5 stages of acceptance of midnight housing

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Here is a small psychological mini-essay, stages of acceptance of midnight housing. I hope u enjoy it

Stage 1. Prelaunch. Does not know, what midnight housing will look like. Imagines all the beautiful things, midnight housing can be. Is very happy and hopeful
Stage 2. Launch. Spends two hours, designing their house, puts up photos on reddit, tired, but happy
Stage 3. One year after launch. Sad, that their friends don’t want to come to their house and feels bored there, but does not admit it. Only comes to the house to do seasonal/festive quests, 30 mins a month tops. The hood looks desolate, so goes to actual festive hub to find people.
Stage 4. 3 years after launch. Feels like seasonal/festive quests are too boring to justify coming to the house. Spends 15 minutes a year there — usually when the game forceteleports them to their house after a long break. Feels frustrated, when the epic edition of the new expansion offers a housing item instead of a mount
Stage 5. 5 years after launch. “Housing was always meant to be a midnight-only feature”. “Its bad for socializing, this is a mmo”. “People should not be forced to farm old dungeons to get a 500 furniture peaces achievement”. “Housing? What housing?”

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I don’t want anyone in my house.

Housing in other games doesn’t just die. I know you have this personal agenda to hate on it all the time. But really those of us who have been waiting for this will happily use it for years and years and years.

I honestly don’t understand the need to keep making the same discussion. You don’t care for housing long term. Great, that doesnt’ mean others wont.

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I hope this post shows, that I specifically think long-term, not launch agitation

Housing in other games has utility, that’s why it “doesn’t just die”

Think long-term and think general public/other people.

anyway, I hope u enjoyed my little psychological vignette, lets wait and observe how it ages

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The post is the same as your last one. And that’s about as much as I’m going to engage with it.

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Essay? What are we ? Some school going kids?

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All my posts are different, from the style to the purpose.
this one is a paragraph essay, just something to laugh and enjoy and bring the mood up
Please no ad hominem spam and needless personal negativity
Thank you!

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You don’t have to be a psychiatrist nor psychic to predict that.

Remember character customization options updates?
Yeah, people were excited for whooping three days lol. I personally don’t even remember which are new and which are old.

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haha yes its common sense. by and large people understand what this is

but thanks for bringing character customization options up tho, I think I could write something funny about that too, but I totally forgot about it

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I’m pretty neutral on housing, but I do like the idea of it generating some genuine excitement among the playerbase.

If Blizzard plays their cards right, it could be a positive move for the game overall, and that’s definitely not a bad thing.

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yeh, for sure, this could have been a massive win

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If Garisson is anything to go by, it’s the place where I can have Bank, Void Bank, Guild Bank, Transmogrifier AND Auction House within 20 yards. I still spend some time there, and that’s where I usually logout my alts.

So 10 years later it still has utility and still sees use. And like Puny said, when I want to feel “peace” I go there to not have 50+ characters run around (even I can have that nowadays in any city that isn’t Dornogal, Valdrakken or Stormwind)

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yep, same, but its nothing like garrison
in garrison you could hire a bodyguard, draft a ship, build an inn or a portal room, or do pvp, or train mounts, or gather resources, or do fishing, or do mission table, or pets etc etc
midnight housing is alleged to be without any utility.

so basically what you can do there is put down a decoration and just stand and look at it

so that’s the problem, its purely decorative, there is no gameplay, its much smaller and its in the most boring location possible

so yes, if blizz just updated the garrison, it would have been better, since people still go there and try to do something there

but as it is, you cant expect people to come there back, except for festivities farm

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I’m possibly coping, but I can see Blizzard adding actual utilities in our houses. Unless the RP scene blooms enough to not require it.

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lets hope blizzard listens and puts some gameplay/utility in!
it could be a thing, that you come back to do 10 years after

its just that so far all the comments of blizzard point the other way

btw I don’t think RP is against utility

utility and real gameplay actually reinforces rp

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They can create “new” non-gameplay utility. For example imagine the amount of n-player toys they may be able to create that will be usable explicilty in houses and not in the world.

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yep for example they could put bomb golf into housing and then u can construct golf courses os something
or give us racing course construction etc

but blizzard said that undermine car stays in undermine
and that house outdoors will be separate plot in the neighbourhood, which suggests we wont get space for that race course.

like I agree with you about could bes
housing can be a big thing

I just don’t think thats what it actually will be, based on what blizz are saying, they seem it to be basically a big transmog

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Essays generally have an introduction which sets forth the argument, content which leverages research and evidence to support that argument, a conclusion to sum up, and a bibliography to list out where the evidence supporting the position is listed.

You’ve just barfed your biases out onto this forum without any supporting evidence or logic.

I don’t think you know what an essay is.

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100%

I visit my Garrison every month or so, why?: the Heartstone, it’s the quickest route that I know of for turning in that one Timewalking dungeon quest.

Now that I’m thinking about it, surely there must be a portal in Orgrimmar to get to Draenor (where the quest turn-in is).

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you are confusing genres
you clearly don’t know what a mini-essay is
however, this is not a theory of literature forum and I am not here to teach you literature
so i ask you to abstain from spam on off-topic and focus on wow-discussion
if you have any actual counter-arguments about the actual topic you are welcome to send them
if

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That which is asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

You haven’t made an argument, you have made baseless assertions.