I am a little under whelmed with the housing, about the only useful item is the skeleton. The other items such as the crafting stations and decorations are just not worth home ownership.

I use the crafting stations primarily for writs and if I have to go and get them, then I might as well go to Shornhelm or similar where the writ boards, banker and crafting stations are close together. I also have access to the blacksmiths for repair and sales.

AlMcFly wrote: »

Not everything turns out the way you hope. You better get used to it. That's life. Complain all you want. Even if they make improvements to the system, the way eveyone on the forums is moaning, you all sound like something new disappoints you every week. Like dysfunctional children.

I bought a house. I decorated it a bit. Getting lots of furniture will be a grind and expensive. I don't care. I'll be playing for at least a year. I don't need a fully furnished house within 24 hours of feature launch. Everyone needs to put on their big boy underwear and stop complaining so much. The system isn't what you hoped. Adapt to it, constructively help improve it, or walk away.

Your comment adds nothing to the conversation. We're all trying to have a constructive conversation about the ways in which Housing can be improved and you call us "dysfunctional children?" What really strikes me as dysfunctional and childish is that you feel the need to inhibit others trying to found a constructive dialogue and provide feedback to ZoS on how they can improve their product.

I previewed all of the housing on the PTS and was left feeling underwhelmed.

They left me unenthusiastic for a homestead.

I have plenty of gold to buy any of the large mansions but have yet to and probably will not as the grind to get items is as bad as the houses look.

I *will* say this, the houses were underwhelming to me because I felt like they got a bit lazy in the world editor.. You can see the edges of the square brush they used to paint on the cobblestone walkway over the grass.

I've seen more creative landscape blending in the Sims by "amateurs" so I wasn't really impressed...

That said, it's their first iteration. Look how much prettier Wrothgar is compared to Auridon. When they come back to it, it'll be improved.

Also the shapes of these first houses, as were discussed, are just cut and paste of the most common houses. There are much more "unique" looking structures in the game (towers, multilevel Bosmer trees, cottages with docks) and I wouldn't be surprised if those come in the next batch.

Just use your inn room for furniture storage and rack up those recipes and mats in the mean time. Good things are on the way, I gotta believe it.

Wauw are you really that ignorance!

Just read my *** post again, i said WHY housing is a disappointment. I give enough reasons why i don't like it, AREN'T those things or arguments what they need to improve?

And yes, i started this thread and i don't want your "insulting" posts in here. I wasn't looking for this, someting you don't clearly understand. And now you are talking about raising my kids?

What is wrong with you?

And YET AGAIN, i DON'T disrespect ZOS?.... Where in the hell did you read that......

Stay on-topic without attacking someone or just leave please!

True! True!
what is offered so far is by far way to expensive to buy and looks and feels cheap as...

however!
only time will tell what ZOS make out of it.

My guess?
if players do not spend enough real credits to buy these (xxxx) dwellings offered now, then someone will get off their rear end and design something decent.

From experience: It was the same in many other games I played.

So please be patient and let us see what the year reveals.

Until then: the rest of the Game is still there to play.

Have fun

The one thing that disappoints me the most is the lack of storage. I don't know about the rest of you but I need some warehouses gosh darn it! When I played Oblivion, I had every house in every town and the Wizard's Tower and filled every container with items. I had stuff stashed all over. Now, maybe they will add this in the future with the ability to purchase some crates or chests or something like that. That would be awesome if they did. I was pleased to read that you will be able to place crafting stations in your houses. That is going to be the first thing I put there. No more running to town just to craft and then having to run to different buildings for different disciplines. They will all be as centrally located in my house as they can be. It will be one stop shop.

I did feel a little disappointed that the architecture of the houses wasn't all that different from other houses in the game but it isn't all that surprising. Just look at all the similarity you see among the "NPC" houses in each town/area. They all share the same architecture and I am sure ZOS was thinking about this when they created many of the houses. I will agree that the Daggerfall Manor is really just a copy and paste of the castle but they did add a full basement and a back door to the sea which I like (I have to have a basement in my houses for some reason). Despite the copy and paste nature of that house, it is the only one I really like but I am not spending 13,800 crs for it at normal crown store prices. I am either going to grind for the gold or wait for a 50% crown sale.

The housing editor could be a bit better but I did find that using a gamepad (XboxOne Elite on PC) with it seems to be pretty easy. I haven't done the keyboard and mouse version yet. I did end up getting a candle stuck in a window/wall (Surface Drag was off) such that it is now half in the wall and half out and I cannot select it anymore in the editor. I am guessing it is stuck behind a boundary that keeps you from going through the wall and the editor can't "see" it. The one suggestion I could make for the editor is a list of placed items so we could select an item, see where it is in the room and put it away. This would let me fix the candle quite easily. To avoid this in the future, I think the key is to have Surface Drag turned on. That seemed to keep items from going through walls and floors.

In general, I like the addition of the housing. I wasn't expecting much for this initial release so maybe I wasn't as disappointed as some. I figured this wasn't going to be fully baked coming out, I mean they decided to drop 39 houses into the game (here is where some of the cookie cutter approach came from). If I would have been ZOS I would have chosen a few less, maybe a third the number, make them a bit more unique and more useful. Honestly, now that Morrowind has been announced, I'd prefer to wait for a house in Morrowind. I always did like that little island. Bring back the Mudcrab Merchant!

I got the free room, put my monkey in the center and that was my house woo.

prettynink wrote: »

SaRuZ wrote: »

All the insides are copy and paste from their zones. Daggerfall Overlook is a copy/paste of the castle in Daggerfall. Serenity Estate interior is a copy/paste of Skywatch Castle. Same for Serenity Falls, copy/paste of EP.

It's actually very, very, very lazy on ZoS end. The fact that the most pricey buildings in the game(gold wise & crown store wise) are literally the same exact layout as another building in the game is extremely lazy.

That they have the audacity to put a real life price tag on a building that they simply right clicked on in another city, selected 'copy' went over to an area, right clicked and selected paste. Yes, this is what they did.

Ok so you mean to tell me that Zos is making people pay upwards 100's of dollars for a home/s that has already been in the game? That is insane!

Actually, the bigger costs involved in the first release to zos are not from the house layouts. Its from all the new systems taken from the developers side, repurposed or rebuillt from scratch to allow players to alter "terrain" on their own.

As they have ssid the primary focus of the release was to get the foundation systems in place that they csn now use as they add more and more.

The Housing Update is a disappointment. I got the free room just to do the quest. I furnished it with a small table, stool and candle to get access to the room and see what it looked like. To me without storage Housing is a waste of my time.

Some players are never gonna happy ever!

They expect everything to get via cheat codes like single player game allows and if anything wrong happens then simply reload game!

I want a lighthouse, preferable at Northpoint! Someplace where i can hear the sea and the seagulls.

Something like Hundings Palatial but without the house...

Toonen1988 wrote: »

I haven't played TESO for a while but this new housing update was very promosing and was waiting for months for this update. I have 12.000 crowns and was really looking into buying a notable house.

So, first i planned to buy Daggerfall Overlook but it was a huge disappointment. No yard, ugly looking, boring and inside is just sooo small with a akward house design. Ebonheart chateau has a better yard but the house design is still akward. The best notable house is Serenity Falls Estate because of the nice looking yard with some water and a little bridge but yet again, strange house design, inside feels boring.

This is a huge disappointment, i expected more landscape, bigger yards, more room inside houses etc. It was so dissappointment for me that i have stop looking for a player house, i even stopped looking at other "smaller" houses. I just wanted a bigger yard, more rooms, small lake with beautiful flowers and trees, bigger houses etc.

This isn't worth my crowns like almost everyting els.

Who is feeling the same way?

And no, i'm not here to hate the game. This is still one of the best MMORPG game that i ever played but this housing update is just a huge disappointment for me.

As i can member, there was a quest line on a small Island with a party going on. I was expecting more like that.. I can't member which quest it was.

I hear there are some exclusive ones coming into the crownstore soon.

I wait untill the new store exclusive houses will be for sale to get a descent outside place and getting a house worth for the money.
I will use it for craftingstations I allready bought and hope storage will come along the way.
More moving animals would make the place more alive in stead of the static silence of how the animals are now when you place them.
And than I will be pleased with my home......