If your idea of divided is 5% against and 95% neutral or in favour, sure.
The playerbase is more divided about what features it should have. 
Oh shoot, I responded. My bad.
Probably the best housing system i’ve experienced in any mmo.
The possibility were endless, you could change the weather/sky, make your home public for everyone to visit, and more. I even turned mine into a giant jump puzzle game, which was really cool. I could play Wildstar again just for the housing system and spend all night to do for work on my cozy home sweet home.
What i would like to see on wow is something similar to Wildstar in terms of possibility ( Garden + Inside the house ) But with the neightborhood system of FF14.
Also, even tought blizzard said at the start there will be only 2 place available. I wish they will give us more home customization choices.
- Tombs for undead
- Caravan for Vulpera
- Underground / Hobbit house for dwarves
- Burned tree for Night elf
- Pet cage for gnomes
- And much more.
Oh and this :
*Neutral housing zones in Booty Bay and Pandaria.
or
- private island for people who want to live isolated ( Like the one in south of Tanaris before cataclysm or some island in the Azure span )
- Also Private ship maybe ?
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I agree. All this Focus on Mythic Plus and Raids are nothing but a betrayel. Before the game whas so nice slow and casual and they made the game so hard and stressfull while we had to wait so long for a relaxed, casual and social feature like this so long.
I agree. They should just sent Mythic and Mythic Plus into retirment and focus on making a nice enjoyable storymode of Raids instead.
I find it funny that everyone comes up with tombs for forsaken.
And I get it but if I where dead and came back as an undead the very last thing I would want to live in is something that reminds me of the fact that I’m dead ^^
Just because a load of AI bots on reddit have been pushing for this.
You’re probably right, maybe something similar to Tirisfal Glades or the Landing Vengeance building would be better for the Undead.
I think it’s more that the headline offers a world of possibilities, and everyone imagines their own dream version of it. And Blizzard are happy to let that hype train run its course.
Like Hero Talents.
When it’s just presented as a cool headline it allows players to get hyped about it, because it’s easy to imagine a lot of awesome possibilities for what Hero Talents can be.
It’s the same with Housing.
It’s such a broad concept that players can think up a myriad of different ideas and fantasies for Housing. And everyone’s hyped because they imagine something along their own ideas and dreams will come to fruition.
But the reality of what Blizzard ultimately implements into the game, tends to fall short of the player hype they themselves encourage.
I think the sneak-peak they’ve given into the early concept for Housing shows that. That clearly crushed some players’ dreams.
But it’s still the hype phase where players imagine way beyond what Blizzard are typically able to deliver on. It’s the dreams that get upvoted.
I mean yeah I like to imagine what could be possible. Because I rather look forward to somthing then be disappointed by it.
Nah the whole fact that it is going to be possible is what hypes me. Just alone with Orc and human I have two of my most important RP character covered. And if Quel’thalas and Ashenvale will be also added (which I am convinced that they are going to be because of Midnight and because the Elves are the most played races in WoW) then I will have even more fun and even if just one house per Zone will be possible it would at least cover the bare minimum for me. But it does not mean I would like to have more. Because just the possibilities of how my characters would have their houses, this to discover and find out would be one of the best features in WoW for me.
Sure, and not to dismiss what you’re saying, but the playerbase at large are branching out a lot on this topic with regards to ideas, suggestions, hopes, and dreams.
It’s cool if you feel that you are covered and therefore happy, but Blizzard will ultimately struggle to cover the desires of the playerbase at large. There is just too much on the wish list for that to be possible.
So it’s more a question of whether Blizzard can manage player expectations so that they generally end up happy with the final product – even if it isn’t exactly what they hoped for – and not super disappointed because it isn’t what they imagined Housing would be.
And offering insight into the development process as it goes along, is probably going to help manage those player expectations better than withholding the grand reveal until the last minute. So hopefully Blizzard intends to offer more sneak peaks as time goes on.
Ultimately though, the final product is not going to be as enthusiastically cheered as the initial hype for the announcement. Again, the headline of Housing offers way more possibilities than what Blizzard will ultimately be able to deliver upon.
It’s a shame, we’re seeing Blizz fail over and over again whilst chasing these silly ideas.
People will soon wise up to this, and the game will be dead.
I don’t think it’ll be that doom and gloom.
Typically the players are well-served if they get more stuff.
There’s no stuff that’s to everyone’s liking, but any stuff is always to someone’s liking.
And Housing will also be to someone’s liking.
It’ll probably fall short of the initial excitement and hype over the announcement, but that doesn’t mean that the final implementation will be a disaster.
Modern Blizzard strikes me as safe and steady, in that they tend to release features that aren’t terrible or upsetting, but also not exciting or amazing. They’re just kind of okay.
And that’s sort of my impression of Housing so far. They’re doing something, but they’re not going all-out on this or taking huge risks. It’ll be a feature, and it’ll be something some players will enjoy, but it’s not going to blow everyone away or transform or evolve the game into something entirely new.
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I’m not really sure why they went with it at all. It doesn’t feel very WoW.
Other MMORPGs have it. Some WoW players want it. Blizzard needs new headline features for expansions that can push sales. It has monetization potential. It covers the bill - litterally.
Just makes the game worse for other people.
Anyway, I’m just here to say they shouldn’t do it.
I don’t care enough to discuss it. I’m not renewing my sub again because of it.
No it doesn’t. You can ignore it if you’re not interested in it.
I don’t know. I think Blizzard frames Housing as being very optional. It’s there for those who want to dabble with it, but if that’s not you, then you can just ignore it.
That’s both good and bad, because it makes it a very isolated and to some degree pointless addition to the game, but at the same time it doesn’t offend or force anyone to engage with it if they don’t want to.
And then I suppose there’s the whole hypothetical aspect of what Blizzard could have done instead of doing Housing. Because it’s ultimately a lot of development resources being put into this feature (which also has to be maintained and developed upon going forward). And that obviously comes at the expense of something else Blizzard could have done. And there’s a fair discussion to be had about whether Housing is the best feature Blizzard could be making for WoW or if something else would have been better.
But I wouldn’t say it makes the game worse in any way. Worst-case scenario is that you dont like it, proceed to ignore it, and find yourself left with the same expansion product as always – 1 raid, 8 dungeons, 4 zones, or something along those lines.
We have been over this.
It Development time taken away from other parts of the game.
Midnight now looks like it will be coming with no worthwhile expansion features. At least Delves/Torghast/Island Expeditions were designed with everyone in mind. They were appealing reasons to play an expansion.
When you have enjoyed the game as a whole for so many years, and they all of a sudden veer off and produce something like this, it feels really bad to sudden have a whole part of the game that you don’t want to play. Even if the old stuff still exists, it feels like I’m getting alot value for my money.
It used to be 100% of a game, now it’s down to 70% of the game that I’ll get to enjoy.
That feels awful.
It’s time to look for a new game, which I can enjoy through and through.
It’s such a bad change, they shouldn’t have betrayed their players like this.
We have indeed and you haven’t listened.
No it’s not. There’s a seperate team working on it.
It’s ridiculous that you expect to enjoy 100% of WoW. Sorry, but this is truly a ‘you’ problem.
Also: I really doubt that you’ve done 100% of WoW’s content.
Also also: At the end of the day, your opinion doesn’t matter.
They are doing player housing. End of discussion.
You can unsub. That’s fine.
I myself might unsub for a while soon because I object to DRIVE and being underground for another 6 months and because the actual Worldsoul Saga doesn’t seem to be going anywhere - are we really doing months of Goblin stories now? Sorry, but I don’t care about that. I like goblins, but I don’t want to have ‘their race experience’. I would play a goblin if I wanted that.
So yeah, it’s the way we as customers can let our displeasure be heard. But they are not going to cancel player housing nor DRIVE in the end.
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By this argument I could also say, they could just stop doing Mythic and Hero Raids which only see 7% and 2% of thee playerbase and Mythic + which just encourages a toxic rush and rather put recources into more delves, a better solo scenario even for Raids and more Roleplayfeatures like this Housing all the Raids and Mythic + are just dead content which take away time and recources which could be used for more story content like scenarios.
If you just want Raid or Die you can play Classic.
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M+ and Hero Raids were actually built on top of what we already had, and how the game was already played by its player base.
It was a natural progression path. Playerhousing is completely left field and out of nowhere. It makes no sense in the game World of Warcraft was and developed to be over time.
Whilst I do think WoW was a better game before M+ and Raiding, both deserve their place in the game way more than Player housing.
Some MMOs went down the PH route years ago. WoW went down the Esports route, and came out on top. PH will kill WoW, just watch.
That’s not really a solution. I played Classic when it was Vanilla. Like many other players, we want new content, not the same stuff for 20 years.
WoW wasn’t aimed towards roleplayers though. It was always designed around Action and Progression. There are plenty of MMO’s which doing Roleplaying really well.
Putting it into WoW is just pushing what was their committed player base further away and favouring players who will just end up going back to their previous game because WoW will be dead and empty.