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

[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

[Claviusnex]

Adding housing to WoW still doesn't resolve the garbage they have been putting out since WoD. There are too many problems. Poor story lines, excessive gating, a development group that is extremely out of touch with the majority of the player base and so on. No housing is not enough to get me to return to WoW and unless Microsoft drives major cultural changes I doubt anything else Blizzard tries to add would be enough either.

[Vahlnir]

I'm already an on and off WoW player, so I'm not sure this would really apply to me. But yeah, I'd probably check it out if I'm around for it.

[Aelin_Ashryver]

Would never touch WoW even if it added better housing than ff ^^

[Ocicatthedruid]

Ok, I guess I'll be the lightning rod lol. Absolutely I'd go back to WoW if they added housing. You see, despite all of WoW's problems (and there are many, oh so many) it's never prevented me from engaging in content due to RNG or a poorly designed system that everyone else didn't have to deal with. Oh sure they time gate things galore, but everyone else is stuck behind that same gate, and the WoW token is garbage that allows indirect pay to win to happen, sure they employed scumbags that harassed employees and then protected those same scumbags (some of which might still be there with their heads down trying to ride out the storm), sure Ion is completely out of touch with the player base more so that YoshiP is, sure...what am I even thinking. I've had a change of heart writing this, I doubt I'll ever go back to WoW, housing or no. That being said, just because I won't ever go back to WoW doesn't mean I'm going to stick with FF14 either. Sub was cancelled yesterday and likely won't be reactivated. I'll just play other games until a worthy MMO emerges.

[kpxmanifesto]

No. Wow's gameplay and story is just so disorganized and nonsensical that I can't make myself play the game. Even though I have my own personal gripes with FFXIV's story, FFXIV's gameplay is still a better experience and overall more fun. That fact that I bother to come to the FFXIV official forums to discuss the game's current state of affairs shows that I still care about the outcome of FFXIV. Not so much for wow. I've given up on wow a long time ago.

[EnnCee]

Just curious how much housing is a draw for people.

bwahahahaaaaaaaaaa...really??

so housing was a break point in light of all the other revelations?...

...like drunk development/design for YEARS, sexual harassment to the point of being litigatible(sp) and criminal, CEO's and lead devs being useless, etc., etc., etc. I seriously doubt that a huddle of houses can fix all and more that remains wrong over at blizz. maybe after the microsoft deal goes through, and bobby kotick is kicked to the curb, I'll think about it; BUT that is several years down the line.

after playing through all the story lines here, I'm not too inclined to rush back over to the abusers.

BTW, I'm not laughing at you for asking; I'm laughing at blizz for being so arrogant and dumb...

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

Housing in FFXIV is bad enough to make people go back to WoW?
I really do wonder what people value in a game, or what makes them pay a subscription.

[Jojoya]

Nope, wouldn't go back to WoW. I didn't leave the game because it lacked housing. I left the game because I no longer enjoyed their systems design.

Keep in mind that Garrison were promoted as Blizzard's answer to player housing when they were announced at Blizzcon 2013. Do you really want something that has virtually no character customization for housing?