Will you start/go back to playing WoW if they add housing in the next expac?

I can't go back to wow, as I m still playing it (TBC classic) #5head

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Originally Posted by HollowedDoll

Perhaps I'm in a minority but even if someone paid me I would not want to play World of Warcraft at this point.

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I just can't agree more. I won't support things that support sexual harassment, and toxic environments. If the game doesn't have their own employees back in such a situation, then how can I trust them to deal with my problems. I've been harassed in games before, and stalked. There's plenty of stigma about such situations, but it should be taken seriously. One of those incidents led to said player following me in real life. I'm glad it was XIV, and not WoW, because I don't think WoW would have cared. I quit as soon as the allegations happened.

I quit back in Mists of Pandaria and haven't looked back. The only thing I really miss from it are the large epic raid dungeons.

FF14 allows me to go at my own pace and I'm not going to jump ship because of a few bugs or because other people don't how their class plays. WoW's had far worse bugs over the years and also suffers from class balance.

I don't think Blizzard would be able to pull any decent housing even being optimistic about the game designers. The workload needed to make it work after multiple expansions and the amount of time they would need adding more elements to the housing system has little chance to pay off. Either the games comes with housing early on integrated within the base game or it doesn't.

So, even if they added housing, I don't think it would factor in my decision of coming back to WoW, though I technically never "abandoned" it to begin with as I usually tend to go back and forth. I got things I like/dislike from each game.

Even if you bought me all of the expansions I'm behind on, paid my sub, and bought me a new PC to play it on, I still wouldn't be interested in going back to WoW, housing or no.

Half curious if my characters even still exist, come to think of it. How long does Blizzard retain them once you stop paying? I'd check but I don't even remember what server I was on.

No, I don’t think I ever could go back. The same reason why I stopped playing Dead By Daylight; When you play a game and find yourself getting more angry than you are having fun, it really makes you wonder if it’s worth the subscription. In the end, you realise you only played it out of habit.

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Originally Posted by TheMightyMollusk

Even if you bought me all of the expansions I'm behind on, paid my sub, and bought me a new PC to play it on, I still wouldn't be interested in going back to WoW, housing or no.

Half curious if my characters even still exist, come to think of it. How long does Blizzard retain them once you stop paying? I'd check but I don't even remember what server I was on.

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Characters are never deleted. They may force a name change on a level 1 alt because someone wants to use that name, but when I checked it out during the free weekend before Shadowlands I still had old level 1 characters I made back in vanilla.

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Originally Posted by TheMightyMollusk

Even if you bought me all of the expansions I'm behind on, paid my sub, and bought me a new PC to play it on, I still wouldn't be interested in going back to WoW, housing or no.

Half curious if my characters even still exist, come to think of it. How long does Blizzard retain them once you stop paying? I'd check but I don't even remember what server I was on.

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They always stay. Only thing that happens is they get delisted from the Armory iirc. The only thing Blizzard doesn't retain is data from low level characters you delete, after a period of time.

They couldn't pay me enough to play that game regardless of what they add.

If you like WoW, good for you, seriously, enjoy it and have a good time. It's not a game I have any interest in every playing.

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Originally Posted by Snowdove

Just curious how much housing is a draw for people.

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no until they add cat girls