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

[Imora]

Not only competitive gaming but also for players, who do not care about the game.

Asmongold has made a reaction video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hpl_3BDihE

He said, that the game has no PvP vendors because Blizzard is afraid, that the players would not find them etc. This video is worth watching about the current state of the game.


Cheers

That was a BS excuse.

Real reason is that if they gave you vendors you'd have something to work towards that's guaranteed eventually rather than RNG and the game thrives on RNG. They want you to keep playing for the chance at getting what you need or want.

[Kolsykol]

I rly think people severely overestimate how many people care about the housing stuff.
It's cool bonus content but I don't think it's some kind of a deciding factor for all that many people, and I also don't think it's why people left WoW.

Also.
If WoW added housing they'd probably add some kind of a grind to it lol.
I just imagine them adding it and tying it to some convoluted and tedious system or new Covenant.
If I saw that they were adding housing the first thing that would enter my mind is '' what's the catch '', I also just think that the devs approach the game very differently than the FFXIV devs.
FFXIV has more of an emphasis on the RP side and activities outside the game being a combat simulator.
WoW is more about excuses to get to go out and kill stuff.
It's designed for much shorter attention spans.

[Ryaz]

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.

[sharknado]

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.

[VelKallor]

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.

[Snowdove]

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

"OCE"?

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


All of it, gone forever.

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

[Loonies]

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.

[SturmChurro]

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.

[Fhaerron]

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.

[MoofiaBossVal]

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