Guild Wars 2

I did a search on this and was surprise I didn’t find any posts on this topic.

I was wondering if there has ever been the thought of adding player housing to the game?

I have always liked the idea of “owning” my own space within a game. If done right, it adds another layer to adventuring and obtaining goods within game. Also with the graphics it would be amazing what could be built, if it were possible.

Has anyone else had this thought?

Search isn’t working, use google instead.
There are loads of treads bout this. But the reality is that most people dont realise there is player housing. it is called the home instance. The big issue is that it isn’t home. or atleast doesn’t feel like it. Off course you have the people you met during your personal story there. You also have your own home within the instance. (for example humans, either have the back allie for street rats, the pub for commoners or the house on the hill for nobels). You can’t decorate it however. Arenanets comment bout this is that they are considering to give more possibility’s. But when and if and how is totally unknown.

Keep in mind this desire only lives at a small part of the community. The most people dont care bout it.

The home instance doesn’t feel like home, since there really isn’t any customization. Also I don’t think someone can show off what they have done to others.

It would be nice to have an actual place that is separate to look at. There are several options that ArenaNet could do that I can think of.

1) Follow EverQuest 2 in that there are multiple homes and apartments, but would have to click the door, enter the person’s place where you want to visit. This was decent and could have a customizable area.

2) Follow Age of Conan and have separate instances that are like neighborhoods which allowed several large groups to be together.

3) My favorite option, but doubt it would happen is having a separate place in certain locations where each place is unique, could be resold, decorated, and personal vendors for stores (or could be hooked up to the Trading Post). Ultima Online (UO) back in the late 90s did this and was a whole dynamic by itself in the game. There were people that actually played as Virtual Real Estate people that earned gold in game flipping houses and castles.

As for being a small part of the community, I can see that, but would tailor even more depth into an awesome game already.

Just notice after doing a Google search that ArenaNet does have plans on adding a housing instance in home instances within cities on the GW2 Wiki page which was posted. I’m excited to see this coming and for those that are interested in seeing the information here is a link.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Upcoming_changes_and_features