Guild Wars 2

Will there be any improvements in Heart of Thrones made to the character’s home instance, particularly in terms of customization? It seems that that this feature – which was once a selling point for ArenaNet – has been mostly abandoned.

Nothing about home instances has been announced yet. I highly doubt that there will be any major improvements but we’ll have to wait and see

It honestly looks as if they’re content with our home instancing being nothing more than a place we visit once a day to harvest they nodes they sell in the gem shop.

That’s disappointing. You would think that ANet would at least find new ways to charge us for customizing our home instances apart from harvesting nodes. It would be nice if some achievements unlocked home instance options.

Housing really seems like an area Anet could really innovate in, maybe Iater update or expansion, though I’d be lying if I said I didn’t want that kind of thing ASAP. I love housing in MMOs.

The key would be maintain social aspects, thee main concern with housing tends to be it removing some of social aspect of main cities and hubs.

It’s something that could have interesting takes, and frankly, Anet might be the only ones willing the break the mold. Maybe a more societal neighbourhood system for houses. Frankly simply allowing map chat to work in home instance seems a good solution for some issues.

It may be that they will use some of the mechanics they developed for guild halls to revitalize our home instances later on. Or they will forget about it and just keep adding nodes. At this moment it’s hard to tell.