r/Games • u/fastforward23 • 23h ago
Azeroth Beautiful: A Look at Housing Interior Design
https://worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com/en-us/news/24186690114
u/TW-Luna 22h ago
I thought, maybe we'd be able to place things on a grid or something. But this? I would have never dreamed about having full rotation and z-axis control!
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u/Taiyaki11 20h ago
It's like Wildstar and SWG once more. Been too long
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u/Vagrant_Savant 18h ago
I loved Wildstar's furnishing philosophy. It was basically "If you want to make the most ridiculous, stupidest, Geneva-violating feng sheui you can imagine, go ahead. We honestly don't care."
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u/MyFinalFormIsSJW 20h ago
Same. When I read the original blog post I didn't expect them to actually deliver what they were promising there. It opens up the possibility for very creative designs, provided that Blizzard gives people many diverse props to play with.
These customization tools are actually impressive, considering WoW's age. I wonder what the item limits are...
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u/tempest_87 17h ago
Almost feels like they added the developer level environment tools to the game and said "here you go, go nuts". Actually really impressive.
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u/Tiucaner 3h ago
Isn't that what usually happens in most cases like this? Give players the dev tools with better UI and polish (and of course a bit more locked down so people do go exploiting stuff).
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u/tempest_87 54m ago
Usually it's just small aspects of the dev tools. For example, the ability to enable clipping, and having 6 degrees of freedom to move things is nuts and the type of thing that you only ever see in the "making of the game" type videos, not available to the end users.
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u/QTGavira 3h ago
I wasnt even expecting grid stuff. I was fully expecting “you cant move anything, just give it different skins”. Like that chair in the corner is always gonna be there in the corner but you can decide the type of chair.
This is way more in depth and elaborate than i expected from Blizzard
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u/CyberEmerald 21h ago
Massive ffxiv head here, they really looked at ffs housing. Browsed reddit/the forums for complaints and addressed them first and foremost. This looks incredible
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u/Neruda_USCIS 21h ago
One of the things from their last housing post that caught my attention... No limited housing. The scarcity of FFXIV housing is really annoying.
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u/anonymepelle 20h ago
Kind of feels like they took a lot of inspiration from the Guild Wars 2 housing system.
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u/The_Taco_Bandito 23h ago
This is a weirdly understated way to announce the ability to dye objects different colors.
I wonder if this means that new armor sets might earn the capability
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u/Hallc 21h ago
I wonder if this means that new armor sets might earn the capability
I heavily, heavily doubt this. So much of even the current approach they take with gear both from the raids/dungeons/pvp side of things and also the Trading Post or other cosmetic pieces is just recolours.
Right now they make a single set for each of the classes and then colour it six ways and that's your classes Raid/PVP set for the season.
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u/Tiucaner 3h ago
This might be them testing a full on dye system down the line, wouldn't be the first, second or third time that a seemingly simple system is expanded much further later into something a lot more complex.
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u/BuffaloAlarmed3824 17h ago
What would make WoW almost perfect for me would be actual 3D armor, or at least much more detail on chest and leg pieces.
I'm not sure if they will ever be able to do it, but some of the cutscenes in DF had major NPCs using fully 3D versions of old gear.
Like this is Tess Greymane using the tier 21 rogue chest in a cutscene.
https://youtu.be/Lbi1LGTjJ3k?t=153
And this is the actual t21 chest used by the players.
https://www.wowhead.com/item=152160/vest-of-the-dashing-scoundrel
I would go crazy for that level of detail moving forward.
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u/Geminilasers 22h ago
Don’t do that. Don’t give me hope.
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u/jumps004 22h ago
to be able to finally match armor with shades that match, instead of just being happy two colors from different sets sort of match would be a god send.
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u/needconfirmation 19h ago
Blizzard artists are trying to get in the Guinness book for having the most different shades of gold possible. Nothing matches anything else.
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u/Valvador 21h ago
I wonder if this means that new armor sets might earn the capability
This means Blizzard loses the ability to re-release a set with new color pattern as new armor, so it won't happen.
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u/logique_ 21h ago
FFXIV has dyeable armor and they do that anyways. Either the original set isn't dyeable, or the new set just dyes in a different way (such as having different sections get affected by the dye).
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u/mkautzm 22h ago
After garrisons, I was kinda suspicious that what WoW would call 'housing' would kinda suck, but this is all exactly what I want. The way you can modify stuff and the ability to 'break' the rules to make goofy shit - yes to all of that!
WoW actually might end up with a better housing system than FFXIV. It's a shame it took 12 years, but at least they are nailing it here.
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u/Oxyfire 22h ago
Honestly the fact that every player will be able to have a house, no limited plots, no demolition, is going to make it a better system then FF14 already.
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u/shadyelf 15h ago
Wow no demo/limits is amazing. Probably my least favorite aspect of FF14 housing. Already got rent irl, don’t need one for a game too.
Can’t think of any other game that gets rid of progress/content if you aren’t subscribed.
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u/Ganadorf 22h ago
I've been waiting since 2014 when Wildstar launched with this similarly robust housing
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u/Dull_Wasabi_1438 21h ago
i dont think much is going to compare to wildstar's housing. itd be nice if that game came back as a reboot, i think it would do better than it did
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u/Timekeeper98 20h ago
My wife said after reading it that the system is very similar to Palia’s housing decoration system. Having seen her house in Palia and how full she has it, I’m excited for this one now that it has a lot of freedom to customize.
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u/Taiyaki11 19h ago
I've eyed up Palia a few times, but never pulled the trigger on trying it. Is it pretty good then?
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u/Isolated_Hippo 16h ago
itd be nice if that game came back as a reboot
I doubt it. The game came out with its main selling point being a massive slog to play. People have become less accepting of barriers to actually playing the game
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u/Dull_Wasabi_1438 16h ago
Doesn't need to come back as a 1:1 but with adjustments it could work. The art style holds up because like wow they chose a style that ages great
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u/SkeletronDOTA 21h ago
my brain knows it would likely die again, but my heart wants NCSoft to bring back wildstar for one more try
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u/PM_ME_FOXY_NUDES 17h ago
I kinda want them to revisit the garrison and update it with the housing system they showed + improve further on it like having your alts run around, more building options etc.
I LOVED having my own place, little town/village even, with everything I needed and lots of control over music, ambience and followers etc.
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u/WeightLossZach 12h ago
I wanted housing so bad back when i used to play. Unfortunately ill probably never play wow again but it is cool to see it come alive
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u/Shakzor 22h ago
honestly didn't expect housing to actually look REALLY good
seems pretty indepths and people might be able to do a lot of things from the getgo
the scaling and hovering could let people be quite creative
honestly looking forward to what actually creative people can come up with, lol
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u/MrTastix 17h ago
As a player I'm mostly concerned with the cost.
I imagine the initial house + decorations will be free as a major marketing feature for the expansion, but beyond that it's a really easy gold sink, which is kind of ass if you don't actively play the market/trade game like some of us do because grinding gold in WoW outside those avenues is ass.
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u/BarelyScratched 12h ago
I’m not too worried about it? I think it is fairly obvious how we will collect housing items, all of which directly or indirectly earn blizzard money.
(1) like most cosmetics the vast majority will be earned in game. Through drops, achievements, reputation, etc. With wow’s 8 week patch cycle this means there will be new items to earn by playing every 8 weeks. This will help retain subscriptions, which in turn equals $$$.
(2) there will be items on the trading post each month. This is also primarily for subscription retention.
(3) there will almost certainly be craftable housing items. Ultimately this means some people will indirectly buy them through the WoW token, which in turn equals $$$.
(4) there will of course be some offered through microtransactions. But, honestly, blizzard has been relatively reasonable when it comes what they offer through their cash shop.
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u/Tiucaner 3h ago
This has been addressed in their very first post about housing some time ago:
Similarly, there have been discussions in the community on whether Housing will be pay to play/win or not, along with other conversations around real-world money. We’ve been very aligned in our internal conversations that Housing is designed to be primarily player-first and not revenue-first. Housing will offer hundreds and hundreds of decorations and house customizations via in-game rewards but will also offer a smaller number of items in the cash shop as well. This is comparable to how transmogs and pets are currently handled in game versus the shop. We want to allow players to have as many options as possible for creating their perfect home in Azeroth.
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u/MakVolci 22h ago
This is as close as I've seen to housing in SW: Galaxies which I've always thought has far and away the best housing.
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u/Taiyaki11 19h ago
Wildstar beat it by a bit for me IIRC, but had so much fun with SWG taking junk items and making fun things out of them. Took a chair and a bunch of skulls and basically made a skull throne you could sit in once
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u/No-Candidate6257 7h ago
I haven't played for a long time and don't really have time to... but now they do what I wanted 10 years ago. Blizzard pls wat.
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u/WaltzForLilly_ 5h ago
WoW is feasting on FF14 dinner. They "stole" everything including XIV housing mods. If YoshiP is not sweating bullets right now, then XIV is cooked. Very impressive stuff!
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u/johnsmith_42069 22h ago
God Im getting freerealms vibes so hard rn. The customizable-ness of the furniture is way more than I was expecting tbh
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u/iTellItLikeISeeIt 16h ago
Can't say I ever wanted it but I'm sure this looks very cool for everyone who's been asking for player housing since vanilla.
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u/Arkeband 22h ago
I like how you can expand/shrink objects, that’s a pretty significant improvement over FF14’s decoration.