So far housing has been quite a disappointment to me, been playing since launch and I purposely ignored/avoided all info on it so it would be a surprise... And surprise! Its a massive cash grab.
No storage, no mannequins to store and display gear on... Cant steal and place stolen stuff in house... I hope they continue to add features to it, cause as it is now, its a fail.
Ultima Online Housing was the greatest thing ever! EVER!. Waiting for a house to come down to reap all the rewards from inside, while trying to stay alive to claim everything FUN AS HELL. Second best housing is Archeage. Open world pvp with housing thats fun as well.. This ESO housing style and whole idea in itself is garbage. They should have opened up a few areas where you could actually build houses and farms . But ya know . Instance housing is stupid ...
Instanced housing is the only type of housing that works in popular MMOs. Any other kind of housing and you end up upseting and disappointing a large amount of the playerbase (which is exactly what happened with Archeage).
So before you say it's garbage, keep it to yourself, apparently others are more than happy with it.
DAS, that's not true and you know it. I know some thought SWG's housing was great but I didn't. It just resulted in vast swaths of ignored houses and urban sprawl. No thanks.
I think you are confusing cause and effect in this instance. The housing in SWG was incredible for a fair amount of time. Before they opened up the adventure planets to housing, before SOE destroyed the entire community by introducing the hologrind, then cut out its barely beating heart with the NGE screw over.
I have written more than my fair share on the SWG topic so I am going to leave it at that.
As a Star Wars fan it was kinda immersion ruining when going to the "desert planet" Tatooine, opening up the planet ingame map and looking at a Manhattan style street map where there was a house at every free spot lol.
Not to mention the ruined spawns because of it.
DAOC has had non instanced housing for 15 years. NOT ONE CREATURE EVER FAILED TO SPAWN in the housing area. I'm for freedom....player choice....building what you want .
Camelot Unchained will have player built housing.Houses designed by players..built from raw materials harvested by the player. You will be able to build in safe..or not safe areas.
When i did check the housing in ESO, i really laughed, because the free " house" was so small, it begs you to spend more cash on that eso plus or crowns. Very disappointing! Also i placed huge tree in my small room so it clipped trough the roof. At least i have that going for me.
The last 2 points are mostly the main reason why, regardless of all the crap, ArcheAge is my favorite MMO. I don't play it anymore because no one will publish a fair version of it, but it had the housing. You could decorate with pictures from your PC... if that's not custom enough. Your land was also your own personal gold mine. Even if they implement the last 2, I don't think a farm in ESO would have the same feeling because being rich / crafting isn't a big enough deal in the game. Still would be nice though, I guess.
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No storage, no mannequins to store and display gear on... Cant steal and place stolen stuff in house... I hope they continue to add features to it, cause as it is now, its a fail.
I couldn't agree less.
DAOC has had non instanced housing for 15 years. NOT ONE CREATURE EVER FAILED TO SPAWN in the housing area. I'm for freedom....player choice....building what you want .
Camelot Unchained will have player built housing.Houses designed by players..built from raw materials harvested by the player. You will be able to build in safe..or not safe areas.