After 20 Long Years, WoW Is Getting Player Housing In Its Midnight Expansion
After 20 Long Years, WoW Is Getting Player Housing In Its Midnight Expansion
Home is where the Hearthstone is.
Watch out be like everything else in wow and be used for one expansion and then forgotten about.
What’s next, a dance studio?
Imagine they start selling plots and then have a housing shortage because of speculators. I wouldn't put it past Microsoft!
WoW has already done something similar in Warlords of Draenor, iirc, when you could make and develop your outpost, but wasn't it considered to be mostly a failure because players were there and so common locations were more empty?
They surely learnt from that. Now there won't be an auction house and mail so close together, so players have at least one reason to be in the city. Oh wait, nevermind, they are already selling that for the price of 1,5x AAA game.
You sure tapped into a particular frustration of mine :D
Again copying guild wars 2?
Ultima online had player housing in 97, it's not exactly breakthrough tech
There were probably text based online games (MUX/MUSH/MUD/...) that had it even earlier.
There are unused assets in the original World of Warcraft that suggested a player housing system was being developed but never finished. The idea is as old as MMORPGs are.
The Anime/Manga/video game series dotHack, which is about a fake MMORPG, predates WoW by several years and has player housing for some of the characters.
Interesting unfinished housing projects in vanilla wow, I wonder how that would’ve worked.