Developer Interview - Player Housing

"Decor isn't as meaningful if you could just place infinite of it." The person that would place an unlimited number of them is probably not going to care about it to begin with. It's just another example of blizzard throwing an unnecessary roadblock in front of people.

Originally Posted by chaud

[*]Decor isn't as meaningful if you could just place 1000 of an item.

"Meaningful" is a very convenient word to avoid to justify bullshit.

This list makes me very very happy. Especially the Guild Halls. I feel like this has gone under the radar, but suddenly showing up? I'd love to hear more about it! Regardless, we're eating well, guys <3 I can't wait!

Originally Posted by Swarzsinne

"Decor isn't as meaningful if you could just place infinite of it." The person that would place an unlimited number of them is probably not going to care about it to begin with. It's just another example of blizzard throwing an unnecessary roadblock in front of people.

It means = we don't want to devalue things. Other translation "The more valuable things people gathers, the stronger the FOMO". Other translation could be "We earn money from FOMO - not charity".

Night Elf and Blood Elf exteriors
Once these are available, i will probably use the house system. In the meanwhile, i'm not interested.

I dig the idea of snow if you want for your house. Now the idea I don't like is the mount in your house idea. Now outside that would be cool for sure. Kinda like a stable or something. But I definitely don't want no big ass mount inside my house. Also that would be cool to copy and paste someone's so that your house looks like there's but with a few modifications of your own added to it.

Wonder how basements aren't workable right now, feel like it shouldn't be that hard. Must be something interesting limiting that.

New personal loot decor drops (with bad luck protection) from Midnight's first set of raids, with a guaranteed number of items from each boss that scales with raid size.

Wonder if this will be on a separate loot table. Would suck if you are running a raid for a specific armor/weapon/trinket and end up only getting a decor item and that resets your bad luck counter.

Wonder how basements aren't workable right now, feel like it shouldn't be that hard. Must be something interesting limiting that.

Wonder if it has something to do with making a pitfall right at the doorway? Enter someone's home, three story drop to your death. Do they care, no. They have feather fall, or are Demon Hunters, Evokers, or Engineers who just glide down.

I actually have no problem with decor being obtained/purchased individually... The whole longevity/investment of this feature relies on spending time collecting the items you want. If everybody got infinite applications of earned items people would run through it in 2 seconds and then complain it was a waste of resources because they're done with it.

No mention at all of other race/cultures getting exteriors. Sigh.

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Originally Posted by Kiivar86

Wonder how basements aren't workable right now, feel like it shouldn't be that hard. Must be something interesting limiting that.

Trust me, things that seem like 'they shouldn't be that hard' in game dev are often incredibly tedious to get to work right.

Originally Posted by Hugnomo

I actually have no problem with decor being obtained/purchased individually... The whole longevity/investment of this feature relies on spending time collecting the items you want. If everybody got infinite applications of earned items people would run through it in 2 seconds and then complain it was a waste of resources because they're done with it.

Exactly this.

I think it is really necessary to have some friction behind earning decor. I want this to be a lifelong system. If you could place infinite items we'd all be done with housing in a day and complain. This way we can keep chipping away at earning stuff.

Imho, there should have been more items tied to professions and drops (but it is early access).

Originally Posted by SpaceMistakes

Trust me, things that seem like 'they shouldn't be that hard' in game dev are often incredibly tedious to get to work right.

Yeah that's a fair point. I'm very much a lay person with coding so I can only imagine what it could be like. I took a course in high school and I had a helluva time making a basic snake game, heh.

Originally Posted by SpaceMistakes

Trust me, things that seem like 'they shouldn't be that hard' in game dev are often incredibly tedious to get to work right.

Yep. Like doors.

So much time and effort for an useless feature

Originally Posted by javierdsv

So much time and effort for an useless feature

Mate, I hate to tell you this, but the whole game is completely useless. All of it. But let people have their fun, mmkay?

if a decor costs 1k.. nethershards or whatever, deduct them when i want to place a decor. refund the cost or put it in the stash when i take it away.

but don't make me do trips.

Originally Posted by Swarzsinne

"Decor isn't as meaningful if you could just place infinite of it." The person that would place an unlimited number of them is probably not going to care about it to begin with. It's just another example of blizzard throwing an unnecessary roadblock in front of people.

I am that person and also do care. There are benefits both to creative mode style unlimited systems and to constraints. In addition to giving the individual decor value and being a healthy approach from an economic perspective (and subsequently for the health of things like professions), the decor being individual items also creates interesting design decision moments such as "Well should I use X material for a staircase or Y much cheaper decor? And if I use Y what goes with that slightly different material look for the rest of the room and how will it change the vibe of the overall look?"

As someone who does art stuff I like and appreciate those moments.

"Here's an unlimited budget and a whole art supply store, what can you make?" is cool. But "Here's a box of crayons, what can you do with just that?" is also quite enjoyable.

I hope at some point they'll add racial decor vendors so all the decor of a certain race is just on one vendor. It's a pain in the ass having to fly across multiple different vendors because one sells a bed and table but the other sells the chairs and dressers.

Originally Posted by sylenna

if a decor costs 1k.. nethershards or whatever, deduct them when i want to place a decor. refund the cost or put it in the stash when i take it away.

but don't make me do trips.

Hard no.

This is an RPG. You should go to a person who sells an item and trade with them to purchase it. This game is becoming more and more window-based or instance-based. It's not too much to ask to actually go out into the world. Too much stuff is just done from menus.