Yay! Instanced housing

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this way everyone can have a house

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Also, this is absolutely horrible in every game it’s ever implemented in. Player neighborhoods always look absolutely atrocious.

Plus instanced housing gives a lot of potential options for more reclusive houses, something a druid or hunter would live in.

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But they did announce a sort of always on war mode for housing where you can group up and sack/loot/destroy others housing and they can defend it for even greater rewards.

The chance I could lose everything in my house makes me want to defend it even more!

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Sounds like the housing wards in ff which is fine but minus the ff limited houses available

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Instanced housing will be a pain for Peeping Toms.

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i’m sure somebody will invite you. But you can’t just go wandering in and out of people‘s houses. I left Jeeves on guard mode with a Dwarven hand cannon just in case The horde showed up and tried to check out my house.

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i do not care for player housing at all but im glad people who want it are getting it.

the only thing i worry about is they are focusing on this instead of actually improving the game and players will eat this up and not remember how broken the game still is.

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Housing was always gonna be instanced. It’s literally the only feasible way to implement it into a game like wow. I have no idea who would legit think it wasn’t gonna be instanced. At least they’re not isolated instances though. So you’ll have your local neighbourhood to annoy if you want.

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Why wouldn’t it be instanced? It’s the only realy way they can get away with housing.

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Not gonna lie, a house carved out of a tree would be awesome. I love unorthodox architecture like that.

It could even be a dead tree that the druid’s presence is helping breathe life back into.

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and the eskimo peeping tom aka tommytookalook

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People who thought it would be THEIR version of housing, like some other games have with open world housing.

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Didn’t read the whole article, did you?

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He doesn’t do that, he just posts whatever random thing is on his mind at the time.

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That’s an understatement lol.

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Expectation: Idyllic WoW neighborhood with various races going about their day, pies cooling on the window sills, kids playing in the yards.

Reality: Straight out of Step Brothers with the Troll next door pushing his goblin lawnmower while wearing a “ghost” costume. “Howdy!”

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Please go and actually READ the article, then come back.

They clearly say " Houses are organized into roughly fifty plot Neighborhoods, letting players live next to each other, work together, and share in the rewards of being part of the Neighborhood. Neighborhoods are instanced but crucially also persistent so your neighbors can be your neighbors for years to come (or until one of you moves). Neighborhoods also come in two flavors:

  1. Public Neighborhoods, which the game servers are responsible for creating as needed and maintaining.
  2. Private Neighborhoods created by groups of friends or guilds to inhabit, progress, and customize together.

So, while an individual player can have a house, a community can have a Neighborhood!"

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I think you will see other peoples housing, unless I’m reading it wrong.

I believe it’s going to be 50 plots with 49 being random? Unless you’re in a guild/private and then the entire zone will be people you know.

Yeah, basically what Ayiden said.

That all being said, I’m not excited for an Orc house… I don’t like Org, I don’t like Orc houses… I’m Forsaken and I want to live the Forsaken existence… in the dirt waiting to pounce.

Also, we’re going to see some of the best customizations in the cash shop, which is sad, kinda… :frowning:

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Yep, player housing and all of its problems were understood as far back as Ultima online.

You let them build anywhere, and they’ll use the housing as a lever to abuse other players, and make the experience worse for everyone.

You have defined buildings that can be bought, less disruptive, but you’ll never have as much housing as players who want it.

You have instanced “housing”, and people realize it’s not that fun at all.

FF14 has close to the best implementation, where housing is in instanced neighborhoods that you explicitly travel to, instead of cluttering the open world. You have neighbors and randoms can see your house, but they still have the problem of not enough housing for everyone.

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Can we have Oprah throwing deeds at everyone?

“You get a house, you get a house, everyone gets a house!”

Should we make a portmanteau out of WoW and house and call it a Wowouse?