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

WoW has a lot more issues than no housing. The fact that it caters to the 1% of the players, has ridiculous forced grinds and engagement mehcanics that don't carry over to alts, borrowed power systems that are constantly removed from the game, and a crap story are bigger factors.

Housing won't help WoW if the core of the game is still bad. Just like if FF14 got suddenly 100 new relic weapons to grind - only those currently engaged with the game would be interested.

They could add palaces, castles with fortresses, wouldnt matter.

I dont play a game where they consider anyone OCE as a fourth class customer. I also dont play a game where the day night cycle is tied to US time. In FF 14 I get to see glorious daylight and stunning vistas..on OCE WOW servers its night all the time.

Blizzard has refused to even DISCUSS the matter for:

SIX

FULL

YEARS

Any and all OCE issues are ignored, brushed aside, even direct questions on issues are ignored by their so called "community managers" who have time to discuss cute pink gnome hair or funny puppy stories, but wont reply to genuine gameplay issues.

WOW is old, out of date, obsolete, its gameplay poor by todays standards, its graphics are primitive and quite frankly, the current Blizzard team are incapable of maintaining any serious quality standards. I did not just leave WOW, i NUKED my Blizzard account.

All of it, gone forever.

The Blizzard team cant be trusted to boil an egg without screwing up.

Well no housing, but a new class combined with a new race, back to roots with a real talent tree, get rid of borrowed power, not to bad. With lich king classic starting end this year also a good move to reduce waiting time for dragon isle.
All in all smart move by Blizzard what probably will bring a lot of players back if casual players will have enough content as well.

I see a lot of people hyped about it. I really hope this is a good expansion launch for them, and a wake up call for SE. I kind of hope they would do housing, as that would also make for good competition.

I never stopped.

Been playing since 2007.

I did cancel my sub when all the news came out but then I re-subbed when the news came out that Microsoft are going to take over next year and that the current CEO will need to leave (which has already happened).
Personally though, I hope they will NOT add housing and instead put more focus and effort into doing things 'right', basically the opposite of what they've been doing for the past 10 years.

Though, I don't put my hopes up too much, an expansion is made in a day and this was/is still heavily influenced with the past leadership. I only hope that once Microsoft takes over they can make it better agtain.

Housing is something I often really enjoy in a game/MMO, but its no way the only reason why I play. It could be one of the reasons why I start playing a game (The customisation options was a big draw and reason why I played Animal Crossing) but despite my disappoint in how housing in FFXIV is gatekept behind luck, its not gonna be a reason for me to switch MMO home.

Besides when it comes to WoW, the Blizzard would need to do ALOT more (Both inside the game and outside) then just improve housing to even get me tempted to return to that world… I would also need a PC that was not basically a potato on support. That would help too.

Seeing WoW implement GW2's award winning momentum-based flying mount system makes me sad that FFXIV will never do the same thing.

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Originally Posted by VelKallor

I dont play a game where they consider anyone OCE as a fourth class customer.

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"OCE"?

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I did not just leave WOW, i NUKED my Blizzard account.


All of it, gone forever.

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Actually, so did I. 11 years completely gone. Couldn't go back without starting all over, and I have no intention of doing that.

No

The whole ethos around WoW of borrowed power you gotta charge up this expansion only to become obsolete next expansion killed it for me.