no no no, the visions of tavern roulette continue to haunt me
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Au contraire, I see a lot of potential for this.
Maybe somebody makes a really good looking and vibing tavern that people like to go to, for example?
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I am hoping housing will reduce the number of “we’re not here IC” whispers sent.
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The roleplayers who would entirely bubble up in their housing units / neighborhoods and never go outside of them would already never roleplay with anybody outside of their social circle as it is. The only thing that’ll change is that the few that are interested in powergaming entire pre-existing canon governments / regions won’t require my acknowledgement.
Roleplayers that just want to roleplay with their friends and no-one else will get a medium that helps them out, and roleplayers that are just trying to get an ego-boost by ignoring the lore so that you are required by law to worship the soil they stand on will get a pacifier - and on top of that, the rest of us are going to get a feature to decorate for events that require dungeons, crypts, or just a home for your character.
I see no downsides.
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I unfortunately agree.
Coming from a game that has housing and an absolutely dead RP community I’ll have to say that it’ll be that and worse.
Housing is like RP’s life support, sure it’ll be fun and will give way to a fun end game activity and you may end up doing some neat E/RP in there but it won’t last.
Old players will eventually get bored and leave because there’s no one on the open world and new players won’t ever find a place to RP at.
RP will devolve into Bars, Cafes, Nightclubs and overall just IMVU (More than what it already it as the moment) and will swiftly fade out instead of slowly.
As RP devolves into absolute cheeks many will eventually leave until there’s only about… 20-30 RPers left that don’t even know the lore of the game because it’s not needed anymore, all you want to know is that it’s a fantasy setting and you’re in a tavern.
So… yeah! That’s what I predict about the future of RP, it’ll be fun to make a house based on your character, sure, but it won’t matter because you won’t get to RP in it due to a lack of other players to RP with since they will all be phased in their own customized instances.
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Which one is that? Because I´d say it´s quite important to say which game formed this opinion of yours for better understanding where that opinion is coming from (and whether it´s valid for AD).
I´m going to take a guess and say it´s FF14, as what you´re describing sounds very much like its RP scene. However, it has been described above by multiple people (including me) why that game is not a good comparison to WoW and its RP scene.
Frankly, plenty of guilds already effectively bubble up, whether it´s only with themselves or their allied guilds during campaigns or server events.
Horde is already in the state that resembles what you´re describing, with very little if any non-guild, non-event RP to the point where instead of hubs they organize weekly gatherings in places such as Crossroads. If you want to main Horde, you pretty much need to find a guild to get regular RP. And it has been like this for years, with occasional attempts to create hubs and infrequent bursts of activity in Orgrimmar. And yet it still has multiple guilds, including some race-specific ones.
If we´re talking about Stormwind RP, yeah, kinda, but do we actually care? If anything, it might be seen as good thing by some, as it will allow Stormwind to be used for events and more Stormwind-like RP by guilds and more serious RPers, without having to run into 15 meters tall dracthyr or DH bartenders, as those will be (assuming your scenario is true) in housing districts.
Well, Horde RP didn´t become that. If anything, the lack of RP hub like Stormwind and the RP that´s usually associated with them lead some of them to view Horde RP as higher quality than Alliance because its open world is left to the guilds and more serious RPers.
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After your posts in “How do I get into Roleplay?” and you playing on Epsilon I’m not sure how serious I’m going to take your opinion.
You seem to just wish to doompost about Argent Dawn RP at any good point you can.
I won’t be able to add much more to the thread itself, I basically agree with everything Acrona said and I’m looking forward to housing.
This is coming from someone who probably won’t use it at all, but something that adds more options to RPers can only be a good thing in my book.
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Now I remember why that name sounded familiar.
Yeah, their opinion can be safely discarded then.
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Yup. Dead. RP gone.
Garrisons did it first. We haven’t left them since.
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One can only hope.
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I’m tired boss, I’m trying 
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I see housing as a way to get some more Life back into RP.
As a Horde Player myself, Guild RP, Event Rp and Gatherings compared to the sadly very rare open walk up rp is more than common.
With housing providing us an RP space not that far from other RP hubs (Orgrimmar, Stormwind) is a good thing.
The only two big downsides i can see are:
The restriction of the Neighbourhood cap and the Open/Guild intern hoods, as well as the “one House per account, NOT per character” rule.
My Tauren will not like it in Stormwind, and my Worgen doesn’t like Orgrimmar as a housing place.
Hopefully Blizzard can remove that restriction and let us have House in all the current and upcoming places fit to our RP, Race flavour and playstyle.
I wish for some Pirate Neighbourhoods, or Vulpera Caravan Campsites in the future, altough i fear as a Vulpera Main RP player, i have to wait a few years till everyone else has their turn.
atleast we got our Heritage armor before Pandaren did, still waiting for that one Blizz (sidenote)
Horde RP is dead?
I knew these people in Orgrimmar yesterday were hallucinations!
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I can foresee this being an issue once we learn more about Guild neighbourhoods. I bet initially guilds will encourage people to put their houses in the guild neighbourhood. For that ‘town’ or ‘base’ aspect of RP between missions. But that would put people in a difficult position. Houses are personal to the characters, and my orc would have a very different house to my human, both in style and scale.
I hope housing is nice looking and people have fun with it, the proof of concepts posted looked very promising and reminiscent of the Wildstar system, thats neat.
Some people will use housing for RP, absolutely, but I don’t think houses will be large enough to accomodate large events and will be boiled down to thematic social evenings bar rp style. That depends on how accessible guild neighbourhoods are and whatnot too. There’s a lot of charm in RPing in the open, and no matter how pretty a house looks I would rather RP in Moonglade rather than Make-Believe Moonglade.
RP housing fills a nice niche of acting as a zoom-in, make a home in the world and say its val’sharah. But it shouldn’t be so grandiose as to intrude upon open world RP or draw people away into their own phased bubbles too hard.
Personally I’ve no real plans to use it for RP, and treat myself to just building a nice looking goldsink.
Based on blizzards posts I don’t think it is one house per account:
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I hope it’s not super restrictive. There’s probably at least half a dozen of my characters I’d want individual plots for, if not more. Not even because I plan to relegate all my RP to there, far from it; just having the space is nice, immersive and if I do want it, I’ve got it.
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Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!
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As someone whose character is supposed to be from Elwynn Forest, and can yet NEVER RP there for reasons we all know and dread, the quoted statement fills me with nothing but hope, satifaction and a smidge of Joy.
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I think this is the only place where they say ‘houses’. No where else have I seen them mention ‘houses’. I don’t think they have revealed explicitly you can have more than one house. We don’t know if they mean houses, or this was in error.