@lardvader Thank you for the information. For me, that was one of the biggest perks in the previous games. I loved having the equipment hanging about with armor on the full figures. It kind of takes the air out of even buying a home for me I think. We'll have to see how it all works out after it's released next month.

@Mitoice I hear you there. It will be mainly for those with tons of time and gold and love to decorate. Oh well, it was a nice idea anyway, just doesn't seem all that practical.

Mitoice wrote: »

The lack of functional housing features its whats keeping me from buying a big house, for example storing loot items or building a functional.gwrden where i can get columbine... or motivation to spend tons of hours decorating one... ill probably buy a small house and put some random stuff,

Given there is no Alchemy Hireling and so Alchemy is already slight disadvantaged when compared to other gathering abilities it would make perfect sense to have a Garden in our Homestead that we can use to gather plants.

Wildstar does this brilliantly IMO, and it is something Zeni needs to look at, in Wildstar it is possible to add a different "plots" that allow you to gather all the different crafting mats, once unlocked they require a periodic subscription of gold - another useful way of adding a gold sink to the game.

All The Best

This is the problem I'm having with housing too. The basic idea is ok, the houses and locations are nice, I'm actually happy with the range of gold prices and the decorating tool is great. But the whole thing seems a bit pointless.

In other TES games my house was primarily a place to store stuff I didn't want to carry with me. Sometimes that was practical - like valuable items I lacked the speechcraft/mercantile skill to sell. Sometimes it was just things I wanted to hang onto like interesting books (or long series I wanted to read in order - in every game I collect A Dance in Fire and The Wolf Queen) or interesting items I'd picked up. On more than one occasion I left weapons and armour I could have sold in a dungeon in favour of bringing back some random object I wanted in my house.

But in ESO we can only place designated furniture items. Some of these you can only buy after completing specific quests or achievements and they're related to that achievement, so they're sort of similar. But it's still not the same to me. In another topic I described it as the difference between going to the beach and finding a cool shell to take home and going to the beach, finding a cool shell and being told you're not allowed to take it but you can buy a different shell from the gift shop.

It means housing is a lot less appealing to me. I can't see myself spending a lot of time in my house, I'll probably only go back when I have new decorations to add.

I'm expecting all the useful options like storage and display to be added later, available through the crown store and maybe a time intensive RNG in-game method.

Yeah, not much point to housing except attuned crafting stations and training dummies. But some people like to show off their decorating skills and maybe invite their friends to RP, I guess. More power to them.

For me personally though, I'm certainly not going to be spending any Crowns on any of those bigger houses unless they serve some actual purpose. ZOS should, at the very least, make the banker and merchant fully-functional when they're in a house.

Danikat wrote: »

This is the problem I'm having with housing too. The basic idea is ok, the houses and locations are nice, I'm actually happy with the range of gold prices and the decorating tool is great. But the whole thing seems a bit pointless.

In other TES games my house was primarily a place to store stuff I didn't want to carry with me. Sometimes that was practical - like valuable items I lacked the speechcraft/mercantile skill to sell. Sometimes it was just things I wanted to hang onto like interesting books (or long series I wanted to read in order - in every game I collect A Dance in Fire and The Wolf Queen) or interesting items I'd picked up. On more than one occasion I left weapons and armour I could have sold in a dungeon in favour of bringing back some random object I wanted in my house.

But in ESO we can only place designated furniture items. Some of these you can only buy after completing specific quests or achievements and they're related to that achievement, so they're sort of similar. But it's still not the same to me. In another topic I described it as the difference between going to the beach and finding a cool shell to take home and going to the beach, finding a cool shell and being told you're not allowed to take it but you can buy a different shell from the gift shop.

It means housing is a lot less appealing to me. I can't see myself spending a lot of time in my house, I'll probably only go back when I have new decorations to add.

Pointless indeed...

I think you mean other Elder Scrolls games. There is only one ESO. I'm guessing storage comes to the Crown store...

rotaugen454 wrote: »

I think you mean other Elder Scrolls games. There is only one ESO. I'm guessing storage comes to the Crown store...

If you have the banker assistant, you can park him in your home and get access to storage that way.

Robbmrp wrote: »

From the comments here and around the forums, ZOS is leaving the best things out of the home update. No armor mannequins, or weapon display cases, no farmable land for alchemy supplies. You can decorate the {snip} out of your home but can interact with very little from the sounds of it. Those are the main reasons I owned property in the other ES games I played. I can't really see much point in spending any gold or crowns on homes in ESO....at least at this point.

And no, I haven't tested this on the PTS. Between work, the new house we got less than a month ago, I barely have time to log on to keep my trade guilds updated.

Yeah, the lack of armor and weapon displays is kinda disappointing.

In a way, I hate to even entertain the thought, but do you think it'd ever be a possibility that they'd give storage/mannequin type stuff to subs or put it in the crown store? As it is now, you can pay crowns for additional storage or a banker. However, bank space and the banker have a gold and time alternative, respectively.

Just food for thought I guess.

I'm sure they are saving a lot of what we want for future updates.

Housing=pvp=pointless

imo they don't want to lose the $$ they get for crafting bags (subs) and bank space.
Those bottomless chests from the ESO games would be an issue in that regard.

A good solution would be to sell (or give) a single fashion dummy that allows you to save 1 complete set of gear, or those Weapon Display things that they had to save two swords or whatever.

That would be cool & keep folks coming back for more.

Nope. They are launching something I've waited almost three years for with none of the things I've waited three years for. Weeee!