Guild Wars 2

I understand guild halls are something which may be implemented at a later date.

However being from a small guild i am personally a lover of having your own humble little house. Many games have pulled this off well, others not so well. And i understand how with the high amount of players it can become a problem to implement.

Which is why i feel the DAoC style housing system would work well for GW2. You have a portal instance with several area’s/instances and in each one seperate small towns with plots to purchase your own land for your house. LotRO had a similar system too, but different locations depending on the race. i.e a zone for norns, one for charrs etc…

That way you and your friends can try to purchase houses next to or near each other and popping in to each others home and use their facilities. Crafting hubs, merchants etc… It was always nice seeing our houses next to each other with the guild emblem displayed on each. A nice area to spend time in which felt like home when we didnt want to pve or pvp

From what has been stated before, player housing is definitely planned… but probably in a future expansion:

The housing stuff in GW2 we’ve talked about, we’ve said that through expansion content we will add a very robust housing system to GW2. It’s something we want to take our time to make sure we do that right and make it a really special system in the game. So that people can feel very attached to their house and really make it something unique for them.
To do that we really need to sit down for a while trying to design that system and, as I said earlier, now we are focused on getting GW2, the core game, as great as it can be for the release. We’re not looking that much into the details of what we are going to do with the expansions yet. Housing is something we will talk about more down the road when we figure out exactly how we want to do that. Whether it will be within your Home Instance or something separate we haven’t decided at this point.