Player housing
Player housing
The problem with World of Warcraft and having some sort of actual player housing is that every open space in the game already has a purpose. Most everything that I’ve seen in this game has some purpose or another, and that purpose would be ruined if someone up and placed a house there.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not against player housing, in fact I would love nothing more than to have player-built towns everywhere, like back when I played SWG. I was part of a community there, and it was awesome. Player housing worked very well in SWG.
However, the reason that it worked so well in SWG is the same reason that it wouldn’t work at all in WoW. That reason is content. SWG had very little content, and lots and lots of open space. Every planet was around 15 square kilometers, and most of that space was empty. Left lots of space for player housing. WoW, on the other hand, is a very content-rich game. Like I said before, just about every place has a purpose already, and those that don’t would be too small to hold any sort of non-instanced housing. It’s really too bad. 
tl;dr: WoW is already full of stuff, houses wouldn’t fit.
Also:
As long as China plays WoW, this will never happen.
This argument has been made several times, and has been shot down all of those times. I will do it again now.
We already know instances work, so we could have all the houses there. The new DK starting area shows it very nicely, how you transition from one to another smothly. Also it could be done just like EQ where you have one building and when you go into it, you go into your place. So the portals are in the game also….where you spend honor in the old PvP buildings.
Imagine some of the buildings in Org/Stowmwind that actually have a door you can open and a portal behind it. Then you walk into it and get loaded into your house/apartment etc..
Heck there has even been rumors about the portal in Stormwind that is blocked off by the gates being an old test for an instanced area for player housing…. Of course the houses wouldn’t go out into the land where it is right now. That was never suggested and if you even ever thought that it would happen like that lol no….
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