Buzzbugs.1236 Posted June 15 Share Posted June 15 All of my friends who played GW2 with me since launch have already long quit the game. Housing is something we all wanted at that time. Now what's even the point? I have no friends I can invite over. 3 7 26 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parasite.5389 Posted June 15 Share Posted June 15 8 minutes ago, Buzzbugs.1236 said: All of my friends who played GW2 with me since launch have already long quit the game. Housing is something we all wanted at that time. Now what's even the point? I have no friends I can invite over. so because You have no friends, we should just scrap the idea? 10 1 10 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buzzbugs.1236 Posted June 15 Author Share Posted June 15 Just now, Parasite.5389 said: so because You have no friends, we should just scrap the idea? That's not what I said. 1 1 14 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parasite.5389 Posted June 15 Share Posted June 15 (edited) 2 minutes ago, Buzzbugs.1236 said: That's not what I said. then what are you saying? because thats what it sounds like. "whats the point, if i have no one to play with" Edited June 15 by Parasite.5389 7 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buzzbugs.1236 Posted June 15 Author Share Posted June 15 (edited) 6 minutes ago, Parasite.5389 said: then what are you saying? because thats what it sounds like. "whats the point, if i have no one to play with" It's nice that we're finally getting housing. I'm just saying, for me personally, I've been waiting so long for it that I now realized it's not even as relevant as it used to be. ArenaNet have been way too slow to bring about requested features. Better late than never. But it's still late and a lot of people who wanted housing have already left the game years ago. It's doubtful this will bring them back. Edited June 15 by Buzzbugs.1236 2 1 15 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parasite.5389 Posted June 15 Share Posted June 15 Cool.... "thanks for coming to my TED:talk"... i guess 10 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashantara.8731 Posted June 15 Share Posted June 15 20 minutes ago, Buzzbugs.1236 said: All of my friends who played GW2 with me since launch have already long quit the game. Housing is something we all wanted at that time. Now what's even the point? I have no friends I can invite over. Well, if ANet had approached every recent addition with that mindset, we would not have gotten any of the QoL updates of the past couple of years. From your negative perspective, pretty much every new addition is 12 years late, to be honest. 😄 6 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buzzbugs.1236 Posted June 15 Author Share Posted June 15 (edited) 5 minutes ago, Ashantara.8731 said: From your negative perspective, pretty much every new addition is 12 years late, to be honest. 😄 That is correct, actually. GW2 should have arrived at this point like 7 years ago, max. How long has ESO had housing for? Edited June 15 by Buzzbugs.1236 1 18 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Healix.5819 Posted June 15 Share Posted June 15 Considering what they could do with housing - there's potentially endless progression here - it's surprising they held back personal guild halls for so long, even more so when you consider it could have had its own gem store worth of additions (whereas guild halls couldn't) or VIP locations. ArenaNet seems to always want to do things in a unique way (at least before the new leadership came in), and everyone else had already done housing, which is probably why they only did guild halls, yet didn't do a guild hall vs guild hall PvP mode to really show it off. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danikat.8537 Posted June 15 Share Posted June 15 If someone said they quit because the game didn't have housing but adding housing won't bring them back it sounds like that wasn't actually the problem, or it was one of many problems and it's unlikely adding it in earlier would have made a difference. No game is going to work for everyone, and IMO that's not a bad thing because it means we as players can have a variety of games to choose from. But I also agree that your post sounds like it's putting Anet in an impossible position: they shouldn't add new features because the game should already have them. Short of inventing a time machine to go back and do things differently, and finding a way to address whatever prevented them doing it before (because there's no chance it's just that they didn't think of it until now) the only options are to add things in future or...never add anything new to the game? 17 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Portico.2354 Posted June 15 Share Posted June 15 It will only be irrelevant if it's just a reimplementation of existing features (home instance and guild halls) and doesn't add any new features (actually building houses rather than just moving furniture around; mini games to play in the instance with friends for rewards; displays for characters, armors, titles, or whatever; etc...) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bladestrom.6425 Posted June 15 Share Posted June 15 1 hour ago, Buzzbugs.1236 said: That is correct, actually. GW2 should have arrived at this point like 7 years ago, max. How long has ESO had housing for? And yet you have not posted until now that you wanted housing, how was Anet to know!. Anet prioritised other stuff that people wanted more. Housing is finally at the top of the feature list and GW2 is not going anywhere, so rather than complaining that the content you wanted has arrived too late, why not just enjoy the new content? Incidentally those players that left could ofc return and pick up exactly where they left off. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiroho.4738 Posted June 15 Share Posted June 15 (edited) 2 hours ago, Buzzbugs.1236 said: All of my friends who played GW2 with me since launch have already long quit the game. Housing is something we all wanted at that time. Now what's even the point? I have no friends I can invite over. Better late than never. What's your point? 2 hours ago, Buzzbugs.1236 said: ArenaNet have been way too slow to bring about requested features. Better late than never. But it's still late and a lot of people who wanted housing have already left the game years ago. 1.) Anet brought requested features all the time in the last 11 years. Saying they are way too slow is in fact wrong. 2.) That's what happens when you leave a game. The game keeps evolving and you will miss the new stuff. That's absolutely normal. And let's be realistic, if you friends won't come back for housing, they didn't leave because of missing housing in the first place. Edited June 15 by kiroho.4738 7 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashen.2907 Posted June 15 Share Posted June 15 (edited) The only way to avoid this situation and this feedback would be for a company to include every possible feature and every possible feedback at the game's launch. Thousands of maps, millions of classes, uncountable game modes, a nearly infinite number of QoL features, millions of gameplay features, and so on. Many of them being mutually exclusive. I don't imagine that this would cost the players much more than a few hundred million dollars, or low billions, each. Edited June 15 by Ashen.2907 5 3 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linken.6345 Posted June 15 Share Posted June 15 1 hour ago, Portico.2354 said: It will only be irrelevant if it's just a reimplementation of existing features (home instance and guild halls) and doesn't add any new features (actually building houses rather than just moving furniture around; mini games to play in the instance with friends for rewards; displays for characters, armors, titles, or whatever; etc...) Yea there is no way this will not get boted to high heavens since its instanced and noone will be able to spot it if you can earn rewards in your personal home instance with up to 5 accounts. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Portico.2354 Posted June 15 Share Posted June 15 4 minutes ago, Linken.6345 said: Yea there is no way this will not get boted to high heavens since it’s instanced and noone will be able to spot it if you can earn rewards in your personal home instance with up to 5 accounts. It doesn’t have to be a reward system that’s competitive with other reward systems. Preferably it would be designed so it cannot be botted. Think sanctum sprint etc. It just needs to be an excuse to hang out in there without feeling completely counterproductive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manpag.6421 Posted June 15 Share Posted June 15 I'm mostly just confused why housing is apparently a massive make-or-break feature for people. Sure, it's another way to express your individuality (albeit in a way that other people have to choose to see, unlike fashion wars) and a place to spend downtime, but that's it. What am I missing? What kind of player does housing cater to? What do people do in player housing in other games, apart from sit around RPing? I'm not saying we shouldn't have it, I'm keen to see how it's implemented, but it seems like at best it's a minor QoL feature and a new gold sink rather than something the game has been sorely lacking. 3 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeathPanel.8362 Posted June 15 Share Posted June 15 4 hours ago, Buzzbugs.1236 said: All of my friends who played GW2 with me since launch have already long quit the game. Housing is something we all wanted at that time. Now what's even the point? I have no friends I can invite over. Functionality. QOL. Homestead should provide crafting stations, portals, vendors, etc. behind a system you can invest in to unlock all the features. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zebulous.2934 Posted June 15 Share Posted June 15 I have noticed that as I get older I don't make new friends. I realize that is a problem. Friends just feel more like a burden, an obligation. I am not surprised that OP hasn't made new friends in game, however that is the problem. Anet's timing isn't the cause of the frustration, it is the lack of friends to share with. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sobx.1758 Posted June 15 Share Posted June 15 10 years too early! 1 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linken.6345 Posted June 15 Share Posted June 15 19 minutes ago, DeathPanel.8362 said: Functionality. QOL. Homestead should provide crafting stations, portals, vendors, etc. behind a system you can invest in to unlock all the features. So a personal instanced eye of the north hub then. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeathPanel.8362 Posted June 15 Share Posted June 15 1 hour ago, Linken.6345 said: So a personal instanced eye of the north hub then. In addition, it will have craftable decorations like Guild Hideouts, and I'd prefer also having access to home instance harvesting nodes. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dean Calaway.9718 Posted June 15 Share Posted June 15 You're missing the point of housing, the point is to distract you from the Wyverns. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buzzbugs.1236 Posted June 15 Author Share Posted June 15 2 hours ago, Zebulous.2934 said: I have noticed that as I get older I don't make new friends. I realize that is a problem. Friends just feel more like a burden, an obligation. I am not surprised that OP hasn't made new friends in game, however that is the problem. Anet's timing isn't the cause of the frustration, it is the lack of friends to share with. It doesn't help that there's no player to player trading in the game. That is a MMO social interaction that is completely missing from GW2. But they might add in it a future expansion pack. As well as open world dueling. Then we can say it's only 15 years too late 🙂 1 10 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashen.2907 Posted June 15 Share Posted June 15 2 hours ago, Zebulous.2934 said: I have noticed that as I get older I don't make new friends. I realize that is a problem. Friends just feel more like a burden, an obligation. Especially when they keep walking on my lawn. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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