Comments on: Putting the Pieces Together

By: Kauket

Kauket — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 18:21:15 +0000

Interesting speculations on where the developments for the farm could go. It would certainly keep my husband entertained. Ownership keeps people around.

And since Minecraft was mentioned, we gave patch 1.4 a spin (1.5 should be out soon) and turns out you don’t need a separate server any more for LAN play: you can just open a single game for another person on your LAN to join. That rocks. We also went mildly more insane and gave Skyblock (http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/600254-surv-skyblock/) a try. Holy crap, that is a hardcore test of your Minecraft skills and esoteric knowledge.

And on another topic, it’s been a while since you’ve written a guide, and I haven’t found anything really good on the web yet, so how about a dark apotheosis warlock build and play guide please? My lock’s stuck at 85, and I didn’t enjoy him much in Cata (wanted to see the Worgen start zone and then the guild needed a worgen lock for the achievement), but what you’ve been describing sounds like a lot of fun!

By: E

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 06:50:36 +0000

I’d love a small place near Silvermoon for my Hunter, would let me get a little bit of the RP/Lore stuff out of my system that has sat dormant since I moved to a PVE server instead of my original RP server. I’d love lodging that looked like a Farstrider lived there, let my leatherworker make me rugs out of pelts of animals I’ve killed, maybe my blacksmith could make me a tidy little fireplace for the corner…yes. I like this very much. Especially if I could have some place where my ‘pets’ could run around free until I needed them in my active stable. Come home to find random spider webs all over the place, left from a content shale spider!

And I think it’s about time they commemorate you in game, isn’t it? All the other major bloggers have gotten their nods, I do believe you are well past your turn.

By: Indy

Indy — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 04:10:42 +0000

EQ already do this and it’s a BIG hit. They have both Guild Halls and personal housing – pretty much an industry of it’s own with players paid to design and decorate for others. And surprisingly addictive once you get started with it ;)

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 22:18:44 +0000

Yeah, that’s the best thing that Blizz has done this time around: giving us real reasons to go back to old content we kind of want to already, but never could really justify the time for with so much to do in the new content.

By: Torcthaim

Torcthaim — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 20:12:29 +0000

I’d love a stronghold of some kind. The number one feature I’d want in it though would be armor stands. Let me take that complete set of tier 1 armor out of void storage and just stick it on an armor stand so I can look at it and not have it take space. And let me transmog from it. My biggest regret was selling off old tier sets to make bag/bank space back before void storage came along. And when you start counting how many pieces of gear that is (14 tiers later + PVP sets……) clearly void storage isn’t enough for it. Although “borrowing” Onyxia’s head from the giant post in Orgrimmar and putting it in my house would be cool too. :)

By: Herr Drache

Herr Drache — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:36:28 +0000

About resting on the farm, when I’m in “my” farm house, I get the “Zzz” and do not incur a logout timer.
Clearly a better alternative to passing out in front of the bar in the inn after having too much Absinthe and apparently getting friendly with a Night Elf (awkward, for an Orc…) OK, perhaps not “clearly” better ;)

By: Tesh

Tesh — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:09:10 +0000

When talking “new raid content” or “personalization” stuff… it seems Blizzard is at least happy with Transmogrification, the ‘farm and Pet Battles. They remade Plants vs. Zombies in the game, for crying out loud. I keep needing to remind people (even Blizzard designers, it seems) that not everyone raids. The main thing that housing does is let players have a little bit of ownership of the world, and that’s a precious thing when you’re finding ways to keep people emotionally and financially invested in your game.

By: Azwing

Azwing — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 22:47:09 +0000

There are problems with the idea though.

- how do you show other people? If it’s just a personal house, that would get old pretty fast, IMO.
- related to the first point, doesn’t this just promote isolation? Blizz wants people out in the world. Personal housing just isolates them more.
- how customizable can they make housing? Unless they go back and literally add thousands of items, there are a lot of limitations on how you could personalize. As someone above mentioned, for it to really realize it’s best potential, it’d need to be like Minecraft, where about the only limits are imagination. That’s an awful
Ot of work to code into the game. It’s basically a whole other game. What do people want, housing, or new raid content, etc.? Because, that would probably be the tradeoff necessary.

I think your idea revolves more around function, but I really think ascetics are the big appeal to most people asking for player housing. Not sure Blizz will want to invest the resources to really do it right, but…I guess we shall see.

By: Kal

Kal — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 20:16:36 +0000

Still sounds like a pipedream, but a pretty cool pipedream. Certainly a feasible pipedream. Maybe even a possible pipedream. I guess not a pipedream at all. Player Housing for all! Cheers!

By: Riegnman

Riegnman — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 18:14:06 +0000

Or a guild hall like in the web series “The Guild” . . .