Guild Wars 2

1. Wouldn’t it be nice and quite unique for players to have houses? which of course can be furnished and colored how each player likes, something like coloring the armor thing tab:) and which other players can visit of course

2. houses should be in different styles, acording to each race, that being said it would be nice to let other races have others races house style, like for example a charr live in a sylvary style house….you get the point

3. also inside the house and armory would be awesome, like to have manequins and weapons uhm…frames?(i think thats how they’re called) in which we can show off our armor sets and weapon skins taht we might not use anymore

4. maybe even hire npc like vendors/crafting npc’s/crafting tables/ mini mystic forges/black lion npc inside the house, of course, some of the more special npc’s would be more expensive or be like gem store items, like the mini forge and black lion npc’s

5. maybe have a mini garden/mine/tree’s which we can plant and have them grow from time to time, yea sure this could be exploited but im sure arenanet guys could nerf it so it cant be exploited

6. maybe some fun minigames that you guys could come up for the host and visiting friends could play

anyway these are just ideas which im 100% sure would make the game even more unique, im sure it wont be easy tho i think everyone would love to have a home of their dreams:)

these are only suggestions,they dont need all to be put into a house tho it would be perfect in my opinion:)) if you guys have other better ideas then minelpease share and i might add it to the list:)

EDITED:
Why do people keep saying about the home instance of each race? thats not what i meant, these homes instances are more like >RACE home BASE<, im talking about A PLAYERS OWN PERSONAL HOME, LIKE AN APARTMENT or A HOUSE!:) where he can do random stuff, just for kittens and giggles and maybe a bit of material gathering (just a bit tho), giving him the feel of depth and atachment towards his character

Personally i believe housing shouldnt be done in an open world because come no, it would be a remake of the whole maps plus the maps are good they way they are, housing SHOULD be done as instance, and the houses would be listed in a TAB containing diff information

A good example of game that has this feature is ArcheAge (wildstar too but the archage looks more realistic then the cartoony wildstar, yet the concept is there and its awesome) imagine what GW2 could achieve with this feature?

Personally i’ve played TONS of MMO’s, and i do think ArenaNet is one of the few that somewhat listens to its comunity and engages with it, of course dont expect doing everything the comunity wants becasue most ppl say they want this and that but dont think on the consequence on the game, which the creators would know best

So housing should be done in instance mode and as customizable as it can be, MAYBE no the building of it itself, you coud have like 5 style sylvaru house but the furnashing and coloring is done by you, i think this would also be enough of variations for a start before going FULL customizable

If we are able to construct our home districts with new banners/ribbons. Construct beds and everything, we use raw materials.

Such as silk for Silk blankets

Wood for wooden chairs (that we can actually sit on rather than the dirty floor)

What homes would these be?

Chaos.7231:

What homes would these be?

Your home instance. You go there during your story quest.

Are you asking if we currently can or if ANet can add this at some time?
If currently can, then no. We can not.
If they can add it later, maybe. Depends if they add player housing at some time.

Astral Projections.7320:

Are you asking if we currently can or if ANet can add this at some time?
If currently can, then no. We can not.
If they can add it later, maybe. Depends if they add player housing at some time.

IIRC Anet said they were more interested in making the home instance change over what choices you made in the personal story.

Strangely enough, no-body cares what effect it will have on their home instance…since people are way, way more invested in making a home instance or home zone that they have freedom of creation in.

nethykins.7986:

Astral Projections.7320:

Are you asking if we currently can or if ANet can add this at some time?
If currently can, then no. We can not.
If they can add it later, maybe. Depends if they add player housing at some time.

IIRC Anet said they were more interested in making the home instance change over what choices you made in the personal story.

Strangely enough, no-body cares what effect it will have on their home instance…since people are way, way more invested in making a home instance or home zone that they have freedom of creation in.

They did say before the game was released that player housing was a possible feature that might do.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Upcoming_changes_and_features
Housing: Guild halls and player housing in their home instance.

So, who knows. Maybe one day.

I haven’t been back to my home instance since I did area completion in the cities. At this point it’s a failed concept imo. At least with the Hall of Monuments in gw1 you were able to update that with tapestries, armor, minipets, weapons, and statues. The personal instance in gw2 is impersonal.

Astral Projections.7320:

nethykins.7986:

Astral Projections.7320:

Are you asking if we currently can or if ANet can add this at some time?
If currently can, then no. We can not.
If they can add it later, maybe. Depends if they add player housing at some time.

IIRC Anet said they were more interested in making the home instance change over what choices you made in the personal story.

Strangely enough, no-body cares what effect it will have on their home instance…since people are way, way more invested in making a home instance or home zone that they have freedom of creation in.

They did say before the game was released that player housing was a possible feature that might do.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Upcoming_changes_and_features
Housing: Guild halls and player housing in their home instance.

So, who knows. Maybe one day.

I haven’t been back to my home instance since I did area completion in the cities. At this point it’s a failed concept imo. At least with the Hall of Monuments in gw1 you were able to update that with tapestries, armor, minipets, weapons, and statues. The personal instance in gw2 is impersonal.

I went back to a home instance belonging to one of my older characters recently and was surprised to find it looking like a Priory library. There wasn’t much to do there though. Have to agree on the failed concept.

nethykins.7986:

Astral Projections.7320:

Are you asking if we currently can or if ANet can add this at some time?
If currently can, then no. We can not.
If they can add it later, maybe. Depends if they add player housing at some time.

IIRC Anet said they were more interested in making the home instance change over what choices you made in the personal story.

Strangely enough, no-body cares what effect it will have on their home instance…since people are way, way more invested in making a home instance or home zone that they have freedom of creation in.

Ppl tend to hate to have choose they make in a game effect looks of home instance or something like it because ppl enjoy playing the game in a “troll” ish way to the npc and they do not like having consequence to though random choose.

In a way gamers hate consequences to there actions in a game.

Astral Projections.7320:

nethykins.7986:

Astral Projections.7320:

Are you asking if we currently can or if ANet can add this at some time?
If currently can, then no. We can not.
If they can add it later, maybe. Depends if they add player housing at some time.

IIRC Anet said they were more interested in making the home instance change over what choices you made in the personal story.

Strangely enough, no-body cares what effect it will have on their home instance…since people are way, way more invested in making a home instance or home zone that they have freedom of creation in.

They did say before the game was released that player housing was a possible feature that might do.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Upcoming_changes_and_features
Housing: Guild halls and player housing in their home instance.

So, who knows. Maybe one day.

I haven’t been back to my home instance since I did area completion in the cities. At this point it’s a failed concept imo. At least with the Hall of Monuments in gw1 you were able to update that with tapestries, armor, minipets, weapons, and statues. The personal instance in gw2 is impersonal.

I guess perhaps I was looking into it wrong. The at PAX this is what Massively reported from ANet. But tbh, I wouldn’t be surprised if they realized “Aaahhh! kitten!! Look at all these other games with housing and look at all those people getting really happy about it…time to change our priorities!”

A few paragraphs down:
“That led to an obvious question about whether or not home instances would start to become more like housing, at which point we were informed that the team sees home instances serving a different purpose than housing. Apparently the home instance is meant more as a reminder of your personal story rather than as a place for characters to return to as a home base.”

Full article here:
http://massively.joystiq.com/2013/03/24/pax-east-2013-arenanet-on-guild-wars-2s-near-and-far-future/

Your Home instance is USELESS. The changes that occur there, are all from the personal story, and they are all minor unimportant stuff.

It’s not as interesting as A-net hoped it would be, especially since the story was so uninteresting it self.

I would make everything out of candy corn and (soon) zhaitan candy. Just because theyll be dirt cheap.

Kite.2510:

Your Home instance is USELESS. The changes that occur there, are all from the personal story, and they are all minor unimportant stuff.

It’s not as interesting as A-net hoped it would be, especially since the story was so uninteresting it self.

Of all the things Anet did wrong, I think this one is the most egregious. All the bugs, the balance issues, the conceptual ideas that didn’t quite pan out they they’d hoped, those I can understand and easily forgive. But for the home instances to be as bland and almost-pointless as they are feels like they abandoned whatever idea they had halfway through development.

Yes, I’d like more of say, the Sims put into the game. Something to do beyond mindless killing.

and a zoo for allll my mini’s XD

DeWolfe.2174:

Yes, I’d like more of say, the Sims put into the game. Something to do beyond mindless killing.

uhm is this sarcasm? what i said can really be done you know -_-" there are games who have housing system, just that im sure arenanet can make it quite costumizable too

Magische Boek.2530:

and a zoo for allll my mini’s XD

that would be quite nice i admit:) tho not all the minis cause it would be too much:)) maybe 3-5 fav minis:)

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nethykins.7986:

Astral Projections.7320:

nethykins.7986:

Astral Projections.7320:

Are you asking if we currently can or if ANet can add this at some time?
If currently can, then no. We can not.
If they can add it later, maybe. Depends if they add player housing at some time.

IIRC Anet said they were more interested in making the home instance change over what choices you made in the personal story.

Strangely enough, no-body cares what effect it will have on their home instance…since people are way, way more invested in making a home instance or home zone that they have freedom of creation in.

They did say before the game was released that player housing was a possible feature that might do.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Upcoming_changes_and_features
Housing: Guild halls and player housing in their home instance.

So, who knows. Maybe one day.

I haven’t been back to my home instance since I did area completion in the cities. At this point it’s a failed concept imo. At least with the Hall of Monuments in gw1 you were able to update that with tapestries, armor, minipets, weapons, and statues. The personal instance in gw2 is impersonal.

I guess perhaps I was looking into it wrong. The at PAX this is what Massively reported from ANet. But tbh, I wouldn’t be surprised if they realized “Aaahhh! kitten!! Look at all these other games with housing and look at all those people getting really happy about it…time to change our priorities!”

A few paragraphs down:
“That led to an obvious question about whether or not home instances would start to become more like housing, at which point we were informed that the team sees home instances serving a different purpose than housing. Apparently the home instance is meant more as a reminder of your personal story rather than as a place for characters to return to as a home base.”

Full article here:
http://massively.joystiq.com/2013/03/24/pax-east-2013-arenanet-on-guild-wars-2s-near-and-far-future/

Since wiki is not maintained by ANet, it’s information is undoubtably outdated and the article is more current. But it seems fairly clear to me that there will be player housing, unless there isn’t, and it won’t be in the home instance, unless it is. ^^

The home instances were really hyped as a key element of the game that would reflect the choices you made during the storyline and maybe even your actions in the game world. They continued that hype almost until the end of 2011.

Well, that hype was never, ever realized and probably never will be.

My guess? They probably did develop this feature for Human character’s and the home instance in Divinity’s reach. then they probably realized they didn’t have time to do the same for the other races, so they scrapped the concept entirely.

It’s a shame, because it was one of the coolest concepts they talked about that never materialized.

Another NCSoft title in development, Wildstar, will have housing right from launch and that housing is actually a meaningful part of game play. I think players wanting housing will have a shorter wait on Wildstar than they will have on such features making it into GW2.

I vote for a dimension style home system. It was the best out there ever built.

I agree with Fiontar I don’t see GW2 lasting really with Wildstar coming without having these types of things updated in this game. Use the profits you’ve made already for this game, it’s definitely necessary or you’ll have an exodus on your hands I’m sure of it.

Yuujin.1067:

Chaos.7231:

What homes would these be?

Your home instance. You go there during your story quest.

You also leave and never go back after level 30, I think Anet should give it some attention.

When they first talked about the home instance before launch, I thought it would be somewhere important, like a central hub I could congregate in with several other people.

Housing should be in the open world, not in some personal instance. Anet should have a look at ArcheAge if they want inspiration for housing.

tigirius.9014:

I vote for a dimension style home system. It was the best out there ever built.

I agree with Fiontar I don’t see GW2 lasting really with Wildstar coming without having these types of things updated in this game. Use the profits you’ve made already for this game, it’s definitely necessary or you’ll have an exodus on your hands I’m sure of it.

I’ve seen you make variations of this “GW2 is going to be dead soon” in so many threads I’ve lost count. The sad part is you often make them in such jarringly off-topic ways it looks like you’re attempting to derail the topic at hand. Criticism I don’t mind, incessant negativity I do. If you dislike this game so much you’d probably be a lot happier finding a game you do enjoy playing instead of hanging around here trying to convince us all the game is bad and/or dying.

Devata.6589:

Housing should be in the open world, not in some personal instance. Anet should have a look at ArcheAge if they want inspiration for housing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWP-DudjDBU

Be careful what you wish for…
GW2 maps go for the “detail over quantity” approach. If players were to build random structures here and there, the world wold be full.

darkace.8925:

tigirius.9014:

I vote for a dimension style home system. It was the best out there ever built.

I agree with Fiontar I don’t see GW2 lasting really with Wildstar coming without having these types of things updated in this game. Use the profits you’ve made already for this game, it’s definitely necessary or you’ll have an exodus on your hands I’m sure of it.

I’ve seen you make variations of this “GW2 is going to be dead soon” in so many threads I’ve lost count. The sad part is you often make them in such jarringly off-topic ways it looks like you’re attempting to derail the topic at hand. Criticism I don’t mind, incessant negativity I do. If you dislike this game so much you’d probably be a lot happier finding a game you do enjoy playing instead of hanging around here trying to convince us all the game is bad and/or dying.

Unfortunately, I do think Wildstar is going to be a threat to GW2.
Currently we’ve got a great looking game but the core game which retains people is just not there anymore or is dwindling.

GW2 may have a lot of content coming in, but it’s main issue is that the same content goes out in the space of a month. If content is coming then going, the focus on the main PVE experience and retaining players beyond that one off content begins to crumble in on itself.

…I’ve said it once, so I’ll say it again.
If the foundation on your plot of land is shoddy, and could do with some work, but all you keep doing is building something new, wrecking it, and building something new again, it will only weaken your foundation, time after time.

What I see in Wildstar is what I originally saw in previews for GW2. But this time, the veiled response to no endgame being “everything is endgame” does not exist. It has one. It is trying to do some different things with crafting. It’s trying to make casuals feel at home (excuse the pun) by actually giving them space for making a fully customizable home, and not an irrelevant home instance.

Of course’ I’m not saying Wildstar is perfect, but it’kittenting points before lanuch that GW2 is currently missing and won’t seem to have resolved until perhaps another year. (if they’re continually adamant on focusing on Living story.)

Kite.2510:

Devata.6589:

Housing should be in the open world, not in some personal instance. Anet should have a look at ArcheAge if they want inspiration for housing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWP-DudjDBU

Be careful what you wish for…
GW2 maps go for the “detail over quantity” approach. If players were to build random structures here and there, the world wold be full.

The way ArcheAge solves that is that there are area’s where you can buy or hire a space to build your house. So you are very free to build where you like but you can not build literally everywhere in the world. New maps could be build around that idea.

darkace.8925:

tigirius.9014:

I vote for a dimension style home system. It was the best out there ever built.

I agree with Fiontar I don’t see GW2 lasting really with Wildstar coming without having these types of things updated in this game. Use the profits you’ve made already for this game, it’s definitely necessary or you’ll have an exodus on your hands I’m sure of it.

I’ve seen you make variations of this “GW2 is going to be dead soon” in so many threads I’ve lost count. The sad part is you often make them in such jarringly off-topic ways it looks like you’re attempting to derail the topic at hand. Criticism I don’t mind, incessant negativity I do. If you dislike this game so much you’d probably be a lot happier finding a game you do enjoy playing instead of hanging around here trying to convince us all the game is bad and/or dying.

The mmo world is a market. If they can’t adapt to the market the game will die stating that fact doesn’t make it incessantly negative. I’m sorry you can’t handle the truth but they are way way overdue for an UI and features update and NCsoft isn’t helping by sending their money elsewhere. Letting them know that this is not acceptable is hardly derailing the topic at hand.

Housing is a feature you know.

Devata.6589:

Kite.2510:

Devata.6589:

Housing should be in the open world, not in some personal instance. Anet should have a look at ArcheAge if they want inspiration for housing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWP-DudjDBU

Be careful what you wish for…
GW2 maps go for the “detail over quantity” approach. If players were to build random structures here and there, the world wold be full.

The way ArcheAge solves that is that there are area’s where you can buy or hire a space to build your house. So you are very free to build where you like but you can not build literally everywhere in the world. New maps could be build around that idea.

That would certainly help I think AoC did something similar where there were zones that were made specifically for guild halls cept these zones were basically PVP only since this part of the game was built around guilds attacking other guild halls.