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

[BokoToloko]

I don't think Blizzard would be able to pull any decent housing even being optimistic about the game designers. The workload needed to make it work after multiple expansions and the amount of time they would need adding more elements to the housing system has little chance to pay off. Either the games comes with housing early on integrated within the base game or it doesn't.

So, even if they added housing, I don't think it would factor in my decision of coming back to WoW, though I technically never "abandoned" it to begin with as I usually tend to go back and forth. I got things I like/dislike from each game.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Even if you bought me all of the expansions I'm behind on, paid my sub, and bought me a new PC to play it on, I still wouldn't be interested in going back to WoW, housing or no.

Half curious if my characters even still exist, come to think of it. How long does Blizzard retain them once you stop paying? I'd check but I don't even remember what server I was on.

[Espon]

Even if you bought me all of the expansions I'm behind on, paid my sub, and bought me a new PC to play it on, I still wouldn't be interested in going back to WoW, housing or no.

Half curious if my characters even still exist, come to think of it. How long does Blizzard retain them once you stop paying? I'd check but I don't even remember what server I was on.

Characters are never deleted. They may force a name change on a level 1 alt because someone wants to use that name, but when I checked it out during the free weekend before Shadowlands I still had old level 1 characters I made back in vanilla.

[BokoToloko]

Even if you bought me all of the expansions I'm behind on, paid my sub, and bought me a new PC to play it on, I still wouldn't be interested in going back to WoW, housing or no.

Half curious if my characters even still exist, come to think of it. How long does Blizzard retain them once you stop paying? I'd check but I don't even remember what server I was on.

They always stay. Only thing that happens is they get delisted from the Armory iirc. The only thing Blizzard doesn't retain is data from low level characters you delete, after a period of time.

[Imora]

Even if you bought me all of the expansions I'm behind on, paid my sub, and bought me a new PC to play it on, I still wouldn't be interested in going back to WoW, housing or no.

Half curious if my characters even still exist, come to think of it. How long does Blizzard retain them once you stop paying? I'd check but I don't even remember what server I was on.

They retain them forever, but you may have been flagged for a rename, as they do that occasionally to inactives.

[SherlottaEryut]

No, I don’t think I ever could go back. The same reason why I stopped playing Dead By Daylight; When you play a game and find yourself getting more angry than you are having fun, it really makes you wonder if it’s worth the subscription. In the end, you realise you only played it out of habit.

[Istaru]

They couldn't pay me enough to play that game regardless of what they add.

If you like WoW, good for you, seriously, enjoy it and have a good time. It's not a game I have any interest in every playing.

[Lily_Skye]

Just curious how much housing is a draw for people.

no until they add cat girls

[Darthgummibear]

I had originally left WoW for 3 reasons:

1) Gameplay

2) Game direction(story/etc)

3) Scummy leadership

I have yet to see any evidence of improvement on any of these issues, so at this point the answer is no.

[Breakbeat]

Nope. But that's because I left WoW when I was done with it; I didn't leave over some FOTM controversy or silly DPS rankings or lore problems or any of the other things you hear commonly complained about in relation to WoW.

I simply got bored of the WoW world, the whole thing. I got tired of it. I will not go back. I wouldn't even go back if all future expansions were free and game time was free. I've spent over three solid years of my life playing WoW (1000-ish days /played or /playtime if one prefers) and I had a blast for 98% of the time. Things change; people change. My desires and needs at 46 just simply aren't the same as my desires and needs at 26.

Features X and Y and Z won't bring me back to it. It will still be WoW (with features X, Y and Z).

Such is life. I got tired of some Pink Floyd albums (at the point where I know every lyric, note, pause, breath, sound effect, etc., 1000 times over), I got tired of some Scorsese films, (when you know every line, character movement, camera movement, focus slip, how long characters hold their breath, etc., also 1000 times over)... and I got tired of WoW.

/shrug