For the initial release these are just cosmetic things which offer you something to spend gold, resources and time working on.

They did mention on ESO Live that they will continue to build on the feature and add more to it over time, with that might come mechanical benefits to owning a house.

*Edit.

I believe I did hear about crafting stations being installed, so if true it might be somewhere to have all your crafting (banking and merchant via crown NPCs) in one place.

I want housing for my test dummy. I also wouldn't mind having a tavas or other crafting station available at ease to help guildies. It might also be nice to duel with friends without someone saying "xposed" or trying to interrupt a fun time with mud balls or glitched healing.

I'm an end game pver but I definitely spend forever dyeing my costumes. I imagine housing will be a nice cosmetic time kill while waiting for trial groupings.
I hope for storage cases or armor stands in the future. This is just the foundation- who knows what they might add. I'm going to remain hopeful about it all.

What houses offer:
- dps test dummy (needs to be acquired first from Master crafting writs)
- set crafting stations (acquired also from Master writs if I'm not mistaken; need to be attuned at a specific crafting station before placing it)
- Access to assistants if the owner has placed them (each one takes up 1 collectible slot [in a manor you can place up to 10 collectibles]; nobody can summon any assistant while in a player house so if a guest has an assistant but the house owner does not or did not place it that guest will actually have lost access to their assistant and have less functionality while inside that player's house):

• Banker assistant: personal bank access (but no access to guild bank or guild store)
• Merchant assistant: buys items and sells a small selection of very basic consumables (but no repair function!)
• Smuggler assistant: buys stolen items (but cannot launder or clear your bounty)

What houses don't offer (but are some of the most important functions you can find in any major town):
- Guild bank access
- Guild store access
- Repair function
- Stablemaster NPC
- Wayshrine or free ports (porting to any wayshrine from a player house costs gold)
- Fence that can launder and remove your bounty
- Shadowy Supplier

Edit: Don't underestimate how much fun decorating a house and garden can be though (and how much time it consumes before you notice it And having a private instance you personally decorated where you can meet with friends and guild mates is really nice even if you don't use it that often).

Free inn room for skeleton.

The basic thing you can do with it use your imagination in decorating them also target dummy and crafting stations for now.
They maybe add more funcionality in future.

I play casualy/simply playing the game and can afford the large house.

Couple things:

• Gold sink
• Creative way to spend some time(dueling arenas, rp, just making something cool)
• Instance based area to reduce lag for hangouts/writs, ect)
• Personal crafting station that can attune to different set stations you have the ability to craft (TBS, Julianos, Hundings, Morkuldin, ect)
• Testing builds with TARGET DUMMIES!!!!
• Storage and other feature may come in the future, but improvements will be for sure made in the future.

They're just playing catch up. Housing has been planned since launch. If housing were a part of this game from day one as is would people be this adamant about it?

I still think it's a cash grab. I am grinding hard farming mats to sell. I made 600k in four days. I will not spend a cent in that crown store unless it's DLC. Also, it's convenient housing is being released around tax time huh

I'll use housing for my DPS test dummies ^^
Other than that...? maybe decorating or something like that ^^

1- The RP value of it. No more trolls, and so much more possible depth into each of my characters.

2- Attunable crafting stations. No more annoying voyages in wrothgar for Julianos, Bangkorai for NMG, or passing fields of daedra north of the old tower wayshrine for Hunding's. Also, if I wanted to, I could get the imperial city ones and never fuss about that again.

3- Duels. Ever dueled on top of a massive, questionably sound of structure stone pillar with flames surrounding you? At the very least, it's easier and less laggy to fight.

4- Right now, storage is not a feature. I have every expectation that it will be, eventually.

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Not sure if zenimax thought this through at all, or having a massive plan with this game.

I am 100% sure that they are looking at statistic data, and not from players experience.
Most accounts are players who have not reach end game and trials, and therefore they make their patch towards that. Also, it is very easy to combine housing with crown store, then is it to combine an end game trial, dungeon or pvp with crown store.

The thing they are clearly doing wrong tho, are the fact they think majority of players count more then the loyal once. I think they should start looking at playtime instead of each account compared to eachother. For example, I have 190 days played on only one character, which is far more then many accounts added together out there. And they still look at every account and take those into consideration when they make a major update decision. This is why we don't get more bank space btw

But statistical data doesn't lie. Numbers don't. However, many players just go with the 'main thought' of the week without even bothering to check if it's true or not.

Houses may not be an update some players want but it doesn't mean others don't. And it's funny because it's the same with the changes for radiant. So many players clamour for the change in the ability and when it did come, there was an uproar as well.

One tamriel was an update that so many wanted prior to launch of the game. It was suppose to be like this at the start but the development decided that it wasn't to be that way and stuck with veteran zones. Then when it came, people complain about one t being wrong for the game and how it casualize the game.

You know what happened with garrisons in wow? People stopped playing the game and played house, without even stepping foot out to quest. Some zones went dead, even with all the population wow had. People then complained wow became this click game within a game with npcs even doing the farming for you.

It's one thing to have functionality in houses, it's another when housing takes over the game. Housing might need a few more tweaks but that's why you need statistics to decide which is better for housing. In time, we might even have dungeon or trial portals in housing itself.

Be positive. Think about this patch as a base, or a platform for ZoS to further improve housing functionality. Instead of just complaining about stuff.

I will do the quests for the three free apartments and use them for free travel---Otherwise, no house (Crowns or Gold) until they add storage. I just see no real benefit to having one right now--other than having a free travel point from anywhere.