DID YOU Want WoW Player Housing?
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WoW player housing is official and we will be able to get our hands on it once Midnight launches but, as always, wow housing raises a lot of concerns on how the feature will be implemented, what will you be able to do and how much power will be tied to it?
Overall, we are all in for a wow player housing system just as long as they don’t repeat the same mistakes they did with garrisons :)
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Have your alts walking around in your house
thats warband housing not player housing i dont want that let my warband have theres own house!
@ I have 12 alts. Too much maintenance alrdy. I’m good with all in one
Yeah.....and maybe FIXING the inability to mount up your monuments in your garrisons on Draenor. Oh well...........
And do some chores like 1 alt with cooking profession will cook etc XD
I fully agree, at least the 4 we set as favorites
I would like to see my other characters on my lot, walking around, chatting, sleeping, taking care of the mounts or pets.. tending the garden , making it a community
Same. That'd be so cute
so you want garrison 2.0 not player housing you want warband housing?
@@stevelamb9453 Itll still be player housing. Its not like its centered around being in your home like garrisons were. Just being able to see all your alts living there or walking around. Or make it so everyone stays to their own home.
@@stevelamb9453 why not both
THAT would be sick.
I truly wanted housing for WoW for a while. It really gives the more casual players more stuff to do, farm, work on. Not all must be big numbers in a game, someone can open a game to explore, mess around and just do some ingame activities that don't always need 100% concentration but those that are more chill and help you relax.
exactly.
True, definitely another way to enjoy the game!
Yeah........but why can't we FIX the inability to mount up our monuments in our garrisons on Draenor? Sigh.........
@@KingMickeyMouseOoO Maybe because its un ethical .
@@Radi-h4z Yeah......and if they won't do a darn thing for garrisons in WoW........guess how horrid it's going to be for the new "housing" project.
Is it only me but I really enjoyed the Halfhill farm (in the center of the Valley of the four winds) in Mists of Pandaria - that was actually their first try at phased player housing before they implemented the garrisons.
Elder Scrolls Online lets us build castles, piece by piece. That's what I want for WoW housing.
I need to be able to design my own layout. How big I want the bedrooms, the bedroom size, where the windows go, etc.
Agreed but don't hold your breath, it'll likely be a garrison-like instance with few placeable items.
That was my first thought, but WoW’s game engine is much older.. from 2004. I can’t see how that level of customization is possible
Yeah, when I saw the “upgrade” house option, I was like oh god. Okay.
Yes, but I dont want my house to look like Stormwind houses from 2004. I want my house to look like the house of the Hallowfall general and I want it to be big enough so that we can have a bunch of people over to visit.
True, uprez 100% has to happen!
House party after raid if you killed a new boss would be funny 😂
For me, I want Gilnean style for my Worgen, with roses and clothlines and all lol
LA studio apartment size only😢, one room, no hope, and it costs 100k gold a month for rent.
it probably wont be it will likely be kinda small maybe as large as like the in in goldshire
Other MMOs had instanced housing and you could allow people to visit. If you make plots for houses it will clutter zones and then not all could get housing
like Final Fantasy 14 xD
Not giving everyone housing is a good idea to keep the community healthy and engaged. It feels better when you do obtain a house and feel good for getting it and feel good for showing it off to your friends or guildies to hang out in because they might not have their own house. It provokes inspiration and a goal to work towards, rather than just giving everyone some easy to obtain thing and after a day or 2 you're basically bored of the feature because thay initial dopamine of obtaining it is gone, you barely put any effort into getting it, and your friends don't care about your house because they have their own that they stopped caring about because it was so easy to obtain.
@@sirpixelot7109 Yea not even close your deluded if you think so. People will be pissed if they pay for an xpac and have the main feature denied to them. Housing is the feature like leveling your character what should be "difficult" is making it look good and special.
@@maxpowers4436Guess I'm deluded then lmao
OSRS is the best example of Player Owned houses bdw
They should do it how Aion or Final Fantasy 14 did it. You go to a separate housing map. You can decorate, customize, people can go in and out if you leave it unlocked. All the plots are different, different houses, etc.
that sounds cool, i like the idea of clicking on your house instance, in eq2 you could open up a housing menu and port to the houses participating in the parade of homes, you can visit their house and vote on it, the top 10 win prizes every month so much fun! so much creativity!
I love this idea - and decorating will be so much fun like transmog gear....
right? some people think it's a waste of time but i think it's fun and isn't that the whole point we play games? some people really enjoy the creativity!
Wildstar had the BEST implementation of housing I’ve ever seen in any MMO. You had a choice of pre-built house models or building one from scratch. Some of the player creations were breathtaking. Someone made an at at walker from Star Wars and you could run around inside it. An extreme example but you get the idea. There’s a player base for this. They are smart to include them.
People would argue that's immersion breaking. Now one thing that will happen with that much customization is there will be a bunch of dick shaped houses, nobody is trying to see that. It may be funny the first two days but it will get tiring and become a eyesore.
Agree. Wildstar housing was Incredible. best housing in any game.
Rift housing is great too.
And wildstar was such a success it fkin flopped
@@Xynithos won't be an eyesore as long as they are in they are in their own instance which would be best because that way we can potentially have much bigger houses or even a palace eventually but if its a shared zone then it will be MUCH more limiting in what you can do.
In my opinion :
1) There is a great opportunity with Neighborhood within capitals :
- Easiest thing in the world to add : Ironforge, Gnomeregan, Exodar, Silvermoon -> The two first are inside a mountain and you can dig new places. For the last two, an update is required but the sky is the limit with all the new asset + time that had passed in game.
- There is enough space to work and plant a few neighborhood : Orgrimmar (top of the cliffs), Stormwind, Gilneas, Amirdrassil, Undercity, Bilgewater Port (This is the closest things Bilgewater Goblins have to a capital)
- Those who are tricky : Thunderbluff (clearly need a revamp to be more majestic, come on Blizzard !), the Echo Isles (limited space and troll architecture might not be for everyone)
With a little programming, allowing you to "choose" your neighbors or skip "strange" decorated house, a guild could make a headquarter.
(I skip the Pandaren/Drachtyr/allies races because their situation are too varied, with some who have capital/zone (Kul'tiran + Zandalari + Nightborne), some who have none (Vulp + Mag'har + Void-Elves), some who have dungeons as capital(Dark-Iron, Mecha-Gnome),...
2) The idea of apartement is interesting : Think of it as a BIG Inn / barrack with a few convinient assets with 8 - 12 spare room, where someone can buy a room for a low price. Intended for those with not much money or those who are cool with small spaces (not many decorations, RP choice, "the inn down there offer me all I need."). Compared to the Neighborhood, it may become much more alive because for the same space, where 12 people may live in that "manor" district, 30+ may live in the barrack.
3) Remember all those Isles we plundered in BfA ? Why not using them ? THAT might be the wet dream of many Guilds. There are enough biome to please everybody and space to make entire castle... Just a problem of capital becoming "irrelevant" if too much stuff accessible. Also, it's a bit cheap from the devs to just use an island "in the middle of nowhere, not even on the map everybody use".
House in the wilderness ? Not convinced overall. My others option are more "MMO-friendly" with the whole community.
i guild island would go hard ngl
there will be no neighbourhoods, the whole housing thing will be phased af
I always imagined my troll haveing a cave in Cliffside sorounding Orgrimmar with View on the city xd
Yeah I was thinking guild housing might be better than individual housing.
Would free up more space as well.
I love the idea of that concept video, of chosing your house the way you chose your character, to pick the style & colour etc.
And would love to be able to chose which of my mounts are hanging around my house - the stable was the best thing about the garrison, lol.
When I play Valheim my partner & I go out adventuring & killing the big bosses in the morning, and then by the afternoon, it's lovely to go chill & build our cool ass bases & do something chilled out. When I play WoW, I'll go off adventuring, but when I hit the wall, I just log off instead. I don't think of myself as a "casual" player, I probably put in far more hours than raiders do, and I pay the same money every month. I am disabled, so I am stuck in my own home alone all day, so WoW gives me that social time & a chance to interact with the world still, but I hate doing current dungeons, raids & PvP, since my pain medication means I can't think fast on the spot, and I need to be able to randomly go AFK without notice. For quite a few expansions, I hit max level & then couldn't complete anything, because everything tried to force me into dungeons & raids. I love the Dragonfligh & War Within accounts for the fact that there are all kinds of players that like to play the game in their own ways, and doesn't make one out to be better than the other. I don't mind putting the hard work in to earn rewards, I just want to be able to solo content for the most part, so I can leave my character to be killed if I have to go AFK, and not stress that a bunch of other people have to wait for me. I'm still social with friends & my guild.
I'm really looking forward to veing able to go potter about in my house making things pretty & relaxing after a challenging morning of killing things.
i remember in ESO they had player housing, was fun to have friends over and such, you decorated the house and property however you liked, and see something like that for wow is great
At the core of Player Housing is the ability for the player to express their creativity in the world they love. The more control over it, the more creativity they allow us to express, the better it will do.
i am excited about player housing for you. but to me it sounds like a complete waste of time. wow is a time based game, any time players use decorating is time they lose not making their dude stronger.
yes! i hope we can completely customize item placement and be creative, im so scared it will be like the garrisons only choosing preloaded features
@@zachishot17 in eq2 you can win housing achievements, trophies and be a part of parade of home tours cast votes, you can have a place to put all your cool house items that drop while youre out adventuring maybe more aimed towards end game but you might find you like it :) i hope its like eq2
Instanced neighborhoods in each major city.
Make each city's neighborhoods have access to specific professions or perks:
Ironforge: Blacksmithing
Exodar: Jewelcrafting
Silvermoon: Enchanting
Thunder Bluff: Leatherworking
Etc.
Make your first home cheap, each additional one progressively more expensive. Have your HomeStone be able to choose between your housing plots. Allow guilds to share an instanced plot.
yes like eq2 you can tour all kinds of style housing in each city instance in, so fun to tour the parade of homes on the instance window see the top 10 houses of the month and vote for them so fun!
Dark Age of Camelot had this figured out 15+ yrs ago....not to the scale of WoW, but the increase in computing power today vs then ....
I'm of the camp where this is actually so significant I will come back to the game to see it and I quit playing in Legion. That's saying something,
same, i'm coming back for player housing, i hope it's going to be customizable and not choices of preloads like the garrisons, as someone who also loves sim4 and eq2 parade of homes i'm excited for what will come of it
Let's hope they get it right. Many have tried and failed with this. One game that really did it well was Wildstar, now discontinued.
I’ve always wanted player housing, ESO by far has the best and I’ve always wanted something like that for wow , glad it’s finally here
I've always wondered why wow hasn't had housing to have things like kitchens, alchemy rooms, blacksmithing sheds, trophy rooms that you can select which bosses to hang up, etc. Housing is very popular in other games and glad it may be happening in wow.
everytime i filled a blizzard survey; "please add player housing" I'd like to think they added it because of me 🙃😂
I wanted a Gawd Durn guild hall. That would be more interesting and social. Guild trophies 🏆 , place to gather for raids, raid travel to raid zones, dungeons, and delves when grouped with your guild mates.
This solves the antisocial part of garrisons.
player housing AND guild halls would be dope!
The whole thing of this should be like to show off your house. All the shit you gotten in raids, questing and the like. A place you are proud of. That used to be what made WOW in its day. In additional on a casual perspective, I would love to see like mini-games in any capital city. Say like play "Poker" in the Blue Note in Stormwind. That would be fun.
right? a place to reminisce on all your achievements and unique memories attached to every item in your house you collected (or specifically hunted for) along the way
The way it was done in Wildstar was pretty amazing I think.
The geographical aspect of it was easy, floating island. So lorewise was easy.
But you could visit other house if they were open to visitors. You could allow other player to modify it. There was some spaces reserved for some type of game/challenges, daily quests and some harvest. And a lot of customisation possible
I've always wanted it. I played DAoC before WoW, and loved player housing in that game.
The player house should be a celebration of all thing "Me."
Give me unlocks based on my achievements, not on random drops. Onyxia's head? Just get her achievement, don't grind her for 30 years.
My warband should live inside my house with me as an extension of myself (yes, even cross-faction) just walking around or practicing on target dummies or whatever. That means put is somewhere in a neutral territory, not necessarily Stormwind and Orgrimmar.
Give me armor stands and weapon stands to show off my favorite transmogs, then even let me equip those transmogs right from clicking on the stand itself.
Give me profession tables at home (to a limit) so I can work on my favorite professions from home. Hell, maybe even use the Garrison/Class Hall/Follower system to send my warband out on missions to gather profession materials. Your alt druid is a skinner? Send them on a mission to gather skin. The result being that I cannot log onto that character for however long they are on mission. Make me WANT to have alts!
This would be sick. Giving you a reason to log into your alt & send your main to grind some jewels or ore while you level or grind a dungeon for better gear. It'd feel a lot more like a party than an assortment of characters you made. This also adds for bigger RP elements btwn guilds & servers.
I'm looking forward to this !!! I hope we get a fair amount of assets to use in the house for customizations.
I like the idea of running a store from my player house. I can have work orders that people place and make profession items for people.
Been playing WoW since 2004, and I have been wanting housing, because I want a place to call my own. I want to RP I my own way where I head out, quest, do some dungeons, and head back to my house to relax, maybe there is an herb garden for alchemy supplies, maybe an stable for mounts, maybe a wizards sanctum for portals, maybe a warriors training area for a buff for PvP, and I want to decorate my house with stuff I find around the world and maybe the heads of creatures I’ve killed. I also would like an option for race houses. Dwarfs should have different options than Humans, or night elves etc.
I liked my garrison, I had a bank and an auction house, a ship yard, everything, place my house in my garrison...and bring back the hearthstone to it. .I had a herbal farm and all sorts of things..I loved the garrisons! I had my own army! my own barracks, We need portals thats all! Make the house open to all your alts too, so any one of them can enter. It is your home in wow!
u have the hearthstone to ur garrison in ur toy collection
I agree, I love my garrison. I still go there.
Player housing improves immersion, it’s a natural evolution of any MMO that wants to cater to players that love the franchise but aren’t thrilled by raids or pvp rankings.
you mean most players that most player most ppl dont pvp and do raids beside normal or lfr
I've personally never been interested in player housing or even understood why people want it except RPers. It being in the game doesn't bother me though. Im pretty sure Ian said it wasn't gonna be instanced or have any player power tied to it in a interview and that they learned a lot of what not to do from Garrisons and MoP Farms. But Im really confused as to how they are gonna pull this off. Also the houses cant be to convenient so there's still people in the world and major cities. This will be a really huge thing to implement.
should all be aesthetic, show off your skills and achievements, nothing power or item level related, dont gamify it like its a literal gold or resource farm. decorate it like its a human house or a dwarven tavern. maybe horde you can have a cool large tiki hut for trolls or a orc home. spread the decorations through _all_ content, not just midnight content. kill bosses and get items, in the open world and instanced content. maybe even have things that are craftable and sold on the auction house. if you spread the stuff around, you wont have to worry about people not being in the world and cities. if you give them something to grind or hunt down, they will be out and about to try and acquire it. Ive never played a game that had housing where the world wasnt bustling. I find it so irrational of a thing to worry about. Blizzard really pulled out the PTSD with that travesty called garrisons.
because players like me ui spend most my time gold making and transmog hunting and this is a way to show it off
@@soonerfan3838 think of all the questing for unique house items! meeting other decorators along the way, in eq2 you could win trophies for being in top to houses that month i'm so excited!
SWTOR has a great housing system. So many different houses for the players, and the huge space ships for the guilds. Thousands upon thousands of decoration items. The bad part is that you can't interact with 99% of those items, they're just there for you to look at. But we can visit other player's houses, and so many are so cool.
as it is for most housing in any game. You can just watch it and thats it. Blizz cannot implement anything of use because that will end like the garrison
I've been playing wow since 2005. I think this would be an awesome addition. Not like Mists of Pandaria though. Where we got a crappy little shack that didn't even have a door lol. It needs to be 100% interactive or people will just not waste their time doing it.
Maybe have certain quests that offer upgrades to your house and decorations. I think it would be cool.
Yes and no to the house quest upgrading. I play a lot of build type games (Rust, New World, Green Hell, Once Human, Icarus etc etc) The thing about the questing for upgrades is that’s somewhat to how garrisons were…I hated wasting time with garrison stuff to improve it when I could be out questing/grinding and already making stops in cities for stuff anyways. I could understand quests that unlock house designs, sorta like how we got the dracthyr colors/armors etc.
Housing in WoW is gonna be just like your garrison in Warlords of Draenor expansion!
Not sure how people don’t see that!!!
I'd say I have to agree..... But then again what if it's like Final Fantasy where houses are limited..... What I mean is there is a limited number of houses to buy in the first place.... If this is the case either way it's going to be something else for the community to go ape sh!t about.
@@thomasfulton5696 I only see it going two ways.
The garisson route, fully instanced solo houses kinda pointless and just something for the player itself.
Or they go the FFXIV route and do instanced neighborhoods with limited plots where everyone in that instance can see all the houses. But then people will go complete ape shit about the limited availability and complain about blizzard "gatekeeping" the feature, being elitist and anti casual.
I'm not excited about player housing at all, cause I'm 100% sure it'll be either completely pointless feature people will forget within a couple months tops.
Or something they have to make you work for by renting a plot with gold and having to maintain while making you seek out challenges/do weekly stuff and such to unlock the cool things and then people will complain about that.
Garrisons were never intended to be legit player housing and anyone gullible enough to believe that is stupid. Blizzard made it clear they didn’t like the PH idea so to shut us up they gave us garrison bs. That’s all it was nothing more
I just made the same comment. It will be instanced and lonely. Your house is not visible to others and customization will be basically non existent.
Why the f#@& would they do the same thing as a system they've acknowledged wasn't well-implemented twice? Use your brain.
I don't see us getting a big house like this in the zones , I imagine just a doorway in a city building of our choice say stormwind that'll have a mist like Delves do to walk in so people can share the plot. It'll be a simple one or two story house. That is why we are getting Gilneas and Silvermoon rebuilt etc
I love the concept of housing, the neighborhood style would be great too. But I would also like to see guild halls for all the people can come to plan dungeons and raids. I played LOTR online and they have instance housing and it worked for that game you could invite people to your house, you could store stuff there in storage and you could display items that you made or looted, like a weapons stand, or armor mannequin displays
Its a dead on arrival feature, alot of mmo's have had player housing and it has been detrimental to the population. wow has already had player housing and people hated it, we do not need garrison 2.0. the latest expansions are already anemic in content, instead of putting in a bad feature such as player housing lets get the game healthy again and get back up to 5 raids in an expansion.
If it's going to be phased it's going to be useless, just like garrisons. It's an MMO ( MASSIVE MULTIPLAYER). Things can't be phased, it ruins everything
Yes because I want a bunch of randoms walking around my property and in my rooms.
@@somesassybrat305 Then play a single player game. It's unrealistic and phasing ruins the game. It should be like old WoW, an MMO, a MASSIVE multiplayer online game. Adding phased garrisons was the dumbest thing they ever did and honestly that expannsion ruined WoW for alot of people. You're literally worried about privacy in your "property" in an online multiplayer game? That's honestly highkey weird.
@@Vegadoro garrison ruined the game because it was a moneymaker and wod had a serious content draught. A house is a private thing where you can showcase stuff you want to show to people you invite and no one else. Also wow has too many players and no space for houses that could freely be accessed by others which would also cause a bloated housing market like ff had. Also people who like roleplay or want private guild meetings and such don't want 'mannymcstab' jumping all around them popping spells and toys.
@@somesassybrat305 Mannymcstabs exist IRL aswell. You can't micromanage who you meet and who you don't. If you want a private guild meeting you can go to a raid or even a lonely part of the giant world Azeroth has to offer. I understand that it would be too bloated because of all the houses and that's why I'm against this whole thing. Because it will be like Draenor. People sitting inside even more phased instances and not just dungeons/raids/BG's/Arenas, making this game once again, even more less alive.
@@Vegadoro you said it was an mmo. It's an an mmo rpg, role playing game, which implies immersion. If you think a private house will somehow ruin the mmo part of it you're just kidding yourself. It won't. People will have something to fiddle with and still have plenty reason to go outside and mingle. Housing works in many MMORPG. Why would it not in wow?
Honestly I couldn’t care less about housing.
Correct, because it offers no gameplay.
@86Corvus exactly, it’s just a feature that offer nothing but “look how awesome my house look after spending 100 hrs of collecting shit that nobody cares”
It does offer gameplay though?
You know customizing it and having a place to call your very own alongside collecting rare items to put in your house?
That is gameplay just because it isnt doing the same dungeon or raid for the 1000th time doesnt mean it isnt gameplay lmao
@@BKBK-yo1zz Bro why would you need a ''place to call your very own'' in a videogame? I got my own house for that. I just wanna play.
@ for rp purposes or a place to hang out with my friends and guildies in private that you can customize to your liking.
Personally I hope theres a neighbourhood of 5 houses.
1 - Your House (obviously)
2 - *The* Top Rated House from the last week
3 - An "Editors Choice" House where one of the top 10/20 rated player houses are displayed chooses by devs.
4 - A Random House, chosen from any player who has actively been interacting with the system ('actively' so that there isn't just one abandoned house)
5 - An NPC house, one designed for devs that's owned by an NPC from the zone/area
This would allow for houses to be 'swapped' when in a party of 5. the order they'd be changed out would be 4,3,2/5.
Idk if this makes sense but it does to me XD
Star Wars Galaxies had this feature years ago. No phasing and you had the ability to lock or unlock the door. Also allow certain friends access to it; they had player built Guild Halls as well. Players also had the ability to use alts to buff other players passing by that needed buffed up; for tips of course. This was back in 2003/4 when I played it so, technology has got to be better now.
If there is a portal to get to a place that gets you anywhere and like a crafting boost, a yard out front or something, huge storage, etc, would make it not just pointless. It. Could be really cool
Whatever way they choose to implement it, housing is guaranteed to be instanced. The best model of location use I've seen is in the Elder Scrolls Online.
I wish you will also be able to pick and choose which alts you’d like to idle and walk around the plot.
I'll tell you what I'd really want to see, if I was WoW's main designer:
I want all the portals that currently lead to Stormwind or Orgrimmar to instead lead to a zone where all the housing for your GUILD is. A main guild area, like a garrison, with amenities worked on by the guild and assigned by the guild master, with enough room to expand out so that every guild member above a certain rank has their own house within the zone, and below that rank, there is a common barracks with a portal that can take the peasants to their individual player house.
This zone would have a portal room with portals broken down by expansion to all the various locations. The portal rooms in the capital cities would now only have portals to your guild zone and to the guild zones of other guilds and communities that your alts are allied with (you would be able to customize which portal goes where in the capital).
For extra credit, this zone would also be a town, like the garrison was, on an island area that has quests of a similar style to the 20th Anniversary stuff at all times, and handled seasonal stuff.
Im indifferent to it honestly. If it's anywhere near what 14 does with the houses it should be interesting. As long as it doesn't sell plots like 14 it will be cool. My friends in 14 were into RP and would drag me to nightclubs that had live DJs on twitch, fight clubs where people would /roll and emote out attacks, and some folks would have wild ass parkour courses inside and out and it was pretty cool honestly. It has a lot of potential, we'll see.
For me, i always considered garrisons was a first draft for player housing, they just made it where you could do everything from there. As someone who has been playing FFXIV since BoA and experienced their player housing a majority of the time people used it to show off endgame drops from bosses or craftable trophies from boss drops. Being on an RP server myself (both on WoW and FFXIV), many of those players will go out of their way to make a home that is pleasing to them. What i think would be great is being able to craft job profession items that help boosts stats when crafting from said item. For example, crafting a pair or boots at a tanning rack becomes an item level 205 pair of boots instead of like item level 200 pairofboots made not at a tanning rack. Granted, I know that crafting in wow and crafting in FFXIV are different but it would help keep crafting viable even during endgame. Of course mats for endgame pieces are harder to obtain and need more of it to make the best craftable items.
I am happy for those that want it while struggling to imagine wanting player housing for myself.
I know players, and blizzard, want player housing with little to nothing to compare with WoDs garrison, but I did play WoD when it wasn't current content and lost interest in the idea of having my own little slice of the MMO world to call my own. What I want is few game bugs, cheating punished, and good spec/roll balance because what I do in wow for fun is pvp. For many years prior my main focus was pve, enjoying raids, dungeons, storyline, and exploring. I want to want player housing, but it would have to be particularly tremendous to take up my limited gametime.
I think a New World approach to this could be cool. Have set house areas and whoever has the coolest decorations has their specific house shown as the "display model" for that house. Gives those who want to put a ton of effort into housing an opportunity to compete to have their house shown off over others and keeps it instanced so we're not prevented from placing a house because every square inch of the world is a wasteland of abandoned houses.
I very much doubt they will build something like we saw in Starwars: Galaxies where people actually built their own Cities pretty much with guild members houses all grouped together. And ANYONE could just walk through and see everything.
There was countless player made cities all over those massive sprawling maps.
But it would be nice to have a particular area in each zone (so you have a choice where you want to have it) where you can build an actual Phased Guild Town with members houses all over and have it zoned so that perhaps not everyone can see it, but your own guild members can see and visit their guild town and see each others homes in a pattern of lots.
Imagine if, in your house, you could let all your characters roam around the map, and you could interact with them and access their professions, commanding them to make your gear without needing to log in to them.
By the way, Orgrimmar and Storm wind are beside the ocean. So the gnomes and Goblins can use their machinery to throw earth into the sea and expand their land, like Monaco did. Undercity and Ironforge and Gnomereagen can be scavated more.
Player Housing should allow for the Players to be able to find furniture blueprints by clicking on a wide range of now interactable items that can be found in Raids, Dungeons, Scenarios, or even in the overworld. I want to be able to snag a Fainting Couch from Bastion and pair it up with a chess table from Suramar along with a chandelier from Silvermoon.
I'd like to see neighbourhoods in different zones... building your neighbourhood with others who live there for higher ratings. Like we do with the guild perks. Be able to walk through different neighbourhoods and see what they have accomplished. Even have a neighbourhood chat mode, a bulletin board to organize events. Venders with 'neighbourhood only' merch, quests to work on projects to building up your town. It wouldn't be that much different than the Garrison except you would be working with others as a group for your town and the instance would be an area you could walk around in and see the other houses.
You guys have forgotten there is a game called New World where they have it set up to be able to see a certain amount of Player housing. I feel this would be easy as hell for them to set up.
I started playing MMORPGs by playing Dark Age of Camelot. That game had player housing. It was pretty tight. There were neighborhoods and landmarks (lakes and stuff). I liked having trophies up too. I liked the added benefits to it (portals, access to banks, etc.). I liked the garrison 'housing' as well but it was too big, too busy. You couldn't visit others either. It just seemed like you were out there by yourself. I will be curious to see how this works.
If you know about wow alpha - look near Stockade. There is entrance to housing (that was never added) :D .
There are two ways:
1. like swtor - instancing, all houses instances, teleportation via spell, on terminal you will be able to look into houses of friends
2. like lotro - which is way better. near or in every major city there will be new instanced district that will contain like 5-10 houses.. and their inside will be instanced too.
And you will be able to choose which house you want, which spot, but you will of course own instanced inside.
I wish for this. It make housing much better.. you can really see your friends, sit on backyard and talk with other owners of houses.. + decoration inside..
In lotro clans have clan halls full of decorations from dungeons.. like trophies from bosses.. Will be huge have Onyxia head inside :D on wall :D
Ingame shop home upgrades incoming!
When I first played Fabel along long time ago, and I was able to own homes, that was cool.. I then started playing World of Warcraft soon after I finished fable ,ever since then the one thing that’s been missing is a home of my own, in wow
I think Guild Halls would be so much better tbh
You would be surprised how many people ARE NOT in a guild. Could be an incentive to get them in tho
@@MarcelianOnline You would be surprised how many people would HATE to join a guild just to have a house only the officiers and guild master can decorate.
Hell no! Individual housing is the fucking way to go.
Including myself 😂 would definitely push me to join one
I'd love Guild Halls so much. I say lets have both!
Just play guildwars 2 instead...
They could make a portal where you get ported to a "reality" and each reality holds around 100 houses with stuff. I cant imagine having houses in stormwind besides making them incredibly expensive like thousands of bucks. And on top of that it would only work in a "apartment" setup if many people want to live in stormwind. I can imagine having Apartments in SW and OG.
But i dont see having them "physical" ingame somewhere, because the world is wayy too small to hold tens of thousands of houses or even more.
They have been asked for years to figure out how to revitalize older expansion mats. well, here you go. Tie housing mats and decorations to professions and the mats used from all expansions depending on what you want to have made.
When I first played Fabel along long time ago, and I was able to own homes, that was cool.. I then started playing World of Warcraft soon after I finished fable ,ever since then the one thing that’s been missing is a home of my own, in wow if you’re wondering how everybody in the game is going to get their own home they’re doing it the same way they did the Garrison. Everyone had their Garrison in the exact same spot but each player was in their own dimensional space so everybody saw something different only if somebody was in your party and you were the leader could you invite them to your garrison this will be the same way for the Home update.
Dude make Housing like Tibia, where there are whole cities full of non-instanced houses, and also houses on the middle of nowhere. You can see your neighboors trophies, and also you can put your house for sale and buy other players house, so there is a whole house market across the servers
This could be really great for the rest of the game. Rare materials and recipes can drop from bosses to help progression guilds fund themselves
Professions could make all kinds of things with materials from all expansions. It is an opportunity to make everything useful again. There could be collectibles in all kinds of content and old or new dungeons to add to replayability.
I have been waiting for Player housing for a long time. Blizzard may be late to the game, but this gave them the opportunity to study the other games that have PH. Where the accelled and where they failed. And then we have the forums loaded with suggestions
PH has the potential to significantly expand the the WoW economy.
Profession expansion and new ones:
Professions to expand
Tailoring: Various items in the house made of linens (practical or decorative)
Mining: Mining stones of various types. (marble, granite, etc.)
Blacksmithing: Various items in the house made of metal (practical or decorative)
New Professions
Carpentry: Various items in the house made out of wood (practical or decorative)
Masonry: Using different types of stone to build structures.
Sculpting: This would be a sub-profession that branches off of blacksmithing or masonry
3a: Blacksmith sculpting: can make various statues, monuments, and other ornate things of different sizes out of metals
3b: Masonry sculpting: can make various statues, monuments, and other ornate things of different sizes out of stone.
Warband Integration
Warband can be implemented to occupy a single house. When one character is active, the other can be doing random things around the house, or be assigned specific tasks to perform while inactive. For instance, have an alchemy table in the house. A character who knows alchemy can be assigned to make specific items and has access to the Warband bank. When all the required mats are available, the character with create the item and transfer it back to the bank. Same with cooking and jewel crafting.
This is a copy/paste of a post of mine straight from the WoW forums
maybe give reason to raid more and do more dungeons for items for houses like ff14 does
It def wont change forever. All housing will do is provide a bigger more extensive version of transmog. That's all it's for, trust me. They will create 500 lazyboy chairs for you to collect, and like you do for outfits, you will also do for your house.
Would be nice to have setup shop function too with the housing...like able to have NCP vendors shops to sell not soul bound stuff to people passing.
I have experienced Fallout 76's housing, FF14's and ESO. I am quite knowledgeable when it comes to this shit and let me tell you -- if the house turns out to be just a display thing, the feature will be DOA. We need stuff to do, like gardening, fishing etc. maybe even have some unique buffs. In Fallout 76 for example there are gatherer items i.e. spend X amount of time online and every 10 minutes it collects some useful material, then you can play a musical instrument for 15 seconds and get a unique buff for an hour or two then you can go on adventuring, profession tables etc. etc. Not saying that they should do that too much, it may become an OCD thing, but yeah, definitely have stuff 'to do'.
Player housing zone is the way to go and also make it so that you sell items from your house on the auction house
I want suburbs with plots of land and the ability to build our own style of houses! Get your alts out into the gardening to herb, have the pets out running about, places to hang your rare weapons, mogs, trophies. We need to enjoy our own space with our own options and be able to have people come and go, this will change WoW for ever if done right. Just think about the different concepts you could have in different downs or parts of the map, quaint houses and farms, beach huts, gothic castles... the list could go on forever.
If it’s done like SWTOR then it will be instanced…you can make it publicly visitable or invite only. You also have a basic layout That you can expand and decorate etc with your mounts, decorations and your NPC characters etc
The houses would also not be visible in the open world, you have to choose to enter the instance to get to it
Apartment in Stormwind for the hearthstone
Farmland in Goldshire/Elwynn where you can assign workers to farm plants for you
Mining hut in searing gorge where you can assign workers to mine nodes and jewels.
There should be a BUNCH of free area you can place your house with your own choice.
Basically stand alone, unphased garrisons but separated in the world.
I would HATE having to bother with workers. Housing should be a cosmetic thing for fun. Don't make it into Garrisons 2.0.
I liked player housing in RuneScape when it came out. Customizing and laying out rooms, unlocking upgrades like portals and useful utilities, but in the end it became the only reason to visit a house is to use a gilded altar or portals and who cares about the rest. So unique utility is a must have. Still a cool feature and I look forward to it. I hope they have loot drops for house items throughout the world. Could also turn into a gold sink which is good, and hopefully not too much of a MTX pit or have other content suffer.
Holly Longdale has been long time the community manager at everquest2. Everquest 2 has an excellent housing system. There are professions like carpenters too which can make furniture. Her experience with that will help a lot.
Do you remember that instance portal in the canal district of Stormwind? That was intended to be player housing. But it was crapped. PH has been on the table since the beginning
I can't wait for player housing
I could see it working if you could claim 1 per account on only 1 server. And maybe have a badge where if you have been playing for 20 years you are eligible for a house in stormwind or orgrimar or major hubs, 15+ can be in major hubs, 10+ close to major cities/hubs, etc. That way, it rewards longtime players.
The best idea for housing I've seen was in SWTOR personal ship with your crew and if you want to show off You can always take ur mate onboard.
My favorite version of in game houses is from the MMO Tibia. They were fixed assets within the city and you had to auction for them, they had a monthly rent fee and there was an economy, buy and sell market, and supply and demand. Different sizes and layouts. Some had a shop front component.
Blizzard would have to balance the number of houses versus the number of people on a server for sure.
If they implement it so that everyone gets a house and it's roughly the same footprint and you just decorate or skin it. I won't really care at all and it won't mean much IMO.
With so many people having millions of gold and then the casual players not having that, there will be a huge disconnect. I don't see that playing out well. Same struggles happen in FF14 for vacant lots where players have to place bids and hope for the best, meaning so many miss out on the experience altogether.
It was one of the main reasons I moved to TESO. Sometimes I like to unwind by building structures, decorating them and creating thematic spaces. It's ironic that Midnight seems to contain fix to both of my pet peeves in WoW - lack of housing and raid or die approach.
Pandora's box has a negative connotation... this could be a good thing. If this exists, this might be one of the mogs that most people will want to chase after.
Im total excited. I loved the garni and this will be better
I think it will be an entire instance that you can invite people into
I am interested in the concept as a line of progression not tied to player power. But that only works in an MMO space if other players can see the thing you've built. So I will reserve my judgement until they reveal the details of how the system works.
There's no MMO where other players cannot see what you have built. I wouldn't worry about that.
If they introduce an instanced map zone that is a player city location, then you could stack a couple to a few hundred "homes", forming a neighborhood similar to those in EQ housing. There could be several neighborhood themes, from orc, human, elf, nightelf, dwarf, troll, undead, etc. This would help keep some aesthetic guidelines so your housing zone doesnt end up looking like someone spilled a pile of every color of lego brick and called it skittleville. Allow each home owner to enable permission of entry to all, or just friends, or nobody, and a custom range within those permissions of interaction with your home (aka guild bank, storage, crafting stations, beds for inn well rested bonuses, etc). Various plot sizes and costs should be present. A single player doesnt need a mansion, but a guild could benefit from one. Imagine a coastal city instance where the human theme has shipyards and a harbour, a castle area with an obscene price tag for the castle, or the town center plot, but would allow guilds to establish a real feeling of community. Npcs present, garrisons would be determined by the instance development. Horde would have their instance, and Alliance would have theirs. Probably as extensions of the capitol cities to encourage through traffic so the capitols wouldnt feel so lifeless. Also, could have npc buildings like stables, inns, barracks, training grounds (dummy practice), portal/mage tower, etc present which tier up with development of the neighborhood.
I need those plots to be not faction specific, imagine all the flavor you get by making a scarlet crusade themed house in Tirisfal glades as a human
The concepts/ideas pitched here are great, but I'm convinced it will be instanced, with only party members seeing an instanced zone, like garrisons.
instance isn't necessarily bad, if you can set your home to public or private then add friends who can enter or customize security settings it would work in eq2 you can instance into a parade of homes for those who want to particapte
@gimppy411 Oh, like make a whole zone, or neighborhood instance, that could be fun.
I've wanted housing with a farm and stable since garrisons.
2:32 I kind of like Flame's train of thought on this. It's the perfect excuse to up-rez and update Stormwind and Orgrimmar to be on par visually with the likes of Bel'ameth and the new Silvermoon coming in Midnight.
totally forgot about the Silvermoon revamp!!!1 Bro, has to be the reason it was announced right?
@@MarcelianOnline the announcment was because midnight will be in quel'thalas. With housing i think they announce a complete rewamp of all zones. 😅 but fly in silvermoon damn this will finally happen 😂
Nice that they are adding it. I personally won't use it much as I like chilling in the capital hub and seeing/interacting with people.
@7:55 it is already going to be "too convenient" even if they add nothing. There is a mount or a toy or something that can do anything. Transmong, mail, AH, bank, you name it.
Where to put the houses is probably the biggest hurdle, and second how to manage the plots/placement. You either have to make new areas or move quest mobs because most land in WOW already has something going on on it. I would say 90% of people who want houses want them to show off their accomplishments and see other peoples' accomplishments, not just have a space they can chill out in.
i really enjoyed the garrison aspect of the game and would enjoy a house, even if other players cant see or interact with it. Other comments talk about having it be a home for our alts and i LOVE that idea. However before diving into housing, maybe we can get undercitys FP to function again since its been bugged since the UC got scarred. Id really like that FP to work again as i enjoy undercity but ive been avoiding it since access to leave is annoying.
one of my friends i play with says that its just gonna be a cash grab for features, pay for this property feature, pay for this customization etc, so i agree with her thats a bad idea lol, so i hope its not a "pay to win" feature
Player housing has to be more than just some building. I'm thinking of Star Wars: The Old Republic, where player houses could be huge fortresses, underwater bases, or even ships. You had a blank canvas to fill, and some were so large that you could park your character's starship.
If it's going to be more than Garrisons 2.0 it has to really be a place to mess with, to change, to make your own.
about the house A1 and A2 problem: new world has that aswell since there are very few houses in the cities for everyone. they implemented a point system. im cant remember how it worked but the person with the highest amount of points had his house shown in town to everyone.
Wormhole generator works great for all zones already. Gonna need more than a room for a Hallowfall portal.
The video looks so much fun to play with! Where did you find this footage.
Its from a modding project so i suppose from private servers? Hence why he censored the icon in the top-left.
If you follow the credited link youll get to see the trailer of it and the projects name.
@@RedRiverCAE thank you!
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