Neither do they say that you’re limited to a single house either, in any case it’s wrong to come out and state it like one or the other is fact.
They’ve mentioned in one of their preview posts that your horde characters can visit your Alliance house(s?) and vice versa, which seems to suggest that “one house per neighbourhood” could also be an option
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I’ve said this for years, Blizzard needs to stop trying to appeal to a younger generation that simply do not exist in the game. They could afford to raise the age rating to 16+ at least as well, instead of having this weird sort of weird para-puritanical irk and ick when dealing with quite literally -War-, a quite mature topic.
As you also said Classic saved the franchise, and Classic still has robust and active playerbases, though again about 9/10 of these players are at least 30+ in age (myself included) and many, MANY are even in the latter half of their 40s playing.
Housing is for sure a good cross generational thing to pull in people but Blizzard really does need to look back at the old paradigms and work them into the game world.
What baffles me is why we have no option to use classic zones, when they’re all quite literally sitting there in the game files. If they are supposedly trying to appeal to -all- players, which by that I mean it’s a tacit “sorry roleplayers, we forgot you are our most loyal players who have stayed with us through EVERY blunder we made” they have a trove of old assets.
It would be as easy as a toggle setting or if they want to be obtuse, as they’re wont to, stick a bronze dragon npc in various capitals who can shift the entire continent to its classic phase or modern phase.
If that’s the case, that would be awesome. Honestly I want as fewer restrictions as possible!
Yea, it’s kinda tough to say at this point, because I don’t even think Blizz knows yet where they’re going to have the limit.
Having one house per character sounds like an IMMENSE amount of additional data for them to store, just having stuff like furniture placement etc. on the server. Given, it’s just numbers in a database, but it’s gonna be at worst 50x[Furniture Limit] extra rows.
I think we will at least get 1 house per neighborhood, with new neighborhoods steadily opening up as the system matures
The classic zones aren’t built for flying though? the “new” cataclysm zones are, but they are incomplete because Blizzard didn’t have enough time to finish them (Arathi says hello), if anything we need the zones to be fully updated again, but alas.
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I very much doubt housing will kill RP, it will just put the pople who didnt wnat to interact with anyone else into their own slots and if it purges Goldshire, good. it might become a place you can actully go and Roleplay at again.
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Where does it say in the RP instruction manual you need to fly?
Nothing. It’s up to the older roleplayers to teach the beginners. It’s not Housing that’ll kill RP, it’ll be the lack of teachers.
Housing will just bring one more instance to the game, a better one, after that it’ll depend how the community organizes itself around it.
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nowhere, however we are not the ONLY people who plays in the world or accesses world of Warcraft, so blizzard tends to chose often than not what would be best for the majority of players.
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I think it’ll depend on how large the houses are. I suspect they’ll be quite small personally.
Whilst housing certainly did contribute to the death of casual open world rp in a certain other game, that game and WoW are very different.
The zones are designed for better rp access, either by design or accident. At least the cata era and before zones.
I highly doubt housing will have a overly large long term effect on rp as we know it. Guilds that want to fight gnolls will still have to go out and fight gnolls, Booty Bay will still desperately try and be a thing etc
That said I’m pretty sure (again depending on size, who we can invite and so many other unkown factors) we’re going to see housing used for a lot of stuff we can do in the open world but often have to jossle for space for, inns, clubs etc. So -that- side will probably lessen a bit in terms of visiblity if blizzard go all in, but it’ll still be there.
Doubt it, maybe for a little while while the houses are still a novelty. But people go back to what they are familiar with I suppose.
No need to suspect, you have a good idea how big they are from some screenshots.
Presumably, since you can have ten rooms, you probably could quite literally just have stairs going up and up and up into 10 different open-floor rooms. Meaning you could have a theoretical total of 10 floors which is pretty crazy for the smallest house.
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Fair, I hadn’t seen them. Then yeah I for sure think we’ll see them used as public inns/bars etc, invites allowing etc.
Good to know I have an active and fervent fanbase but please keep your fanatism of me to yourself it’s not funny nor quirky, it’s creepy
Thank you.
Bringing things that I wrote about a year or more ago is not healthy.
Sir, it’s been two months.
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ENOUGH with the clown!
Potato, tomato, it’s obvious you’re more invested in this than I am for you to know exactly when it happened.
As I said, fervorous stalker fanbase, doesn’t suit you guys well
Normally I would just ignore this but I don’t like being called a stalker.
Calling someone a stalker because they can remember something you wrote two months ago is a bit wild.
This is a public forum, everything you write is public and can easily be found in your activity on your profile unless you make it private, so if you don’t like that then perhaps you should.
The only reason I remember it is because you were so extremely negative about the RP on Argent Dawn in a time where the forums has gotten a lot more positive so it stood out like a sore thumb.
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The death of patience is when every single thread gets turned into Drama Central… get a grip, ‘adults’.
It’s human to argue and be dramatic at any age.
I’m hoping to not see too much “get X from raid/achieve” furniture
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