I want player housing to be accompanied by class balance changes and some long-desired features to existing systems (being able to preview styles before crafting, being able to sort through filters better on traders on console, etc).

Player housing could be great, but I see it as a big shiny thing to get people excited about so they ignore the real problems and the things they really need in the game.

It will either be in the form of DLC or straight Crown store. It is not part of the base game, I can't see this just being added as a base game quest reward or just for gold.

If I don't have something--preferably lots of somethings that I actually want--to spend my in-game gold on for housing I will be very sad.

That said, I expect I will be very sad.

I'm almost certain there'll be a Crown store element to it, but it'd be nice if you could get some things for in-game gold. I also like the idea of certain quests unlocking certain houses, e.g. an NPC dies unavoidably during the quest so their house now becomes available for purchase post-quest, or finishing a guild quest line gets you access to a house (like one on Eyevea for the Mages Guild, there are some vendors working out of house-like buildings there which could do their job just as well in a street stall just saying ). I think it'd be neat to be able to use things you got from questing as decorations too.

Guild housing/hall only. The other stuff is redundant.

I'm afraid that how do we want it and how will it be implemented in practice are two different things which means that our wishes in this regard don't matter at all.

Gargath wrote: »

My vote.
- Subscribers/dlc players get the house for crowns (they have crowns, they don't need to do anything in game for the house)
- Non-subscriber gets small hutt for gold (100k for example) once they completed all cadwell silver and gold quests on all maps on one character. Once they complete it again on another character - which means they are ESO Addicted - they get a mansion, for 1 milion gold .
That way more people will spend more time in game, first on completing more pve content, second on earning money .

In your scenario, I would rather be a non-subscriber or would prefer not to have DLCs just to be able to get a house for ingame gold and not for real money (crowns) ;-)

I feel that buying the 'base' house should be a crown store purchase. Then any expansion of the house should be by crafting walls, furniture, etc.
Edit: Have some furniture available in the crown store for those that do not want to craft anything.

Paying a weekly 'rental fee' would be fine, if you could pay ahead of time ( multiple weeks ). If you fall behind in your rent, you would have, lets say 30 days to catch up ( you would be locked out of your house ). If they foreclose, then your stuff would be put in storage for 6 months. There would be no storage fee to get your stuff out. After 6 months your stuff would be deleted ( this is for people that leave the game and don't return.

Anyone who thinks for even a second that housing will be anything other than 100% Crown store purchases is completely delusional.

Cazzy wrote: »

What I don't want is to pay monthly crowns, like rent, to keep the house.

Not sure if that idea had crossed the devs minds yet, but if they see this, you can bet that's exactly how they'll do it.

Having us work for it makes it feel like we really own it. Irregardless of it being a crown or gold purchase I want a quest to go with it. Of course that's what I wanted with the Crown Store werewolf bite and look how that went. Not having things like mounts, pets and maybe costumes come with their own side quests feels kinda cheap to me. I hope they do better for the future of the game and it's players.

I'd like it to be included with ESO+ subscription! Maybe there could be super fancy mansions that can only be purchased with Crowns/Gold/AP/whatever. But a quality, middle class house and furnishings included with ESO+ would be great.