There NEEDS to be more Housing Options in cities

FelisCatus · September 3

Glorious_Platypus wrote: »

Like the selection is isn't there, man. Each city needs MULTIPLE houses, 2 or 3 of small/apartment style, 2 or 3 of medium, and 1 or 2 of larger square footage type places. Not like as big as what you'd find out in the country of course because of the setting of it being a city but you get what I mean.

Lets review some examples.
- Alinor. The crowing capital gleaming jewel city of the High Elves. In the lore, literally 10's of thousands of people would live here. One house to choose from.
- Wayrest. Regional capital, one of the largest cities in the Daggerfall Covenant. One house.
- Daggerfall city. The actual capital. One house.

I could go and list every single city in the game like this, it would be worth it because you get my point.

If you want to live in any of these places, you only have 1 choice... And if you don't like that choice, the layout, the style, or whatever other factor - you're out of luck. Like there's just plain flat out not enough variety. More options are needed.

You'd think so wouldn't you? It would be realistic but the "cities" in the games don't even feel like a town more like a village in scale. They should do what other games do where they put these facades up to make it look bigger than it is with inaccessible areas.

Jimbru · September 3

More housing in convenient places and quest hubs, yes, and I'd be willing to trade all the oversized, overpriced, and in some cases poorly designed houses scattered around the map edges for it. For example...
- In Blackwoods, I would happily trade the crappy bridge house in Leyawiin for even just an inn room in Gideon, just for the convenient location.
- Similarly in Western Skyrim, there really should be a convenient house in Morthal instead of all those scattered around the edges of the map.

kafedristoran · September 3

JustLovely wrote: »

No there does not need to be more housing in ESO. There is already too much and it's a distraction from the actual game. ZOS is on a limited staff now days and if they put time into housing it's time not being spent on the actual game.

Housing brings the biggest value for shareholders via predatory monetization -> housing is most important part of the game

AcadianPaladin · September 3

My elf would love to see a small apartment available inside each Mages Guildhall. This would not require additional housing sites - just a door inside each guildhall that leads to a small one room studio apartment. Easy. For those who like to wear (ugh) metal armor and (ugh) actually hit foes with melee weapons, I suppose the Fighters Guildhalls could provide the same thing for those so inclined.

Glorious_Platypus · September 3

kafedristoran wrote: »

JustLovely wrote: »

No there does not need to be more housing in ESO. There is already too much and it's a distraction from the actual game. ZOS is on a limited staff now days and if they put time into housing it's time not being spent on the actual game.

Housing brings the biggest value for shareholders via predatory monetization -> housing is most important part of the game

And yet we still don't get enough options. Epitome of minimum viable product

ESO_player123 · September 3

JustLovely wrote: »

No there does not need to be more housing in ESO. There is already too much and it's a distraction from the actual game. ZOS is on a limited staff now days and if they put time into housing it's time not being spent on the actual game.

Housing a distraction, ToT is a distraction. Some people just do not want to allow other people have fun in game.

fizzylu · September 4

I used to only use houses that were in cities with crafting writ quest pickup spots. Thanks to Night's Den, I finally broke that habit. Still, I miss being able to just walk out of my home to do my dailies (I always logout for the night in my house).

More than anything, I'd prefer some kind of item that let me get the daily crafting writs in my house to make even more use of my wonderfully decorated home. I'm also still pro wayshrine furnishing for homes so I can properly port from my house without spending gold, especially now that I am using a house not in a city as my sorcs home base. And yes, I can port to the outside of other houses I own.. but it's just not the same.

kafedristoran · September 4

Glorious_Platypus wrote: »

kafedristoran wrote: »

JustLovely wrote: »

No there does not need to be more housing in ESO. There is already too much and it's a distraction from the actual game. ZOS is on a limited staff now days and if they put time into housing it's time not being spent on the actual game.

Housing brings the biggest value for shareholders via predatory monetization -> housing is most important part of the game

And yet we still don't get enough options. Epitome of minimum viable product

we have dozens and dozens of options (houses) and thousands of furnishing but they are hidden beyond FOMO
as I said earlier eso has monetization on par with asian gacha and mobile games
you just can't buy what you want, you HAVE to buy lootboxes (crime against humanity) and wait for years to be able to buy house you want

peacenote · September 4

Glorious_Platypus wrote: »

Like the selection is isn't there, man. Each city needs MULTIPLE houses, 2 or 3 of small/apartment style, 2 or 3 of medium, and 1 or 2 of larger square footage type places. Not like as big as what you'd find out in the country of course because of the setting of it being a city but you get what I mean.

Lets review some examples.
- Alinor. The crowing capital gleaming jewel city of the High Elves. In the lore, literally 10's of thousands of people would live here. One house to choose from.
- Wayrest. Regional capital, one of the largest cities in the Daggerfall Covenant. One house.
- Daggerfall city. The actual capital. One house.

I could go and list every single city in the game like this, it would be worth it because you get my point.

If you want to live in any of these places, you only have 1 choice... And if you don't like that choice, the layout, the style, or whatever other factor - you're out of luck. Like there's just plain flat out not enough variety. More options are needed.

Reading this post, I had this weird moment where, even though I knew I was looking at the ESO forums, I thought maybe I was looking at my town's reddit, which has as a periodic topic housing availability. I think because you said "live in" since we don't really live in these houses.

We decorate them. Literally I was like... "wait... what website did I open??"

I get your actual point now, and don't have a strong opinion one way or another, because, due to fast travel, I kind of look at the housing selection as being across game, as opposed to per city. But you managed to confuse me for a second there!

Carlos93 · September 5

More houses could be added to the cities if they were true urban hubs, like the city of Novigrad in *The Witcher 3*.

The cities need to be larger.

One solution would be to have in-game cities exist outside the standard zone maps; each city (Narsis, Vulkhel Guard, Riften, Rawl'kha, etc.) could have its own urban zone map connected to the game's traditional zones (Deshaan, Auridon, The Rift, Reaper's March, etc.).

If cities had urban zone maps connected to the traditional game zones—rather than being contained within them—they could be made larger, allowing for more houses to be included.
These houses could be purchased with gold or with Crowns from the Crown Store.

If cities were larger, new types of buildings could be made available for purchase within them.

These buildings could include businesses (properties that generate gold for the player in exchange for being managed by them—such as jewelry shops, taverns, tailor shops, brothels, foundries, farms outside the city walls, smithies, etc.), guild halls (meeting places for guild members), and so on.

SilverBride · September 5

peacenote wrote: »

...we don't really live in these houses...

My characters do. They each have their own house that fits their personality and any time they aren't online they are logged off in their own house.

I have also set up the small town apartments as cozy rooms they can stay over in when they are in that town doing business. And I have a few getaway estates where they can invite others to join them out in the country or on the beach for a relaxing vacation.

SilverIce58 · 6:32AM

SilverBride wrote: »

peacenote wrote: »

...we don't really live in these houses...

My characters do. They each have their own house that fits their personality and any time they aren't online they are logged off in their own house.

I have also set up the small town apartments as cozy rooms they can stay over in when they are in that town doing business. And I have a few getaway estates where they can invite others to join them out in the country or on the beach for a relaxing vacation.

Same here. I create homes for each of my characters, and then meeting spots for my Argonians to feel more comfortable away from the swamps, or places for pets and mounts to live in (like my Creature Marsh in the Ample Domicile on PC/NA that's got a couple recommendations already ♥️).

NotaDaedraWorshipper · 2:04PM

Still waiting on some medium sized house in the middle of Orsinium and Abah's Landing. Like an apartment in one of the many taller buildings, preferably with an open balcony so you can have a view of some streets/city.