Tell me again why we can't have instanced housing?

[Darthgummibear]

Except that we know that the current housing is built across multiple servers, and we know that Islands are not going to be 'housing'. From what we've learned (which is very little) you will not be able to put a single housing item on your Island. It isn't built for that purpose. I anticipate something very close to the Garrisons from Warlords of Draenor in World of Warcraft.

So, you can rant and rave all you want, but if you want something like the current housing, it is dependent on limited infrastructure.

A complete change in that architecture will be required to provide everyone with what you wish for as "instanced housing". And that is going to take time and future infrastructure purchases to assure the 5-15+ million players who want to be able to leave the game and come back 5 years later that their house is still available.

This is a completely bunk argument. The island sanctuaries already have multiple functions and systems NOT PRESENT IN HOUSING. Defending a deliberate choice to omit instanced housing when they obviously could have done it by now at best positions you as the perfect customer.

[DPZ2]

Defending a deliberate choice to omit instanced housing when they obviously could have done it by now at best positions you as the perfect customer.

Perhaps I am the perfect customer for this game, and you are not. Are you going to go play another game that has the housing you yearn for, or are you going to stay here?

I have 35+ years of experience as a Computer Infrastructure Engineer. Declaring what I actually wrote (rather than what you think you read) as "bunk" is nothing more than you spouting nonsense.

[Gunbladesman]

Perhaps I am the perfect customer for this game, and you are not. Are you going to go play another game that has the housing you yearn for, or are you going to stay here?

I have 35+ years of experience as a Computer Infrastructure Engineer. Declaring what I actually wrote (rather than what you think you read) as "bunk" is nothing more than you spouting nonsense.

Facts and logic'd him epic! Settling for mediocrity and not expecting the best from a game doing as well as this does make you the perfect customer since you will just deal with what they give you and never expect more.

[DPZ2]

Facts and logic'd him epic! Settling for mediocrity and not expecting the best from a game doing as well as this does make you the perfect customer since you will just deal with what they give you and never expect more.

Did you read what I wrote earlier or are you just responding to my current post?

Are you one of those people who Want It Now! and get ticked off when that doesn't happen immediately? Or do you like to take a rational approach to how to get from here to there? Your current comment appears to me to be the former, but then I have nothing to go on other than your current post.

[Gunbladesman]

Housing has been out since what 2014? And due to the decision to stick to wanting that "neighborhood feel" the players have suffered at the refusal to acknowledge the fact that it doesn't really exist. Maybe island sanctuaries are them testing the waters for instanced housing but I think anyone who has been playing long enough knows that's not the case. They can't/won't do instanced housing but we can have this whole instanced island for EVERY player.

[DPZ2]

Maybe island sanctuaries are them testing the waters for instanced housing but I think anyone who has been playing long enough knows that's not the case. They can't/won't do instanced housing but we can have this whole instanced island for EVERY player.

It's almost like someone wrote something like "we know that Islands are not going to be 'housing'. From what we've learned (which is very little) you will not be able to put a single housing item on your Island. It isn't built for that purpose. I anticipate something very close to the Garrisons from Warlords of Draenor in World of Warcraft."

I spent months getting my Garrisons (Horde and Alliance) to look like I wanted within the extremely limited capabilities of the system (every type of building looked the same in every Garrison and fit in exactly one kind of building size. The location of some specific buildings was the only difference between Garrisons of two different players).

Yeah, I spent months on them. I also ditched the Garrison entirely when Legion came out as it was no longer relevant content.

It's much easier to add on something new, and design it with little to no thought about linking it to "housing" -- brand new code with limited hardware requirements is much easier to create.

Islands are indeed not meant to replace housing.

[Gunbladesman]

It's almost like someone wrote something like "we know that Islands are not going to be 'housing'. From what we've learned (which is very little) you will not be able to put a single housing item on your Island. It isn't built for that purpose. I anticipate something very close to the Garrisons from Warlords of Draenor in World of Warcraft."

Ya sadly it will probably just end up being a feature you ignore after a couple months, maybe in 6 years we can get another ward for a chance at being allowed the privilege to gamble for a house.