Player housing: an answer to empty cities

[Thirtyrock]

I don’t play them, enlighten me.

People go there and decorate...That seems to be it.

[Squigglyo]

If your expecting anything other than a Garrison styled instance your setting yourself up to be disappointed.

[Soon-TM]

Bel'ameth is probably going to have housing, yes. But I don't think it will be a "new" city as in a main capital city like the rest. We also know that Teldrassil is regrowing. They're going to do a Northern Kalimdor revamp at some point.

If they are ever going to do big revamps, post WSS is like the perfect chance.

[Aelwe]

Housing will have to be instanced, but I heard someone mention the idea of having phased "neighborhoods", so you might have your house in a neighborhood with 50 or so players and the instance feels populated with your neighbors. I think that was just a fan idea, but I like it. Housing has to be instanced just by the nature of it. Cities can't accommodate hundreds, or thousands, of player houses without it being instanced or phased in some way.

LOTRO does it this way and I quite like this approach. You have an instanced neighborhood shared between 20 or so players and 1 to 3 guilds. You can invite people to your home and neighborhood, so anyone can visit if invited. Also, there are different themed neighborhoods that are accessed from different parts of the map. This could work well in WoW: you have Stormwind to access the human neighborhood, Ironforge to access the dwarf one and so on...so you need to go to the city hub to actually access and still need to go there for AH or other services that are not IN the neighborhood, but quite close, so they're available and help give more life to cities.

[NekoOwlAzure]

Still not too sure about Bel'ameth being the capital, the Night Elves shouldn't be kicked off of Kalimdor and need to make a new home elsewhere, they should retake their lands and make their city there. Tyrande did say in a cinematic in Bel'ameth that "This won't be our only home. Val'sharah, Hyjal, Ashenvale, they are all sacred places to us." as well as talking about planting Teldrassil anew once life blooms on it's ashen shores.

Nice. That means this isn't for you. And that's ok. I put my HS in Bel'ameth. Everytime I use it I go to the SW portal and then choose where to go. It's not a big deal at all for me.

I put mine in Dornogal cause it's where the highest content is, and cause it's not another races capital like Stormwind so it's not so bad. I might just set it to Bel'ameth though since it's the best place to be and isn't too far from Dornogal, so I can still get to the pvp vendors and quest givers etc along with any story stuff that happens there.

[Elfezen]

from what it looks like player housing is a feature for midnight expansion and will become irrelevant after it, its always like that with wow, there hasnt been any stable expansion feature that was relevant afterwards, it will be surprising if even hero talents continued after war within at this point

[Steelcryo]

And people will care what others houses look like and visit them.

Remember, just because YOU don't find something appealing, doesn't mean there's a whole bunch of other people that do.

[Mic_128]

from what it looks like player housing is a feature for midnight expansion and will become irrelevant after it

They've said it'll be evergreen content, not a one-and-done.

its always like that with wow, there hasnt been any stable expansion feature that was relevant afterwards

Dungeon finder, Mythic+ dungeons, LFR, Weekly Vaults, Dragon/Skyriding, and I'm sure if I bothered to look, I could find more.

[NekoOwlAzure]

from what it looks like player housing is a feature for midnight expansion and will become irrelevant after it, its always like that with wow, there hasnt been any stable expansion feature that was relevant afterwards, it will be surprising if even hero talents continued after war within at this point

And it seems to be less like that in Final Fantasy online... Hmm...

[Lolites]

Remember, just because YOU don't find something appealing, doesn't mean there's a whole bunch of other people that do.

and vice versa...

[mbit2]

from what it looks like player housing is a feature for midnight expansion and will become irrelevant after it, its always like that with wow, there hasnt been any stable expansion feature that was relevant afterwards, it will be surprising if even hero talents continued after war within at this point

pokemon never went away. Even the current celebration includes pet battles.
Every xpac they add new pets. Always kinda wondered how popular it is to get so much effort.
I think housing is boring af and people should rather focus on irl home but i could see it attracting a similar userbase as pet battles.

[NekoOwlAzure]

and vice versa...

Quoted for truth.

[baskev]

lol your list

- Alliance:
Night Elf (Belameth in Dragonflight) < not a city. not even a village has nothing there
Gilneas (Gilneas reclamation in Dragonflight) < same as above
Draenei and Lightforged Draenei (a sneak peek at the end of the Draenei Heritage armor) < like the shattarth raid in WoD....first i would like to see it.
And void elves: als not a city
Mecha gnomes is still a dungeon
and gnomes is also not a city

As it stands alliance has: SW, IF, Exodar, Boralus


As for your thread post. I agree it could be a answer to it. But they could also make the more relevant. more of the celebrations in the cities. special things via main cities.