Hello Blizz and Fellow players. I have looked at the announcings about playerhousing. aswell as watched interviews and wowtubers comments on the system.
And while i find the idea super fun and interesting i m conserned about the idea of an Community driving the neighborhood as this does not match Retail like it is today.
Back in WOD we all complained about Garrisons because they cut of the social aspect of the game. But since then we have gotten less players to play with. Realms have died down. Boosting have become a highly accepted thing. World quests / world events have become a (HEY COME DO THIS EVENT AND GET SHINY LOOT!) so people sweep in slaps mobs for 3 mins and poof gone… day 2 of the same week no one does the events. a month later no one does it at all because they dont need what it offers.
So this is what blizz have made World of Warcraft into… Now they come with the idea that an community and teamwork should help make a Neighborhood lively. Decorated. Fun… well that will be a massive flop and i highly recomend blizz to rethink this idea as it will not work in the long run. If i on a dead realm have to depend on others to help me decorate for Hallows end then i wont see the decorating happen. Because most players these days dont do world stuff unless it makes them stronger or give a fun mount…
So please dont go trough with the idea. Let me work and do my part to decorate and make it an actual rewarding event if people gonna actualy help out getting the Hoods decorated.
If others have a difrent opinion then i would like to hear so. But to me Hallows end. Noble garden. Xmas none of these events have participants unless it is new rewards yearly. And i fear it will hit hard against Playerhousing community if we take it to the players to make stuff happen.
Now when it comes to room amount and npc’s in the Hood.the number of 10 rooms sounds abit odd. Now i have heard the rooms are insanely big and that you can take 1 room and make it into 3 rooms. But it still sounds like a odd number and surely can be increased abit more?. And i personaly would like to see some npc’s always being there. as i have understood it they come and go and dont stay around in the Hoods. so at times i assume it will be very dead in the hoods. And lastly I would like to see my own characters inside my house going around when i m on my Main. this would give more life to my warband.
I mean there probably will be rewards for those community events.
And the fact that you can hop neighbourhoods if you don’t like your current one will overtime curate the neighbourhoods.
The players that do not really care will stay in there neighbourhood and those that look for people that actually use the neighborhood will hop till they are happy.
That should atleast in theory over time bring like minded people together
Your last wish is probably not gonna happen since that house is for all you war band chars.
The only way this could happen is if blizz let’s us place ALTs down as decor npcs
And that Theory would indeed be likely corect. But then we gotta take into account that they do not mix RP and PVE realms sharding wise. So i will have to group up into someone else’s realm and that wont benefit me on my realm as they stated that it will be a fine line betwen those type of realms as there are difrent social rules on the realms.
But it likely wont be a problem if they corectly place every RP realm into the hoods and not just the merged realms that are. But that again isnt a 100% thing that they will do.
Because many players like me likes seeing a ghost realm. I like having rares to myself i like experiencing the story without Billy and Bob standing ontop of quest mobs with their stupid Brutosaurs. But with players liking this it will clash to make a community based theme in the hoods. it is just conserning and we desperatly need to get this system up on the PTR asap so people can check and speak their conserns.
I mean… i dont realy need much more than that. Having my characters sitting around in the living room looking like they interact is enough to make it more lively even if i gotta place them there myself.
While I agree that the social aspect is by far the weakest link in what they’ve shown of housing so far; it can be easily fixed by scaling it properly.
For example:
You want some halloween decoration rewards from a neighbourhood halloween event:
In a 50 player neightbourhood the required ‘activity’ (whatever this may be; from quests done to materials provided, etc) is high.
These requirements should go down for neighbourhoods that have less occupants. And for people who have a solo neighbourhood, they should be able to get the required number in a solo way.
That would alleviate several issues that could arise from them pushing this social agenda.
I think they can. They’ve been doing a fairly good job with their world event scaling (I’m of course not talking about the bucket load of other issues these events have ).
I was just thinking of the pre event with the memories.
There where legions of people just standing there but the game said “look at all those people better skale up the boss hp so it doesn’t die to fast”
And then you had a slog -.-
I mean… Blizzard wants wow to be social in the end, and it’s a MMO. If wow is not social currently, Blizzard wants obviously to increase social behaviour/interactions somehow.
I think the biggest reason wow has gotten less social is boosting communities, because they have turned all content into a market and have put a monetary price behind every accomplishment. Second biggest reason is Metagaming/Esports, because that made people view communities/guilds/etc. as ladders instead of social friend groups.
The way I understood that is that you per default are in a public one and then you can decide to switch to a guild or community or friend neighbourhood.
And you can of course have your own neighbourhood but that is then empty if you don’t put friends in there
That sounds weird. Why per faction? I mean in the initial post they said your characters could have a house in the opposite faction as long as a character from that faction bought/unlocked/build the house.
They went with 1 house per faction because it was easier as a first stage release. Keep in mind they have spoken about giving new areas to house later in expancions. So what we get now is a smaller version so 1 house per faction and 10 rooms in those houses. But the rooms are insanely large so you can divide it up to smaller rooms. Think of Goldshire inn… the entire building there is 1 room in your house.
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