Housing Development Notes: Blood Elf and Night Elf Exteriors Available in Midnight

[Lumy]

Housing Development Notes: Blood Elf and Night Elf Exteriors Available in Midnight

In this thread, we’ll post notes from WoW developers as the various parts of the Housing system see final iteration, from Early Access all the way through the launch of Endeavors.

One aspect of Housing that we want to clarify before Early Access begins tomorrow is this: there are two types of neighborhoods that will be available after patch 11.2.7 this week-- public neighborhoods and guild neighborhoods.

Housing enthusiasts will already know that we’ve also developed a third type of neighborhood: Charter neighborhoods, which can be founded privately by ten players who are not necessarily in the same guild. Charter neighborhoods will not initially be available from the Neighborhood Steward. Our concern here is for the performance and stability of the game as we launch a very complex patch. We’re highly focused on delivering a performant game service as players create many neighborhoods over the next few days and weeks.

We’ve also seen questions from players about the arrival of Blood Elf and Night Elf exteriors. We’re in final development of these, and we expect to add them to the game as options for your houses in the 12.0 patch.

[xskarma]

So Belf and Nelf with the prepatch. That's not too bad.

[Nzx]

Company continues to shoot itself in the foot by refusing to use any form of effective communication. The conspiracy minded among us might point to the fact that housing early access is a huge selling point for pre-orders for the expansion and that Blizzard must have known weeks ago that charter neighbourhoods would be disabled on launch. On the other hand, they're just clearly completely useless at communicating and have been forever.

[MouseD]

Company continues to shoot itself in the foot by refusing to use any form of effective communication. The conspiracy minded among us might point to the fact that housing early access is a huge selling point for pre-orders for the expansion and that Blizzard must have known weeks ago that charter neighbourhoods would be disabled on launch. On the other hand, they're just clearly completely useless at communicating and have been forever.

Yeah this is a chitty way to treat its customers by not allowing Charters to be formed day 1 ....they should of said this weeks back...the only saving grace is those that want to be in a charter can make a house in public and when they can finally make the charter those houses they worked on can be moved into the Charter area freely with no cost.

[Samuraijake]

Company continues to shoot itself in the foot by refusing to use any form of effective communication. The conspiracy minded among us might point to the fact that housing early access is a huge selling point for pre-orders for the expansion and that Blizzard must have known weeks ago that charter neighbourhoods would be disabled on launch. On the other hand, they're just clearly completely useless at communicating and have been forever.

The fuck is this guy complaining about? lol

[tankelele]

hey blizzardsoft u suck ass with ur shitty buggy game

[Relapses]

Company continues to shoot itself in the foot by refusing to use any form of effective communication. The conspiracy minded among us might point to the fact that housing early access is a huge selling point for pre-orders for the expansion and that Blizzard must have known weeks ago that charter neighbourhoods would be disabled on launch. On the other hand, they're just clearly completely useless at communicating and have been forever.

Sir, this is a Wendy's.

[Kilpi]

Company continues to shoot itself in the foot by refusing to use any form of effective communication. The conspiracy minded among us might point to the fact that housing early access is a huge selling point for pre-orders for the expansion and that Blizzard must have known weeks ago that charter neighbourhoods would be disabled on launch. On the other hand, they're just clearly completely useless at communicating and have been forever.

Marketing and PR isn't a conspiracy. Early access is always 100% marketing. What are you talking about? If you feel somehow tricked or let down because "early access" doesn't 100% of the launch features, well that's on you.

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Yeah this is a chitty way to treat its customers by not allowing Charters to be formed day 1 ....they should of said this weeks back...the only saving grace is those that want to be in a charter can make a house in public and when they can finally make the charter those houses they worked on can be moved into the Charter area freely with no cost.

Which begs the question: why is it then such a big deal? I think you can hold out for couple of months.

[Ghostile]

Company continues to shoot itself in the foot by refusing to use any form of effective communication. The conspiracy minded among us might point to the fact that housing early access is a huge selling point for pre-orders for the expansion and that Blizzard must have known weeks ago that charter neighbourhoods would be disabled on launch. On the other hand, they're just clearly completely useless at communicating and have been forever.

And the rest of us read the word "early access" and regarded it as early access and not a ready product.

[Enter Name Here]

for those lacking the capacity to understand nzx's comment:
it's shady from the blues to wait until the day before to disclose that private neighborhoods won't be a thing initially.

[SpaceMistakes]

The fuck is this guy complaining about? lol

He's saying their communication sucks. Because it does.

Or was "they're just clearly completely useless at communicating and have been forever" unclear to you somehow?

[Kathranis]

for those lacking the capacity to understand nzx's comment:
it's shady from the blues to wait until the day before to disclose that private neighborhoods won't be a thing initially.

More likely that they were doing technical tests and waiting to see how many people were going to pre-purchase to get early access, right up to the last minute, with the hope that they would be able to make it work. They hit the internal deadline, determined that they can't guarantee having player-created neighborhoods in addition to auto-generated and guild neighborhoods will be stable with current expected number of players, and put them on hold.

Charter neighborhoods also don't really matter until Endeavors go live. You can already visit any friends' house easily, and after charter neighborhoods go live, everyone will be able to pack up and move their houses to the new charter neighborhoods for free.

[MrLachyG]

for those lacking the capacity to understand nzx's comment:
it's shady from the blues to wait until the day before to disclose that private neighborhoods won't be a thing initially.

Is it though? Let’s be real, if they had announced it a month or two ago then people would’ve forgotten by now and then be angry that they weren’t able to do it. By saying it the day before it’s fresh in people’s brains so they don’t get as upset when they can’t do it