Just a concern really. We were stuck in our garrisons on Draenor. Don’t get me wrong I’m excited for housing but I love the hustle and bustle of seeing everyone else hanging out in the main cities and feel like everyone will be gone. What are you guys’ takes?
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I believe those times are gone already, I think the auction house mounts are more threatening to this, you can find your favorite spot in Grizzly Hills and be done with everything already.
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Only thing i’m worried about player housing is that it’s not gonna be a WOD 2.0
Cause i remember HYPE about it and it went left pretty fast 
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Make them less crowded? Well yes, it makes sense.
Assuming they’ll have functionality, if they don’t they won’t.
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I don’t know and I honestly don’t care, it’s not like I interact with other players anyway already.
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My impression is that housing will have few (if any) gameplay conveniences. So I’m not super worried the major hubs will simply depopulate.
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This argument again?
It won’t.
Every single MMO that introduced housing has bustling main hubs.
Housing is not going to change anything for raid/key loggers.
If people aren’t interacting with the game world now,. it won’t change anything.
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If anything, it might make them busier if portals to housing areas are located in capitals. They’ll become meet up spaces
The garrison destroyed WoD. Housing cannot destroy the open world because the open world is already destroyed.
What it does do is invest players into a system that destroys the world, and it does so with transmog, which does not age the way the garrison did - which means that should Blizzard ever come to its senses and try to fix this, they’re going to summon a riot upon themselves.
This is a really, really, really bad idea - but I don’t know what can possibly be done about it now. It is announced, people are expecting it, 99% of people don’t understand why or how MMO’s work (and I only do because the old Blizzard team straight up told me in person) so none of them oppose it.
WoW just got ESO’d.
Now you might say - what’s so bad Apple that? ESO is a great game!
Yes, but it’s not a great MMO. The best part of that game is to simply play it like you would Skyrim, but it’s bigger.
exactly this
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Perhaps it is the side effect of just waking up, but I genuinely have no understanding as to what you just said.
Anyway, as far as housing making the hubs more desolate: For Roleplaying servers? Possibly, with very clique-based players hiding away in their houses I can certainly see that.
As far as the rest of the game goes? I kinda doubt it, unless player houses come with all the goodies that makes Dornogal the current hub to stay in.
It is not just you, have read the post a few times now, and the whole thing about transmog ageing and and such i do not understand. But then again, i only have room temprature IQ.
Maybe this guy is just big galaxy brain, and his thoughts are just so sensible and smart that us normal midwits dont get it… ?
Housing just needs to be purely cosmetic and zero utiliy. So people will have reason to go to cities.
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One utility.
Mailbox…
All houses need a mailbox
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I would say thas fair since every little unimportant outpost also has a mailbox
Make houses /apartments inside the citys🙉
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Wow is still a mmorpg but the social aspects have changed over the last ten years.
Where people used to look to be social with strangers in the past they now prefer to be social in their own little social bubbles shunning outsiders.
So imo social hubs like cities have been largely dead for a few years now.
Housing if done right will be a move towards the changing social scope of mmorpgs.
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I don’t think so. Housing wouldn’t have any functionality (besides a mail box and maybe some storage? -not even bank access, maybe just something akin to a bag space that you can access in your home); so you still have to go out there to actually ‘do stuff’.
Same
Ye, same. Only time will tell.