WoW's player housing will have no FOMO and private housing wards

[Vandi]

Starting to feel my age. A billion years ago, I remember, as a player from day 1 when FFxi laughed its butt off at WoW. Now, 20 years later, we come full circle where it’s doing things correctly whereas 14 is sinking into the sand. Tired. Just give me a rocking chair by the fire and some coffee. Lawd help us all.

[Xapapetsu]

Blizzard today announced some details of their upcoming player housing system that'll be made available to players in the next WoW expansion due to release in 2026.



I sure wonder what game(s) they're referring to with this statement.

That said, Square Enix should really be reworking their systems so everyone can have a house. Likewise, we shouldn't lose it if we decide to take a break.



Private housing "wards" is a super cool idea, especially if it doesn't involve unsavoury tactics to actually get your guild (free company in XIV terms) and/or friends in the same "ward" together.

There's a few other details in the post including mentions that some housing items will be on the cash store plus the slow addition of new locations for neighbourhoods overtime. At first it'll just be two zones, one themed on the initial Human areas and the other on the Orc areas.

It otherwise reads like they're going to copy a lot of what FFXIV does for housing while also addressing some of the major sticking points that Square Enix are unlikely to address at this point. Although one would imagine the other major MMO indirectly calling out flawed game design is the catalyst to actually address the problem with tangible changes.

Source: https://worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com.../news/24176592

To be fair, FFXIV housing kinda sucks. I have a house which I don't want to get rid of since I spent around 50 mil gil to purchase and furnish it, but the decorating system is horrendous, and there's not really anything to do with it after it's decorated. You may think your friends can hang out there, but normally they don't so it's practically worthless. FC housing has more functionality to at least make it worth getting one.

[Arohk]

I doubt that housing in WoW will have the same variety and creativity when it comes to designing homes.

To be fair, FFXIV housing kinda sucks. I have a house which I don't want to get rid of since I spent around 50 mil gil to purchase and furnish it, but the decorating system is horrendous, and there's not really anything to do with it after it's decorated. You may think your friends can hang out there, but normally they don't so it's practically worthless. FC housing has more functionality to at least make it worth getting one.

Yeah housing serves no "purpose" beside allowing you to decorate your home how ever you like it, it is just a minigame you do for fun.

Here are some things that i would like to see changed:

-Account wide housing, you can only own one house per account, but all characters share that house.
-Remove all but one house from people who already own multiple on one acccount/character.
-Access to airships and submarines, a public harbor where you can level your private submarine & airship. (maybe just one instead of four per character)
-Rework the Decoration menu as some plug ins have it, allowing to move furniture up and down and via coordinates, no more tedious glitching!
-Allowing to save and load house layouts like Makeplace has it.
-Increase item limit by 50% in all houses.

[Chasingstars]

FC housing has more functionality to at least make it worth getting one.

True actually. It's why I never understood why people wanted a non-FC. I remember when Ishgard residental was new and there was just so many open FC plots. It's a lot easier to just make a shell FC and lotto for a house. The sub and airship is just valuable.

[Absurdity]

Ngl still think they should nuke Island Sanctuary and use that server space for instance housing.

That would do nothing because there isn't any "new" space. IS just runs on the same servers and uses the same capacity as the house interior, which is why you couldn't even enter your house for some hours when Island Sanctuary released.

-Remove all but one house from people who already own multiple on one acccount/character.

This is the big one.
I don't care if you bought your 30 housing plots legitimately when that was still possible, it was clearly a gross design oversight and nobody "needs" to have an entire ward to themselves, that's just ridiculous.
Make them choose one plot out of all they own, give them back the gil they paid for the rest and clear those plots.


Is it going to solve the issue? Of course not, but just letting people get away with that kind of nonsense is really not inspiring confidence.

[Clockworks]

That would do nothing because there isn't any "new" space. IS just runs on the same servers and uses the same capacity as the house interior, which is why you couldn't even enter your house for some hours when Island Sanctuary released.



This is the big one.
I don't care if you bought your 30 housing plots legitimately when that was still possible, it was clearly a gross design oversight and nobody "needs" to have an entire ward to themselves, that's just ridiculous.
Make them choose one plot out of all they own, give them back the gil they paid for the rest and clear those plots.


Is it going to solve the issue? Of course not, but just letting people get away with that kind of nonsense is really not inspiring confidence.

Okay, lets say they did remove the houses from multiowners, you admitted yourself it wont solve the issue which at least is good.

My question is, who are you going to come after next after multiowners since it will fix absolutely nothing ? Or are you just happy removing the houses multiowners worked for (more than any person that is not a multiowner, you can believe it or not, doesnt matter, they did work on it far more than people with a single house)

I ask that question because from what I'm reading, you are more than happy with their houses getting destroyed knowing very well it wont fix anything, you dont want a solution or for people to have houses, you just want SE to take the houses multiowners worked on. That's called envy and jealousy.

[Arohk]

I ask that question because from what I'm reading, you are more than happy with their houses getting destroyed knowing very well it wont fix anything, you dont want a solution or for people to have houses, you just want SE to take the houses multiowners worked on. That's called envy and jealousy.

First of all, the current rules of the game allows a player to only buy one house, this would just enforce the current rules, leave them one of their largest houses and demolish the rest.

I have a large house myself and it took me very long to get one, yes it wouldn't fix what you guys see as a "Problem", but the housing areas are very limited and if one players has 20 houses they can probably can't even use it is just unfair for the other 19 people who cant have one.
Do you really think someone can decorate 20 homes and does that regularly? most people who have a house decorate them once and then never again.
There is already a big housing crisis in real life because billionaires own and speculate on real estate, we don't need that in a video game too.

Instanced housing could easily be implemented by using the apartment system and allowing players to increase the interior size, i am not against that.

[Clockworks]

First of all, the current rules of the game allows a player to only buy one house, this would just enforce the current rules, leave them one of their largest houses and demolish the rest.

I have a large house myself and it took me very long to get one, yes it wouldn't fix what you guys see as a "Problem", but the housing areas are very limited and if one players has 20 houses they can probably can't even use it is just unfair for the other 19 people who cant have one.
Do you really think someone can decorate 20 homes and does that regularly? most people who have a house decorate them once and then never again.
There is already a big housing crisis in real life because billionaires own and speculate on real estate, we don't need that in a video game too.

Instanced housing could easily be implemented by using the apartment system and allowing players to increase the interior size, i am not against that.

Thank you but that was not my question, my question was : Who will people (and the person I quoted included) go after in the case multiowners lost their houses ? Since it wont fix anything, who is next in line to have to lose their house ?

[Arohk]

Thank you but that was not my question, my question was : Who will people (and the person I quoted included) go after in the case multiowners lost their houses ? Since it wont fix anything, who is next in line to have to lose their house ?

What is your problem exactly? i already made a suggestion.
It is obvious that in this current structure not every player can own a house in an open area, and that is fine.
Opening blocked slot for new players is a good idea regardless if it solves what ever your problem is or not.

i really don't like this mindset of "this wont fix the(my) issue, so lets do nothing"
Instead of beign envious, you could try and make friends in the game and share a house with someone

[Clockworks]

What is your problem exactly? i already made a suggestion.
It is obvious that in this current structure not every player can own a house in an open area, and that is fine.
Opening blocked slot for new players is a good idea regardless if it solves what ever your problem is or not.

i really don't like this mindset of "this wont fix the(my) issue, so lets do nothing"
Instead of beign envious, you could try and make friends in the game and share a house with someone

"What is my problem", I dont have a problem, I simply asked a question, I personally dont have any problem, I am confused as to what you're on about ? What am I envious of ?