thanks for writing this - basically my thoughts but I cba to materialize it in such a manner - mostly because I knew I’d face dejarous and friends defying me as usual.
Actually I think they noticed players spending time in the character selection screen - because so many people complain about the campsite being not customizable enough - fast forward and they decided that people might just want to spend time with their character doing nothing in a customized room.
ez pz - now just add your warband walking around and those andies will never leave the housing.
Oh yeah, the business case for Housing and the design angle on it is pretty obvious. Again as someone who has no interest in Housing, it did become pretty obvious even a few years ago that Blizzard would eventually do Housing. I think everyone saw this feature coming a mile away, for the reasons you outline and many more.
And I’m also sure it’ll be a great success and a lot of people will enjoy it and sink a ton of hours into it (and spend a lot of money on it as well).
What I’m mostly curious to see is how many players will have absolutely no interest in it, and how big the chasm between those and everyone else will be.
It’s like Punyelf says it is with PvP for her. It’s there but she has no interest in it.
I think Housing will be the same. Some will be really into it, others a little bit, and then there are those who will have zero interest in it.
It’ll just be interesting to see how many players will fall into either category. Blizzard must have done some research on that since they’re so invested in it already.
My house looks like the bacholer pad meme. I spend zero on decorative things. If everyone was like me there would be zero market for buying unless clutter, yet there is a huge market for it.
I only have a second couch because my family visited once and had no place to sit. I hate it though.
If Housing had been introduced in Vanilla? Absolutely. It would have fit the sandbox style of gameplay just about perfectly.
But today? WoW plays like Diablo IV. You log in, you do world quests or dungeons or raids or PvP. It’s not really a game where you “hang around” anymore. It’s an objective-driven game of optimizing performance and progressing difficulties.
But maybe players will embrace Housing like they embraced Classic WoW. A yearning for something else than the rat race. It’s certainly possible.
No doubt about it. There are a ton of crafting survival games out there, not to mention the increasing plethora of Sims-like games.
Huge audience for it.
But is that audience in WoW?
We’ll see.
Tbh it does take a big chunk of overall subscription time to just be looking for a group and/or be accepted to a dungeon run so while we are spending a lot of time just idling around, why not just do it in a surrounding we ourselves have designed?
=)
If I am not doing anything, but it is at least beautiful, I feel better.
Btw, after housing I think we should do marriages and relationships.
im one of those who is excited for housing, but i am also thinking what if housing is their only hit in midnight, i hope not, remember how the game changed completely, every part of the game had something new with the release of DF, new flight mechanic, new profession systems, new skill systems and so on, after getting so many new stuff in DF, it is normal that we feel we got nothing new in TWW, i hope housing wont be the only exciting thing about midnight expansion and the rest like copy paste from previous expansions like TWW
I think they talked about that in the Taliesin video? That it’d be a cool idea if players could arrange events and happenings in that neighborhood design that they’re not really ready to talk about but which obviously seems to lean into their “social” goal.
So we’ll see.
The people having edited by moderator in the deeprun tram station are going to be overjoyed.
idea - once you marry another “warband” - your gold is now accounted together - the other spouse can spend it freely. Your warband becomes common as well.
when you divorce - you divide it in half, including contents of your bank.
You also pay a hefty fee to a goblin lawyer conducting the divorce. Also - you have to pay alimonies on your spouse’s battle pets.
Wildstar, SWTOR, BDO, DC universe online All have/had Decent housing.
But it’s just not a system i care about.
I just don’t have the patience to place items and decide where they go, change size/shape/location and eventually come out with an insane build that looks amazing.
just wrong, there are far more people who like to log in collect, rp etc, and do what you think is mundane stuff. They outnumber everyone else. which is why you now see more solo and world content, which is why we are getting housing.
Huge communities swill be built around housing and players across the gaming world who create will come to wow.
