Zariah wrote: »

Do we know how much a house is going to cost yet ingame? I want to know if I need to super grind more cash or not ^^

And when will housing come to the PTS? I am super exhited about trying it out. ^^

It seems that the Zos team was working on a new Wayshine and it accidentally ported them to another realm where they are stuck in the floor and can't get out. Well, considering how quiet they have been, makes sense...Lol

I too wish to know How Much?
How will houses work as Guild Halls?
Are the rumors true of 5-6 Houses going to be in Crown Store?
Will Furniture Crafting be a new skill line in WoodWorking, or just take a new skill point?

My guess on price:~ 1 million/500k/250k
I have seen datamined pics of a Canopy Bed, Nightstand and a Chest.
The "Free" quest apartment is a room in one of the Inn's in the larger towns. (See Update 12 Natch Potes for exact locations).

Please Zos!!! Type in /stuck and return to us soon!!! We miss you @ZOS_GinaBruno , @ZOS_JessicaFolsom , @ZOS_RichLambert @ZOS_MattFiror

I'll pay a million gold just for a training dummy. The house itself could be worth 1g for all I care.

Just kidding, I want to buy one of those big castles and share it with my guild. My guess is as good as anyone else's but that castle seems like it could easily have a 5MM price tag.

Yes, the quest one is in a Inn. Here is the full interview with Matt and our only "set in stone" info on housing..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQdm0YTy0l0

Starts at TS 2:50

MakoFore wrote: »

it needs to be in the 5 million range id say to make it exclusive enough, then tiers at 3, 1 and half a million. seeing as housing can be shared- guilds and experienced players won't have trouble getting that money together. I'm still poor but once a player can craft their own things, has a few gold sets- and dosent need 100k to finish vMA which is where I'm at right now- iv found money comes alot easier..
i won't be needing any of that- i l be crashing on a mates couch.

Nothing needs to be "exclusive enough". Its instanced, not LTO.

Publius_Scipio wrote: »

My advice to you all is to make sure you hire a qualified inspector to inspect the house prior to purchase. Always good to know.

In particular, you should have your foundation inspected to save yourself a headache years down the line.

A few people have mentioned housing is going to be rented, I've read quite a lot on the subject and even written an article on the matter. I haven't seen any mention of renting houses. I don't think it likely as houses are fully customisable, if you use the new furniture making skill line then not keep up with rent, where are all your items and customisation going to go? I think that Zenimax wouldn't risk making properties rental as this would have quite a backlash and they will be using this as a way of drawing in the Christmas market and I don't think their shareholders would be too happy if they missed an opportunity like that.

Hellsbunnies wrote: »

Skayaq wrote: »

I'm hoping the pricing will be something like this:

Small house: Cheap enough that pretty much every one can buy it, say 10k
Medium house: Most players who play regularly should be able to afford one, say 100k
Large House: expensive gold sink, say 1mill

The small house will be free after following a quest.

Nah, the free-from-a-quest house is an apartment, or in other words, a room in an inn. The small houses are the next tier above that.

The housing update could be quite a major patch, as besides adding housing, hopefully they also update the crafting system, so that you can make your own furnishings. I remember with another game I played before, housing was done by having a number of instanced neighborhoods. You would go to one of the housing areas, and then select the neighborhood you wanted to go to. There were 3 tiers of houses, a small single room house, which also gave you 1 storage chest. There was a deluxe house which had 1 larger room and 2 smaller rooms, and gave you 2 storage chests. The top tier was guild halls which were like mansions. There was a very large room where your whole guild could get together for guild meetings and talk in private with other guild members. As well as smaller rooms. You could decorate the inside and outside of the different houses, using crafted items, as well as items that you could buy from an NPC, or earn from quests, raid bosses would also drop items that you could display on your wall. The houses would cost an initial amount of money, and then each month there was an upkeep cost. Each neighborhood had its own racial style. And I remember you could purchase a house outside of your race. You had many options as far as furnishings, carpet, banners, different wood or stone tiles, wall paneling, and outside there were a number of trees, shrubs, a pond, fountain, and unique items that you could earn from holiday event quests. You could explore other neighbor hoods and even enter other peoples houses if they allowed them to be open to other players, however other players could not edit or remove any of the furnishings, nor could they access your storage chest. If you did not want other random people snooping in your house, you could change the settings as to who could enter your house. There was a limit to one house per account. And as the population increased, they added additional instanced neighborhoods so everyone could have a house if they wanted to. Will be interesting to see how the housing system will work in ESO.

I want to live in Riften. And I just found the Riften house. But it is all locked up and there are no For Sale signs or Real Estate Agents to contact or anything. I've been running around trying to peer over the walls. I'd really like to take a look inside. Who can I make an appointment with?

Betheny wrote: »

forwardbias83 wrote: »

The housing update could be quite a major patch, as besides adding housing, hopefully they also update the crafting system, so that you can make your own furnishings. I remember with another game I played before, housing was done by having a number of instanced neighborhoods. You would go to one of the housing areas, and then select the neighborhood you wanted to go to. There were 3 tiers of houses, a small single room house, which also gave you 1 storage chest. There was a deluxe house which had 1 larger room and 2 smaller rooms, and gave you 2 storage chests. The top tier was guild halls which were like mansions. There was a very large room where your whole guild could get together for guild meetings and talk in private with other guild members. As well as smaller rooms. You could decorate the inside and outside of the different houses, using crafted items, as well as items that you could buy from an NPC, or earn from quests, raid bosses would also drop items that you could display on your wall. The houses would cost an initial amount of money, and then each month there was an upkeep cost. Each neighborhood had its own racial style. And I remember you could purchase a house outside of your race. You had many options as far as furnishings, carpet, banners, different wood or stone tiles, wall paneling, and outside there were a number of trees, shrubs, a pond, fountain, and unique items that you could earn from holiday event quests. You could explore other neighbor hoods and even enter other peoples houses if they allowed them to be open to other players, however other players could not edit or remove any of the furnishings, nor could they access your storage chest. If you did not want other random people snooping in your house, you could change the settings as to who could enter your house. There was a limit to one house per account. And as the population increased, they added additional instanced neighborhoods so everyone could have a house if they wanted to. Will be interesting to see how the housing system will work in ESO.

It is instanced, so basically none of that.

It's not "basically none of that" at all.

• Furniture crafting is confirmed
• 3 tiers of houses is confirmed
• Decoration is confirmed
• Racial styles confirmed
• Access permissions confirmed

What is not the case:

• There won't be instanced neighbourhoods
• There is no limit per account

What is unknown:

• Whether there will be an upkeep cost (although since he said "buy houses with in-game gold", I think that would be unlikely, as an upkeep cost would be "rent", not "buy")
• What the extent of crafting and decoration is (but he said "decorate any way you want", so it sounds quite extensive)

Enodoc wrote: »

hagermanj wrote: »

You do know that a starter home will be available by doing a quest. I have heard that you may own more than one house ( not confirmed though ).

SickDuck wrote: »

First house confirmed to be free and can be achieved by doing a quest.

kevlarto_ESO wrote: »

I believe I read first small house is given to you through a quest line after that no idea on what things will cost.

Didn't they say that the Starter Home you get from the quest isn't actually a 'house' though? It's a room in an inn. Or maybe that was just a theory and wasn't confirmed.

The "free with quest" is indeed a apartment. Here are the locations taken from the Update 12 Natch Potes....
Alik'r
The Sisters of the Sands Inn in Sentinel is renovating a room, and has temporarily blocked it off.
Auridon
Shara's Public House in Vulkhel Guard is renovating a room, and has temporarily blocked it off.
Deshaan
The Flaming Nix in Mournhold is renovating a room and has locked it.
Glenumbra
The Rosy Lion in Daggerfall is renovating a room and has locked it.
Stonefalls
The Ebony Flash in Ebonheart is renovating a room, and has blocked it off.

There may be more but these are confirmed locations to date...

Betheny wrote: »

Enodoc wrote: »

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You don't know what "basically" means. At its fundamental basics the housing is instanced so won't have any outdoors areas where people can meet each other and so on, like that guy was wanting.

"Basically" means you arbitrarily dismissed the entirety of that guy's post over the fact that the houses are instanced. You claimed that none of what he said could be true, despite the fact that over half of the post is completely unrelated to that factor; moreover, ZOS have already confirmed that most of what he said will in fact be happening.

The guy is basically spot on, as ESO's housing looks like it will be almost exactly like what he mentions from that other game, aside from the fact that there won't be separate housing neighbourhoods as all houses are present in the overworld, and there probably won't be upkeep costs. Since they are all present in the world, he can still meet up with other people outside the houses, and explore other people's houses depending on what permissions have been set.

cyberjanet wrote: »

I want to live in Riften. And I just found the Riften house. But it is all locked up and there are no For Sale signs or Real Estate Agents to contact or anything. I've been running around trying to peer over the walls. I'd really like to take a look inside. Who can I make an appointment with?

I was wondering the same myself, how will we be able to preview and buy the house? I'm not going to buy it sight unseen from the outside, I want to wander around the grounds, tour the interior, see what amenities it has to offer. Once I have previewed all the large houses, I'll make my decision.

I've seen the large house outside of Riften. Looks awesome from what I can tell so far, with the Smokefrost peaks in the background, and I've always loved The Rift in general.