Well that would depend. If there were things you could do in your house then sure, but you would have to go out to do questing, PvP, dungeons, raids, gathering materials, etc.
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Iâd actually like some of the aspects of garrisons being in our player housing areas, i say take the good stuff from garrisons and MoP farms, just allow the usability to evolve as we move from one expansion to the next (updated herb seeds/current ores/fish etc). I also liked that we could put certain things up on the wall, iâd love to be able to display old tier sets in those armor holding mannequin things, i can imagine a hallways leading to my bedroom lined with tier sets and cool weapons from many years of adventures 
The problem with WoW devs is they never know when to stop. The garrison had what many people wanted. Displays, decorations, some customisation, but by the end there was a freaking Shipyard! I mean, come on! We just wanted a place for our stuff, not a provincial capital.
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Not as long as Ion and Co are in charge, anything that isnât instanced content and canât be made into an eSports will never get a chance or any kind of meaningful development.
ion isnât mature enough to actually understand how to make the game better.
the douche kid still has a problem with people liking to fly in a FANTASY GAMEâŚ
he isnât smart enough to know what fantasy means and it shows in game.
I wouldnât be surprised if he was the 1 that nerfed the flying form for dracs because he has a weird problem with flyingâŚ
did someone kill you while you were doing something noob ion? maybe get gud next time?
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Yes, there will eventually be player housing.
WoW is probably going to live longer than usâit might take ten years, maybe twenty. But WoW will eventually have player housing.
Someone else mentioned we didnât get it after the harassment scandal and all the fallout of the destruction of lore from BFA â SL when they were their most desperate to please players by far in the entire gameâs existence.
The fact is itâs not something simple and quick like adding a few more customizations for player characters or porting them from one race to another which the art and relevant departments can get done in a few days. Itâs a major undertaking involving many systems and disciplines and a lot of troubleshooting.
Given that, short of Microsoft handing Blizzard a blank check for WoW dev and telling them to double the team sizes Iâd say weâll get an announcement for player housing 1 year before they announce that there will be no next expansion and development has been stopped, thanks for playing. So really never.
WoW has moved away from RPG elements. Even from the massively online elements with things like sharding and phasing. The world has in many ways become a glorified lobby for doing instanced content with time-consuming (and gating) filler content to give people something to grind for and to stretch out the instanced content such as M+ and raids. This is because the devs want this. They desire to develop for encounter design. Iâm sure there are art people who absolutely love doing open world areas and some who love doing quests but enough of the dev team and dev team leadership are big on the concept of WoWâs selling point being doing mythic+ and raiding that itâs also now reflected in much of the playerbase being here and staying here for that.
I sadly think most of the people who truly want housing have given up on WoW a while ago and moved onto other MMORPGâs that try harder to retain both the massive and the RPG elements and donât devote quite as many resources to instanced encounters (many of them being fairly formulaic and repetitive).
I hope not, hope blizzard doesnât cave.
I cast my vote against player housing.
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We probably will, but like anything else the issue is figuring out what people want from housing, and then figuring out what wouldnât be overpowering to give them. Because people want different things.
What I want to see: A customizable area, with storage space for gray items such as books that you want to display. a kitchen to cook in, a refrigerator to hold food, and trophy spots for items you want to put up on display. There might be a special crafting occupation to build furniture and stuff, akin to fishing/cooking, but would require all kinds of items from other primary professions. Maybe a closet for clothing, and maybe even some extra storage, but not as much as a bank.
What it would not have is vendors, and it might even be out of general and trade chat.
In other words, I slightly helpful thing to have, relatively simple to get, but could be customized if you want to play Thrallâs Dream House. But thatâs me. Other people want a lot more.
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i hope not
Maybe it could be like the Sims game. You could build the house like you wanted to and paint it or wall paper it like you wanted put furniture in that you liked windows and curtains etc.
I hope we do. I would stop playing two MMOs if WoW had a good player housing system.
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I hope so. It would be a great way to breath new life into professions and older content. People still go back to old raids like ICC and TK to farm Invincible and Aâlar. Could easily see lots of people going back for a chance to get things like The Frozen Throne as a furnishing.
Imagine all the new crafting recipes that could be added, as well.
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Before people say âGarrisons is houseingâ here is what the definition of a Garrison is.
Not character housing of any kind
Would like to have player houseing.
I donât think we will, but maybe
Friend of mine that got interested in playing MMOs because of me asked about player housing in WoW. I told them it doesnât have it. They then asked about in FFXIV. I told them it does but not enough due to them not being instanced so it is hard to get one. They then asked about GW2. I told them no, it has an instanced racial area but not true housing. They then asked about in ESO. I told them there are tons of instanced houses and theyâre easy to get and you can have them all if you wanted. They bought ESO. Just sayinâ Blizz.
And same with the now dead Wildstar.
Reaching much, Wildstarâs big issue was that it catered too much to the hardcore crowd which was such a small group it was always destined to fail.
Iâm not sure you could really consider Roblox to have player housing since itâs more of a platform than a game (basically, Roblox is more akin to Steam and Unity than it is to a game).
They could actually create this, using the garrison technology as a starting point. If you want them to start completely new and spend lots of money developing a new system of player housing just âbecause garrisonsâ, it will never happen.