Garrisons ARE our Capitals Now

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Let's see here; we got all mandatory capital services: AH (with TP), portals (with MT/SL), trade chat, an inn (for REXP and hearths), repair, and stable master!

Not trying to be too cynical here, but it sure looks like Blizzard has failed in their goal to prevent players from becoming hermits who waste their WoW lives away in a house/garrison.

[Deleted]

Let's see here; we got all mandatory capital services: AH (with TP), portals (with MT/SL), trade chat, an inn (for REXP and hearths), repair, and stable master!

Not trying to be too cynical here, but it sure looks like Blizzard has failed in their goal to prevent players from becoming hermits who waste their WoW lives away in a house/garrison.

Airport is still missing.

[Mattysaiyan]

Or they succeeded in creating player housing in a savage world.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Airport is still missing.

Quite obviously will be added by the end of beta.

[Deleted]

Or they succeeded in creating player housing in a savage world.

It's far from player housing, it's town building. None of the buildings can even be designated as "your house".

[Mattysaiyan]

It's far from player housing, it's town building. None of the buildings can even be designated as "your house".

Indeed. However, since Blizzard never liked the idea of player housing in the first place it's probably the closest we're going to get.

[kyoloco]

if only our followers could do the thriller dance with us...

[IIamaKing]

It's far from player housing, it's town building. None of the buildings can even be designated as "your house".

K but its your town.

[cityguy193]

Would have rather had people afk in cities.
Afking in their own instances breaks down more of the mmo aspect of the game.

[NuLogic]

Well my place is going to have blackjack, hookers and maybe Darude - Sandstorm!

[Dispraise]

K but its your town.

Nope. Any town designed and built by my character would have a house. Because he's sick and damn tired of being homeless.

[kyoloco]

K but its your town.

it used to be her town too...

[terminaltrip421]

there are portals to all major cities?

[Azrile]

Let's see here; we got all mandatory capital services: AH (with TP), portals (with MT/SL), trade chat, an inn (for REXP and hearths), repair, and stable master!

Not trying to be too cynical here, but it sure looks like Blizzard has failed in their goal to prevent players from becoming hermits who waste their WoW lives away in a house/garrison.

The players who care about being looked at will still go to capital cities. don´t worry, there will still be plenty of people hovering over orgrimmar with the latest mount with 1000 others all thinking they are special.

The other thing about your post is that any player that wants to turn his garrison into what you described is sacrificing a lot of building plots to do it. With my setup, I am focusing on followers/missions, so I won´t have many of the city-like functionality.

[melodramocracy]

Because what any good MMO needs is more pro-isolation content.

[fengosa]

there are portals to all major cities?

You can build a mage tower if you want to. Its seems a bit of a waste in my opinion because you have a multitude of ways to get around the world as is(gold cm ports, baradin tabard, etc)

[Sierra85]

Ironforge will always be my favorite capital city. Screw garrisons.

[XangXu]

Garrisons are hardly "player housing" compared to other games like Wildstar

[Dead_MAX]

Garrisons are hardly "player housing" compared to other games like Wildstar

"Compared to other games" = True
Nevertheless they are still World of Warcraft equivalent for "Player housing".
*Puts on sunglasses* Deal with it.

[Raven]

there are portals to all major cities?

If you choose to build the mage tower.