Guild Wars 2

My guess is with the things Anet keeps adding for the home instance like nodes and cats that is going to be their version of housing. I could be wrong but that is what it seems like so far.

They should add different personal instances in the future, small instanced parts from Tyria so we could decorate them, just like dimensions (housing) in Rift. The current Home instances are not optimal for decorations because there’s not enough space to put stuff in there, especailly if people fill them up with nodes. Not to mention the prebuilt stuff like houses, lab, etc. What if my Sylvari wants to decorate a snowy cave for herself? We need different kind of personal instances. I know that’s a lot of work and might never happen but I can dream, right?

I’d just be happy if we could start decorating a part of our Home Instance as an actual home.
Say for the Humans, be given one of the houses there are you own home to decorate as you will; Norns could have a portion of their hall to personalize etc.

Racial themed decorations would be nice too, but that would really be pushing it I guess. Ah well

This is another topic that has been discussed too many times both here and on other sites. Time to put it to rest.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/hot/Personal-Housing/first
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Player-Housing-anytime-soon/first
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Personal-Housing/first#post5421572
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Player-housing-homes/first#post4911042
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/On-Mounts-Housing/first

Shuzsie.9263:

I know this has been bought up before but I’m levelling my scribing at the moment and I can see all the wonderful things u can make. I don’t get to decorate the guild hall as that has already been taken over by some guildies. I would love to decorate my own place. It would be great to have instances with a lot of houses in it. I know everyone isn’t into housing but not everyone is into raids and we have them.

That is indeed a really creative idea though it’s been like 3 years that this idea is coming up every year but It seems that they don’t care or they might believe that housing will change the overall idea of the game ! But I am with you I really love the idea and also would be great to make your own choice of where to live in the world. You could live in a small house in Divinity’s reach or in Rata Sum or even where ever you want ! But would be more organized idea to be able to choose some “where to live” choices that Anet will give you ! How ever you will be able to loot like furniture or house accessories you know house stuff and even paint your house with the dyes that you have available or craft the furniture and decorate them where ever you want in your house !! I really love that idea and It would be great to see that in-game which i believe the only way to add big things like that is by making a new expansion !! I don’t think that Anet will come one day and add the housing features without asking us or letting us know !!

No interest in this, other games do it better.

CMM.6712:

No interest in this, other games do it better.

Well, the good thing is that it would be optional. Like, I’m not interested in raiding, other games do it better… :P

Well if you think that houses are available for every race you just can’t decorate them and also in Gw2 “House” is more like a location not a private box that you can decorate . Personally I love the idea of housing and if you think that Anet came up with the idea of decorting your guild hall is one step closer to it might happen or it might not ! I think people must stop to judge until they try something I went to the posts that Blude added and that is what I think !

1) Personaly I think it would be great idea
2) It would be hard to make so expect it in something big (like expansions)
3) it would be great to have the ability to be optional so some people can stop argue whether is good or unnecessary if you want to have the housing experience do so if you don’t just keep playing the game without housing experience ! Take it or leave it ! It’s up to you !

Mea.5491:

CMM.6712:

No interest in this, other games do it better.

Well, the good thing is that it would be optional. Like, I’m not interested in raiding, other games do it better… :P

I see guild hall decorations and home instance nodes being the GW2 version of this. I wouldn’t mind seeing things like this expanded on, but not at a large expense of dev resources and time.

I think they have been better lately with getting new content out and I hope that continues. By content I mean maps/story/quests.

On player housing: Do want. Not expecting.

I’d definitely like to see the home instances plot out the locations for nodes a little better. It’s just weird to see where some of them live, since they were shoehorned in post-release.

And yeah, being able to add some scribe furniture would give me a reason to make some.

I’m ambivalent towards player housing. I’ve already got a home instance and a guild hall.

I think its good to have a house of your own in your Home Instance that can be decorated. I don’t consider the Nodes in the Home Instance to be “decorating”. You have no choice where to put them.

I would also like to know who all these people in my Home Instance are. Since it’s my Home, I should know them all.

Would be nice if home instance was more like an actual house and actually let us place stuff in it like Guild Halls do.

JustTrogdor.7892:

My guess is with the things Anet keeps adding for the home instance like nodes and cats that is going to be their version of housing. I could be wrong but that is what it seems like so far.

I’m thinking they could release player housing as a new customisable “home instance” in an expansion I.E your character for plot reasons goes to Elona and needs a base there which forms the basis for a new instance with actual customization.

I have issues with the current home instances,
1. They’re not customisable , I can’t move the nodes, npc’s ,cats or anything in it.
2. It’s not a house, all the instances are communal areas of some form (yes even the sylvari one). (This complaint extends to guildhalls too , I also like my guildhalls free of vines and looking pristine.)
3. They don’t perform any of the player housing functions such as showing off and long term goals/ development, a place you’d enjoy spending time.
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What I’d like to see would be , say a combination of a hall of monuments/player housing.
You start off with a smallish building and it expands different sections as you hit milestones lets say they’re called halls, so you have:

Hall of Achievements:
Expands every 5k achievement points, unlockes various decorations and functions for specific achievements, I.E if you have dungeoneer you get portals to all the dungeon entrances , each 10 pvp rank unlocks a picture of that rank for the wall etc.

Hall of Equipment
Expands every 500 skins unlocked
Ideally you could display all your unlocked skins and armor, practically , I’d say each complete armor/ weapon skin (except black lion) gives an unlockable decoration with that set or Manichean for armor. Legendaries, and other special skins (gw2 hat, radient, backpieces etc) could have their own unlocks.

This would be a massive draw for me , I spend 90% of my time unlocking stuff but never see any of it.

Hall of companions
Expands every 50 minis, with special unlocks for high tier mini’s i.e Liandri, Tiger cub, Gerant etc.
Can also contain a zoo with all the ranger pets that are unlocked, any cats and other misc things unlocked.

possible extra
Hall of Battle
could be a separate one for Wvw and PvP, with rank unlocks, pvp league levels etc having their own unlocks.

Basically I want a space that is completely developed based on what I’ve accomplished in game (and hopefully as far away from gold and gems as possible).

More than a “home” instance, I would like to have a place in the “world” to put all the stuff I have collected. Mostly unique exotic weapons, notable rare items and books, specially books. I know we have the bank for that… but it feels weird to have lots of items you never can actually see after you put them in your inventary.

Well, the Devs did state around the release of GW2 that housing would be coming…

Unfortunately, they stated that housing would be coming with Guild Halls, and, alas, that didn’t happen.

Still, they did have plans for real housing. Maybe, they still do.

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/18447-guild-info-discussion-thread/page-7#entry887047

I have been looking forward to Player housing years ago but it seems nothing is done towards it (since Arenanet is silent on this matter). Sharing what i posted in [Suggestions] Gemstore Items – https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Suggestions-Gemstore-Items/page/85#post6365999

To be able to decorate the home instance would be nice..they just did it in another game I play.
You have the option of a “free” apartment in capital city after a small quest. It is account wide, so in a way it is a free port to different parts of the map. Anything more then that you can pay gold or actual money.
What gives it coolness is there are blueprints all over the world that can be found and made.
I know some players who have used a GOOD amount of real money to get things a certain way.

To be honest I keep forgetting about home instances, until I wander over to where it is and then am reminded about it.

So yeah it would be nice, especially in random parts of the world..but most likely won’t happen.

Yup, I would like to see some player housing.