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[Column] General: Looks Like a Good Year for Player Housing
SBFord
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Some of my colleagues have already taken us through the year in MMOs that was in 2013 and shared a taste of what's to come and what we're anticipating. Like you, we're players who enjoy the genre and don't always agree on what's fun or what will hold our interests. What does stand out is what several of 2014's games (and games we expect to release this year) are doing on one particular front: housing.
Read more of Christina Gonzalez's The Social Hub: Looks Like a Good Year for Player Housing.
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so basically...
go lock yourself behind doors- so you can get on your computer and....
virtually lock yourself behind doors.
not thank you.
devs could be focusing on much more innovative game designs...imo.
wow...really orbitxo?
housing has been in games since UO.
i for one look forward to our new slumlords.
and Ms Gonzalez if your "eyes widened" any more your head would split open.
"There are at least two kinds of games.
One could be called finite, the other infinite.
A finite game is played for the purpose of winning,
an infinite game for the purpose of continuing play."
Finite and Infinite Games, James Carse
Wanting a place for your character to call home in a "Role Playing Game"
That's right orbitxo -- shame on them
Personally, I love the trend of player housing in games. Makes it feel much more like a world.
I hope more games incorporate both player and guild housing in their games.
Hell hath no fury like an MMORPG player scorned.
Housing is a gift that keeps on giving and it's a shame that more games don't have it. It allow collector's and trophy hunters a nice place to put their stuff and people like to fiddle with things they can customize.
It's a great tool that a developer can build once, and with minimal upkeep create content to go in it.
Back in the old times there was a game called Star Wars Galaxies. It had the best housing ever. You could create items from other items and make your own custom designed rooms. If you weren't as creative you could use the furniture already provided by crafters. I myself built a house that was my tailor shop. I even created a sewing machine it was crafted from ship parts but when I placed them together it looked like a real sewing machine with a needle and all. People would actually come to our town to see our houses for inspiration. We were a role playing town and every house had a theme. Including my bunker which served as an underground jail. We had so much fun using our own imaginations in that game then just doing quests after quests and dungeons. But those days are gone, if you can find a community of players like that now I'd be surprised. Now people group up to do things and barely say hello, they group, kill and disband..how unsocialble, mmo's are no longer mmoRPGS...sadly.
The day western MMORPG's focus on things like player housing, character creation, player creativity is the day you start seeing MMORPG's move back in the right direction.
We are seeing the trend come back, but it's not here yet. More WOW clones on the way people where instant gratification and non stop hand holding through your entire journey is required. I laugh when people get excited for these upcoming releases, they don't know their asses from their elbows.
I can't believe Wow is going to CHARGE for housing on top of a sub - what the hell?? The company that still makes 100 million a month, and has promised housing "eventually" during beta and vanilla, is now going to charge me above my sub??? Haha, I think not. This is the stupid sh!t MMOs do that give F2P models power.
The only way this makes sense is if they plan to go F2P with Draenor.
No bitchers.
Somebody, somewhere has better skills as you have, more experience as you have, is smarter than you, has more friends as you do and can stay online longer. Just pray he's not out to get you.
It is part of the game and included in the subscription, granted the way she worded sounds like it isn't. Either she worded it poorly or she is wrong. Garrisons aren't even optional since you need them to progress the story in WoD. That said, I'm not even sure Garrisons are actually housing. When you list the features someone would generally include in housing those features aren't in WoD, or at least haven't been announced. Garrisons sound more like a restricted version of town building from an RTS like the old Orcs vs. Humans.
Same. What I have played so far is fantastic, but I didn't get high enough to check out the housing. They really seem to be doing some interesting stuff with their housing. I wish Rift would have found ways to make their version of Housing actually usefull, you can make some cool stuff but when you are done building something there is no reason to go back.
Yep. Good year for Player Housing in MMOs.
Well that is unless you are going to be playing ESO, then ITS TOO HARD
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yep, horrible choice of wording on her part (or maybe it was on purpose...) but Garrisons are not a feature you have to pay for...it is included with the expansion, so technically you are "paying" for Garrisons when you buy the expansion.