So trying to avoid a spoiler here, but as a Night Elf Mage who is to be homeless two times over in the game, can we use this as an excuse for player housing?? lol
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Tbf, any excuse for player housing can only be a good thing!
ESO just gave me a house for logging in 3 days in a row. CMON BLIZZ XD
A bit of curiosity. Why? What is the point? Does the player need to shower and use the toilet when you log out? Friendly comment, no offense intended.
There’s several reasons for player housing. A chill place where you can just afk whilst looking up meta builds and such, somewhere to place achievement trophies, a fun activity in decorating for some downtime, RP, or it can even hold amenities to use (like garrisons) because you just maybe don’t like going to hubs.
I personally want player housing for RP, but there’s all manner of uses.
Housing serves as a secondary activity next to the “normal” game, similar to Pet Battles. It serves as a motivator to obtain a large amount of gold or as a currency sink for the already rich to show off their wealth through lavish interior.
Housing zones can also serve as recreational gathering spaces that serve a purely social function, away from the “functional” hubs, causing reduced friction in those spaces.
WoW’s problem is that instanced content like raids and M+ has become normal content in expense of everything else.
As someone who doesn’t raid WoW’s outside instanced content is just sad and depressing if you compare it even to mmo’s with only a fraction of playerbase that wow has.
I have long felt that WoW does its best when a competitor MMO is a serious challenge to it. It forces them to up their game and adapt the game to improve by using systems and ideas from each other and do them differently/better. The jump in popularity of XIV (i feel) gave Blizz the wake up call it needed.
One of the areas I feel Blizz could borrow is in player housing, look at how XIV does it and maybe go down a route of a simple house for individual players and a larger complex for guilds. Imagine what it could do for guilds.
- Trophies/Plaques to show off guild raiding feats
- Inhouse guild bank outside of major cities
- Housing items that are crafted (which could further help crafting classes)
Doing this could give guilds a focal point to come to and hang out, gives a guild a places where members can hang out. Blizz seem to be doing alot to work on PvP, PvE, systems, UI and new game modes - doing something like player/guild housing could be a way to help revamp a sense of community/guild identity.
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