Originally Posted by
Lochton
Bit brutal example for something that it so simple?
Garrison would like to say hello, you know, the personal phased area which you can invite players and they'll see your version instead of their own?
Ask ALL the other bloody MMORPGs with housing, the majority don't even support RP realms (AA, and FFXIV for example). What do they do? They make a place for themselves, they style it how they want, they decorate, they use features within, and they stay with friends to chat and socialize.
Obviously not? Even Blizzard admits that the Garrison isn't really housing. Housing shouldn't be connected as much as the Garrison was to the point where it is forced.
For you, maybe, for others, not? And if it is dead for you, then gloriously you don't have to care about it in the first place for you shouldn't be seeing it unless you seek it out, meanwhile, for others, it'll change a whole aspect of the game.
Man, I can't sell it to you because you don't even know what it should be doing. WoW should be doing fine with or without housing. Housing shouldn't be connected to the world but the world should be able to draw in for the housing (Professions, achievements, vendors, art assets, development, deployment, and progression of the engine). The main problem opposing people have to housing is that they desperately want it to be something to do with the content to the point they expect it to be another Garrison, which was a flop and shrugged off as a failed attempt at housing.
Housing isn't needed for the game to go forward, housing is wanted by players to make more of the world they call home. Mythic raiding wasn't needed for the game to go forward, and neither were M+, or Pet Battles, but things develop, that is what progression is about and now another group of people would like something directed at them instead since the other minorities are being spoon-fed.
Some people want to see the RP grow in MMORPG.