We’ve been very aligned in our internal conversations that Housing is designed to be primarily player-first and not revenue-first. Housing will offer hundreds and hundreds of decorations and house customizations via in-game rewards but will also offer a smaller number of items in the cash shop as well.
I just want a logical reason why you would put something into the shop if you said ‘not REVENUE first.’ What is the point of the shop if the player comes first? If you’re going to offer more and more stuff in the shop, just stop with the subscription and embrace the shop completely. Stop doing this half-and-half thing. It’s embarrassing.
So, while an individual player can have a house, a community can have a Neighborhood!
I’m going to give you credit for this, because if you pull this off, it’s going to lead to a lot of very interesting interactions.
Blizzard isn’t the company it used to be, and after the Microsoft acquisition, I suspect they’ll be looking to recoup their investment. They can still put out some good stuff, but - as we very well know - they’ve also got a habit of messing things up. Housing could be great, but it could also absolutely end up being a resource drain with… questionable execution.
I totally get where you’re coming from, but I do think we should wait and see.
Warfronts on crack, if I could choose myself.
A PvE experience involving lots of players doing lots of different stuff on a large map to progress toward a shared victory condition.
I want the MMORPG gameplay of playing with lots of other people and killing foul monsters together and clashing in large epic battles to ensure victory, all wrapped in a heroic Warcraft setting.
I really liked the idea of what Warfronts could have been if Blizzard had spent the development resources iterating and evolving the feature. But alas, those development resources get to make Housing. Which is what some other players have desired. It is what it is.
Then what would be the point of a neighbourhood? They’ve done it specifically to make it social and I only want to be social with people I know. Things get out of hand on the forums often, imagine having a house there yuck.
I don’t even want to see other people’s ugly creations.
May sound harsh, but that’s how I feel. People are going to troll; creating horrible ugly stuff or just plain inappropriate stuff. I’m glad there’s a way to avoid this.
Depending on how your plot works within a neighbourhood, you could even have other players standing outside your house spamming toys and other irritating things. Yeah, no thanks.
I’m glad we have a choice between public and private.
Unless you have inside info from blizzard then anything is possible till shown otherwise, anything what anyone else have pictured of something that differs from your own opinion or image of it is then not delusional by the definition.
Expecting their beautiful zones to be polluted by ugly player created stuff IS delusional.
That was never going to happen. Has nothing to do with my own opinion and everything to do with common sense.
Not to mention: Limited space.
That was never a realistic option. Sorry.
Open world building would be hard to do i think. And like you pointed out… it would ruin the open world with ppl building all sorts of weird stuff. Dedicated zones was the only reasonable option, i just wish there were more options for zones to start with.
Guess it was too much to ask to not try make a debate out of it, you called me 2 times delusional by now and next you claim everyone to be wrong if they dont share same picture of something which you have imagined something to become which none in real have any information till blizzard releases such, now im done talking with you if you cant make some reply at me that doesnt seem like an insult.
From the initial look it seems this isn’t likely but I would love to see customization of the neighbourhood itself too, would be especially cool for private/guild neighbourhoods. Places where you could put up statues/monuments/fountains etc. Almost animal crossing style.
A nice house in an Elwynn Forest type surrounding does sound fine for starters.
But I’m hoping for more neighbourhoods fairly soon.
By the way, it did say: “its coastline, and Azshara” so maybe there could be a nice section for the horde neighbourhood.
I get that. I always counted on orc/human for starters, so I’m not disappointed. But I am looking forward to more options.
The thing is: If they really want to make this social, the more neighbourhoods they make, the more spread out the players will be. So there’s that.
Not a concern for me personally, since I will never use a public neighbourhood, but if that’s one of their ‘pillars’, I guess Blizzard does care about that sort of thing.
I’m not saying you’re wrong for WANTING that. But it’s not what they did, is it?
That was my only point.
I’m just annoyed that you keep calling it garrisons, while it’s factually nothing like that.
