Housing in World of Warcraft

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Originally Posted by MsQi

It'll probably be really basic, and WoW players have such low expectations at this point they'll love it.



Quite the opposite I'm sure. Microsoft is a corporation and seems to have been tightening the purse strings.

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They plan to sell lots of virtual furniture for cash.

More information is required to determine whenever that is a proper housing the players receive, or just a repacked garrison system.
For now, it does feel a bit like a 'Break glass in case of critical player trust' - moment.

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Originally Posted by Hyperia

With Microsoft taking over and their deep pockets, the WoW team has received a lot of cash infusions along with the removal of corporate interference in the game.

I am watching what is going on over there with curiosity.

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A lot of the higher ups that only care about money are still there even after the buyout. Recent patches have been rushed out as awful buggy messes and the cash shop is just as bad as FF14's.

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Originally Posted by Astronema

They plan to sell lots of virtual furniture for cash.

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Very much so. Blizzard's been so stingy with giving out cosmetics in WoW and OW2 lately and much rather sell them for real life money, they'll definitely monetize the hell out of housing.

Difference : Yoshi P - "We need to go on the attack" actual quote from an interview when he said they had like 3 other titles on the make= Focus on multiple titles, dividing budget and staff, making for 5 month patches with minimal repeat content.

Blizz: "We need to go on the attack = Focus on WoW with a clear roadmap, teasing new features.

I reckon its staff, budget and bad direction / corpo meddling which includes Yoshi P

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Originally Posted by Astronema

They plan to sell lots of virtual furniture for cash.

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Ffxiv has a cash shop for housing items, dyes, mounts, glams, orchestrions, emotes, HOUSING ITEMs, level and story skips, retainer skips, 5 euro inventory space addition + extra return point and remote marketboard albeit limited to kupo nuts. Dont remember if you can buy those for cash too.

Difference : Yoshi P - "We need to go on the attack" actual quote from an interview when he said they had like 3 other titles on the make= Focus on multiple titles, dividing budget and staff, making for 5 month patches with minimal repeat content.

Blizz: "We need to go on the attack = Focus on WoW with a clear roadmap, teasing new features.

I reckon its staff, budget and bad direction / corpo meddling which includes Yoshi P

It's not just housing that's coming to WoW. Blizzard is also launching a completely new game and judging by the trailer, it's actually pretty good. The new game is called Avowed. And my first thought was, I'm totally in.

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Originally Posted by Renaclock

I mean its literally the truth.
This game is built on a engine that has so many limitations and changing that is basically remaking the game.

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Meanwhile WoW is built on over a 20 years old engine without much limitations.

In all my years playing WoW, I never really saw anyone bringing up the engine unless it's the same talk as (We need WoW 2 to fix the game direction and start fresh again!)

Oops. Doublepost. The main argument probably will be "Well thats WoW, different game, go play that and unsub if youre unhappy"

People forget when they made ARR they looked at WoW and other competitors. He even made the devs play WoW. You look at what your competition does at all times, put your own twist on things and INNOVATE. Hell sometimes you even straight up steal content and make it better.

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Originally Posted by Hallarem

Blizz: "We need to go on the attack = Focus on WoW with a clear roadmap, teasing new features.

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They are not focusing on WoW. They have content coming, but the game is not being maintained well. They have a dozen other projects, and WoW is literally falling apart, data being lost, and content is inaccessible. They have been laying off like crazy this year.