Yeah I’ll believe that when the nature of
letting players live next to each other, work together, and share in the rewards of being part of the Neighborhood
is. If the past says anything, it’s that Blizzard loves to put player power behind anything that took them a while to do.
I’m surprised anyone thought it would be anything other then instanced housing with a hook placement system
Many (most) poh in mmo are hook based. I’m personally only knowledgeable in one free placement, FF14, but please if there’s anything you don’t want to copy from FF, it’s their housing system.
Did you not read the other several threads about why non instanced housing wasn’t going to work?
With the amount of players there are, it would ruin questing zones with the amount of houses that would be scattered around. Not to mention the challenges associated with allowing people to just put houses out in the world.
Ultima Online had a few hundred players tops, huge empty worlds with nothing in them, and houses could be destroyed if not maintained. Big difference.
People who think non instance housing would work, in a game with Millions of players, are legit delusional.
So just git rid of sharding then they literally have 30+ servers that r just straight dead or havent been active since cataclysm
Not a single spot of azeroth would be left if it was open world, not to mention everyones FPS would absolutely tank loading in everything.
Bad information?
Even the FFXIV player base hate their version of housing because of how awful non instance housing is. Top post on reddit is FFXIV players meming on their own housing system after blizzard took a dump on them.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/1iiz0ym/a_few_shots_fired_from_blizzard_regarding_housing/
Imagine having such a bad housing system, that your players actually praise other devs for insulting it.
Anyone thinking they were gonna add no-instance Housing is just fooling themselves.
It takes like 2 seconds of thinking to know why this would never, EVER work.
They hate the scarcity of it. Assuming they swapped to an instanced version, they’d complain about how soulless it was, or how they miss the neighborhood feel, if it was talked about at all.
They DO have an instanced variant, it’s the apartment system, which barely gets talked about. Or more recently, your own private instanced island that you can customize and invite friends to come see. Both are basically dead content that no one cares about though.
Harsh reality is that the scarcity of in-game housing, is both the problem with non-instanced housing, and also the main reason most people want it.
There really not enuf houses for like 50k players on some servers lol . how is this even a question
Maybe in WoW 2 they’ll increase the size of the world 1000x and there will be enough space for non-instanced housing.
But you’ll be able to with how it is being implemented?
I mean, did you really think that you’d just be able to pick a spot in any random zone to place your house?
Most of us don’t care about the neighborhoods either to be honest, because they are mostly dead.
There are a few good ones certainly, and I think it’s a cool option to add, but I really hope blizzard will open up on the idea of also ESO style housing. Can keep some social events in the neighborhoods, that non-home owners of that neighborhood can partake in too (to add more activity even to those not present in those spaces).
For those who seek it out actively it can be cool, for others if it’s the only option it ultimately will just be a disappointing end to potential creative spaces (as you have to settle for limited locations, specific slots, and dead neighbors that are not doing a anything).
It’s Blizzard. What did you expect?
Every new feature should always be met with harsh skepticism and lowest expectations. Do that and you’ll never be dissapointed.
If they let you wrap your house in a murloc onesie you know there would be people that would do it just to be an eyesore.
One of the worst parts is that at some point players are keeping subbed so they don’t lose their house. It’s pretty smart by square actually to keep people subbed. Moment the sub lapses their house goes on the market and they lose it.
You could have a portal to visit someone’s house. Upon clicking the portal it will prompt you for a name and realm.
Wouldn’t that mean they should merge servers, not remove sharding?