveling, no immersion, nothing. Just the endless dungeon grind.
I knew someone who thought Transmog was the death of WoW, because (and these were his words): “Those dirty roleplayers wanna look cool without earning it; if everyone can change the look of their armor, how do I know if they’re a good raider or a threat in PVP without an ancillary glance?”
As long as Blizz doesn’t tie the feature to shop items, or make having a house ‘required content’ for progression in any way. It wouldn’t be surprising if they do, unfortunately.
If you think Blizzard can copy and paste what MMO’s ten years younger than WoW can do on its ancient, decrepit engine, your expectations are astronomical–mythical even.