TESO the biggest rival for ARR?

[bobbygunz]

Just curious, since I haven't been following TESO news, like at all, did they say anything new about hosing in that MMO? Cause, in one of the first interviews about it they were all like "There'll be no housing cause it's difficult to implement it in a MMO" which made me go WTF seriously?!

It is difficult, unless you just implement it in an instance like ARR. Few games really have or have had persistent, meaningful housing features. Instanced housing is the easy option, but just removes players out of the MMO gameworld and puts them in instances, which isn't a good thing.

[Nuinn]

Why? It actually isn't an easy system to implement in a meaningful manner, which is why people overly excited for it in ARR will ultimately be disappointed. This is why for example Yoshi used DQX's as an example, because it's very simplistic.

To be honest, I've yet to play a MMO with anything really elaborate when it comes to housing. Perhaps I've just missed playing such MMOs. So far all had instanced housing, with simple mechanic, but still enough freedom for customization to make it a neat enjoyable pastime. I suppose it just depends what people are expecting it to be. . . .

I'd love nothing more than a Harvest Moon style type of housing, but well aware it'd be extremely difficult to implement something as complex in a MMO. Was actually referring to one of those early interviews where they said TESO won't be having any, even the simplest housing feature (which I sort of view as something that perhaps should be, in one way or another, a standard feature in MMOs today - small or big in volume, purely for vanity or have practical use).

It is difficult, unless you just implement it in an instance like ARR. Few games really have or have had persistent, meaningful housing features. Instanced housing is the easy option, but just removes players out of the MMO gameworld and puts them in instances, which isn't a good thing.

Personally quite fine with instanced housing, the way ARR intends to do it. Apart from having duplicates of the same instance, it's effectively still is a separately loaded zone which "divides" the players, to put it that way.

That was a misspeak/quote. Housing will not be in at launch, but they are planning to add it sometime afterwards.

Glad to hear. As said, haven't been following news about TESO and that was just stuck in my head since the early interviews which I found extremely odd and bit disheartening cause ever since Daggerfall I loved having that option in my TES games.