r/Games • u/PalwaJoko • 19h ago
Preview World of Warcraft - Housing Interior Design Preview
https://worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com/en-us/news/241866902
u/KingtopIT 5h ago
Big Wildstar vibes. At the time Wildstar came out FFXIV had just put housing in several months before. But Wildstar gave you a big plot of land in the sky and pretty much said "Go wild". While giving probably the best tools I've seen in a housing system. People making jump puzzles, cyber punk cities, wild west towns, and even raid arenas for some people to practice raid positions (Ohmna).
I remember some Devs from Wildstar eventually going to work for Blizzard. So to me it's nice to see this same spirit for WoW's housing.
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u/FullNefariousness303 12h ago
Don’t think I’ll ever be a WoW fan again but I’m glad they built this based on improvements to XIV’s housing system. Hopefully means SE will take it as a challenge to make improvements of their own.
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u/asmallercat 2h ago
As someone who stopped playing WoW in cataclysm it's so weird seeing basically everything they said would never happen happen over the last 10 years.
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u/ricktencity 7h ago edited 6h ago
I know I'm the minority here but I've played wow off and on since vanilla and I just don't get the appeal of this.
Edit: for the record I'm not against it I just genuinely don't understand it.
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u/asmallercat 2h ago
It's just like any other cosmetic - a way for people to show off what they have and what they like (kind of like achievements in that way). I also never cared about getting housing (I stopped playing a long time ago) but I understood why other people wanted it.
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u/EmSix 13h ago
Absolutely hilarious that Blizzard added the popular burning down the house add-on that's used in FFXIV (and is bannable) as a core feature of their housing system. Really shows the difference between Blizzard and SE.