Quote Originally Posted by Jojoya View Post
The only thing said so far is that friends would be able to visit. They've said nothing else yet about how they intend to make WoW housing a "deeply social experience".

The second housing blog just got released about how players will be able to decorate interiors and it's looking very similar to what RIFT and Wildstar used. Placement on any axis with rotation and resizing. Now that was something to get me a bit hopeful and excited about it. That really would put some pressure on SE to upgrade the FFXIV housing interface.

But I still don't see WoW housing as being the death of FFXIV. Tribalism is a thing. The FF franchise has a large number of loyal players and housing fanatics are not going to be able to recreate the more realistic designs they're able to make here using WoW's cartoonish art assets.
While I don't see WoW housing being the death of FFXIV either, I do think more realistic designs is going to be doable. WoW's Advanced mode has collisions entirely turned off. That being said, I do hope it puts pressure on Square Enix as well, but I'm also not holding my breath, considering the reason they aren't allowing us to place a glamour dresser in our houses is that it'd crash the servers.

But of course, the game doesn't have technical debt according to YoshiP, so what do I know.