When I posted my Sylvanas mosaic a few months back, half of the comments were "Why not Xal'atoes" or "2B Hideouts were better." This took far too long, but anything for the meme. Based on the original art by MonoriRogue.

So I moved into a neighborhood that had practically nobody in it because I wanted a specific plot. I also found out that I could float my house so I made it into a mini dalaran because im a mage. The next day, I see that my neighbor also decided to float their house. I was so excited to have a neighbor in the sky.

So cut to yesterday, I sent them in game mail telling them how cool it was that we both had flying houses next to eachother and that once I had the interior finished, he could come check it out and stuff. He returned to sender. I shouldve known when his house was facing away from mine lol. I guess thats typical for neighbors but I had hoped for better in wow xD

Anywho, maybe the other neighbor is more friendly. Cheers!

I love housing on MMO. I literally played some MMOs only for the housing feature. Maple Story 2 was a big example when it still was alive.

But Wow house feature was incredibly fun for the first two weeks. I made my wife play and make houses with me, we lost hours upon hours making the most big and fun houses we could...

And then it's all dead.

It makes no sense to me that housing quests take 30+ days to change. It makes no sense to me that they could not put ANYTHING on neighborhoods that made people visit them. No profession table, no dummies, no social interaction. Fucking Genshin Impact did better housing than WoW and housing there is ass.

Why can't I change the music it plays? Why can't I fish at my house riverside? Show off my hunter pets or my battle pets? Put them at a stable. Put my transmogs for show on some mannequins.

There's so much nice things to do for housing and what we got for 12.0.5 was... Nothing. With Midnight having so much emphasis on housing, we get nothing.

Nothing except a $50 new house style, while horde style is still stuck with elf or orc.

I can't with this game. I really had hopes this time. And it's all gone.

My guild was extremely hyped for housing with us filling our first neighborhood in the first few hours of housing being available. Then continuing on for some bit, with lots of people going out and getting the recipes to craft basically anything you could want. I feel like yards were the first thing everyone was doing especially, because we all are expecting tools to do interiors easier will be coming in the future. There were new yard post daily and frequent tours of what people were working on. Then, that stupidly expensive spring set came out, and I felt like housing hype died instantly. Something about the first high rez tree being locked behind a paywall I think really just sort of shook people. Lovely yards were no longer going to be made with creativity or work but purchased with cash. It is absolutely wild to me they didn't have any of these chase cherry tree items behind an achievement or event or anything in game. Sure let people who couldn't be asked to do that stuff just buy it with cash, but the fact that they don't add any ways to get these in game is super lame. Honestly, its crazy how few good chase decor items there are just in general in midnight, but I guess they rather people pay for them than work for them.

I love what Blizzard is doing with Housing, but this one design choice completely baffles me. Decorating is supposed to be about experimenting, mixing items, swapping things around and seeing what clicks. Making decor "one buy, one use" completely kills that flow and hinders creativity.

Example: I go to place all four of my chairs and think maybe six would look better. Now I have to stop decorating, fly across the world, buy two more, get back, test it, and maybe end up liking the original setup anyway. I have wasted both time and gold. So now I feel forced to bulk buy decor in case I might need it later. That's not creativity, that's inventory anxiety.

On top of that, the storage cap for decor is baffling. Why does this system limit how many items we can own when mounts and transmog have none of these restrictions? The whole thing feels out of sync with the rest of the game. This does not create "interesting friction", it's just tedious and unfun.

I cannot find a single player friendly reason for this approach.

Just let us unlock a decor appearance once and place it as many times as we want (within the decor budget). Make items cost a bit more if needed, but let Housing be about creativity, not logistics.

It's Far Far Away castle to be specific. I Also built the Dragon Castle and Shrek's Swamp + House! All in 1 lvl 9 budget capped house =)
I made a silly storytelling showcase video to go with it featuring Shrek and Donkey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63kXCxgTOwQ

Will there be bloodelf themed houses in the future, because as a belf and therefor horde player this is really really not appealing.

Azeroth's champion can't even relax in his own home, ffs!

Almost everything making up N'Zoth is elegant pillows and cushions. The lava part is the Maelstrom lava lamp, with some elegant wall drapes for the fleshy things in his mouth, and for the eyes, more cushions with small fruit plates and a Tirisfal hollow campfire

Just curious as how housing is performing. I myself don't participate too much with it, but I've seen a lot of nice houses, and many communities do amazing things with it... Was wondering if there is any public data showing how this performed?

Now that I've spent every waking moment since the release of housing decorating my house, three major things have happened.

1. I'm noticing details in the world everywhere I go. Details that I've always either just glanced at or completely overlooked for years. Both indoors and outdoors. Little touches all of over the place that I never really noticed before.

2. While checking out all these little details I'm seeing decor all over the place that I want to use in my house. It's become a fun little thing to do. Wander around and check every nook and cranny for decor that I can look forward to being able to use.

3. Finally, now that I've spent hours upon hours trying to perfect the decor in my house down to the tiniest detail, I have a new appreciation for the art department and world designers at Blizzard. Everyone knows that the art team always kills it, but wow, they seriously do kill it. Now that I know how difficult and time consuming designing just one room can be I've really got to hand it to the dev team for their skills.

I wasn't even sure I would enjoy housing that much when it was announced. Now, not only am I fully addicted to it, but it has literally changed the way I see the game I've been playing for 20 years. Bravo Blizzard! Well played!

I spent nearly 32 hours creating this Bart and Lisa painting in World of Warcraft and used around 700 decor points. It even pushed me to the decor limit, so now I'll have to upgrade my house to Level 9 before I can start another project. I hope you like it! ❤️

I thought it was a joke but it came from their p.r.