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Have You Purchased A House Yet?
Ashtaris
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I'm trying to get a feel on how well the ESO community has embraced the Homestead update. I will keep my opinions to myself, but I will say that I have only purchased one of the Medium sized homes with gold, but did buy the Target Skeleton using crowns.
On the poll below, the option for the crown purchase is for either decorated or undecorated.
Edited by Ashtaris on February 9, 2017 12:08AM On the poll below, the option for the crown purchase is for either decorated or undecorated.
Have You Purchased A House Yet? 373 votes
Only received the free room by completeting the quest.
27%
104 votes
Purchased a Inn Room or apartment with gold
2%
8 votes
Purchased an small to medium sized home with gold
15%
57 votes
Purchased a large to manor sized home with gold
13%
50 votes
Purchased a Inn Room or apartment with crowns
0%
1 vote
Purchased a small to medium sized home with crowns
2%
11 votes
Purchased a large to manor sized home with crowns
9%
36 votes
Have not purchased or received any house so far
20%
78 votes
Other (explain)
7%
28 votes
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lihentian✭✭✭✭✭Only received the free room by completeting the quest.i kinda want a house, but i can't find any reason to ever visit... it is way too expensive and way too useless.11 -
EisenroseSoul ShrivenI wanted to hold off for a bit on purchasing a home, outside of the freebie to test the furnishing controls, until I could build/farm the majority of the furniture for it. I figure recipe hunting will go hand in hand with making the gold to buy said home.4
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Wing✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Purchased a large to manor sized home with crownsdaggerfall overlook, worth it.
and about 1.5 mill in stuff to furnish it.ESO player since beta.
game got too disappointing.1 -
Tannus15✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Purchased a large to manor sized home with goldMathiisen Manor. Also worth it.
Started collection furnishing.2 -
Enemy-of-Coldharbour✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Only received the free room by completeting the quest.I have no intention of ever buying one. I don't RP, and there is no storage so I don't see the need for it.
Silivren (Silly) Thalionwen | Altmer Templar | Magicka | 9-Trait Master Crafter/Jeweler | Master Angler | PVE Main - Killed by U35
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Derrok Gunnolf | Redguard Dragonknight | Stamina | Werewolf - Free Bites
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Amber Emberheart | Breton Dragonknight | Stamina | Master Angler
Vlos Anon | Dunmer Nightblade | Magicka | Vampire - Free Bites
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Concenaros✭✭✭Other (explain)Currently waiting for the Homestead patch to hit Xbox, so nope. I've been chewing at the bit and farming gold so that I can purchase a home once it launches."What is your purpose here, Arisen? If you sought to live you had naught but run and hide yourself away. But then, tell me, child of man... what does it mean to live in truth? To wage war against the passing days? To pray to the unseen for a few breaths more? To raise grand cities from stone, and spawn new life in turn? Mankind has done this, yes, and more. But is the tapestry you weave truly of your own design?"Rhylarr - Lvl 30 - XBOX ONE - Aldmeri DominionFlowki Engarson - Lvl 22 - XBOX ONE - Daggerfall ConvenantConcenaros - Lvl 24 - XBOX ONE - Ebonheart PactTargoth Gro'Urgash - Lvl 8 - XBOX ONE - Dagerfall Covenant0
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Yolokin_Swagonborn✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Have not purchased or received any house so farI was initially excited about hosing but currently I am holding off buying a house until ZOS starts listening to the PTS testers and all the issues we identified with housing nearly a month ago.
There are already people disappointed with housing due to issues that were easily correctable and communicated to ZOS via PTS with ample time to correct.
It's just not worth the headache at this point.5 -
Wing✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Purchased a large to manor sized home with crownsnot only am I happy with it and having fun, I come from playing a lot of fallout 4 so a lot of tips and tricks carry over, its very close.
I have actually started paying more attention to various stalls and building layouts and designs within the world and making a conscious effort to understand how things are set up so it looks natural. I hate houses that look pre fab.
having a lot of fun, really enjoying it, nice to have a really cool place for my friends and I to hang out. we sat around the fire in game last night because we didn't feel like doing anything and just talked.ESO player since beta.
game got too disappointing.6 -
Tryxus✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Purchased an small to medium sized home with goldMournoth Keep
An isolated and fortified keep in High Rock, with a beautiful view over Lake Halcyon. Perfect for a reclusive Illusionist like me 
Still need to furnish it tho...Edited by Tryxus on February 9, 2017 1:06AM"Stand strong, stay true and shelter all."
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raidentenshu_ESO✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭Only received the free room by completeting the quest.I'm not impressed with the current houses thats available right now. With each house that I've went to preview I feel as if I'm in the state penitentiary. There's depressing walls all over the premises.
The housing is also very expensive as it deals with real life money. For the price of a house I can go out and buy a whole new video game. For the big boy houses like the manors I could actually buy a whole new graphics card with the price that ZOS is asking for.
It is also a very hard to get gold as questing doesn't give you nearly as much as it should. You can also wand up losing gold as theirs some that requires you to pay over 600 gold to further advance a quest by giving that gold to an NPC.Edited by raidentenshu_ESO on February 9, 2017 1:19AM0 -
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✭✭Only received the free room by completeting the quest.I am still torn between Strident Springs, Hundings and Mistveil, and so have decided it best to hold off on purchasing a house for the time being, and concentrate on collecting everything I need to decorate it and make it beautiful when I do eventually purchase it
Edited by Elara_Northwind on February 9, 2017 12:45AMSorcerer, Templar, Wolf Collector, Housing Addict!
GM of Salted Wings Tavern and Salted Wings Housing 🏠🌻
'A House is Built with Boards and Beams, a Home is Built with Love and Dreams'
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Cronopoly✭✭✭✭✭Only received the free room by completeting the quest.If only I could sell "some" of my Dungeon drop gear I might be able to afford a better house. Instead I break it down for the paltry 1 single piece of CP160 craft resource.
Also where is the carrot that was the Island Paradise. That's the ONLY one I'd want.
I lol'd when I entered the broom closet that is the free apt ROFL. Seriously
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Kneighbors✭✭✭✭✭Only received the free room by completeting the quest.Think community must gather some balls and boycott the homestead. The way I see this update:
Negatives:
- Nerfed my stamina NB.
- Nerfed my templar healer.
- Broke group searching tool. From a player who were making 20 runs a day I'm down to 1-3 runs.
- New dungeons bugs, Spindleclutch II sudden death and several more
- HUGE amount of new items with exactly same storage space.
- Housing is totally useless especially if you don't even have merchant and banker.
- Housing crafting is too complicated\time consuming.
Positives:- Ice Staff tanking. Still can't comment on implementation though.
- Some positive improvements to several skills of templar.
As you see if you summurise my opinion it will be between "Disaster update" to "total garbage".
I think community has to restrain from buying houses so the same developer who was commenting that there's no reason to increase storage space according to statistics, will look into statistic and see that housing is useless without storage.
Now I'm asking myself, will I preorder Morrowind? LOL no find some other beta testers. Not ready to pay 40$ for the privelege of becoming one.2 -
IrishGirlGamer✭✭✭✭✭
✭Purchased a large to manor sized home with goldI own five houses (if you count the three "cozy" inn rooms).
1. Completed the quests to get the three rooms for free.
2. Started saving gold when I first heard about housing. When it went live, I went shopping (refusing to spend crowns) and found I still couldn't afford a manor or even a large house. So I settled on Ravenhurst, in Rivenspire, for around 200k. I could afford it and it was in a cool zone. Also, it came with a small yard. Nice.
But when I was done, I couldn't even afford furniture. So I went to a guild trader and about fell over. Furniture was selling for obscene prices. Like 25k, for a bed or a desk.
So I did the furniture grind, first grinding for plans and blueprints, then grinding for materials. After a couple of hours of that, I made two beds and put them in my guild trader for 25k each. I wasn't even sure they would sell.
Went back to grinding. Both sold within the hour, netting me around 40k. Made another one and two chairs and listed them. By the time I was finished for the night, they had sold for around 30k total.
3. Went to Malab Tor and bought the Cyrodiic house (it small but I really like it).
Five houses. When I get home, I'll check and see what I've sold while I was at work. If I'm in luck, I might buy one or two of the smaller apartments (like the Sisters of Sands Apartment). I buy what I want now and furnish them the prices drop.
Edit: Actually, I realized I picked the wrong choice. Ravenhurst is not a large home; I thought it was.
Edited by IrishGirlGamer on February 9, 2017 12:50AMValar Morghulis.
Someday I'm going to put a sword through your eye and out the back of your skull. Arya Stark
You're going to die tomorrow, Lord Bolton. Sleep well. Sansa Stark
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✭✭✭✭Only received the free room by completeting the quest.I kinda wanted a home, but I definitely wanted a new set of armor. So golding it out and leaving some funds in the bank won out over Home & Garden: Tamriel Edition.0 -
itehache✭✭✭✭Purchased an small to medium sized home with goldSleek Creek House, I love it!! Close to Rawlkha, the city I always hang out.
True, there is not much to do and it is empty atm, but I love having a piece of Tamriel that I can call home. The garden is gorgeous too!! Damn, I am looking for a house in real life and I wish I could just live there 0 -
EldritchPenguin✭✭✭✭✭Have not purchased or received any house so farIt's just not anywhere near being on my radar at the place I am in the game right now. My resources are currently devoted to leveling alts and getting gear.Edited by EldritchPenguin on February 9, 2017 1:09AMLilelle Adlis - Dark Elf Dragonknight
Vaynothah Sailenar - Dark Elf Templar
Sherivah Telvanni - Dark Elf Sorcerer
Nephiah Telvanni - Dark Elf Nightblade2 -
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✭✭✭✭✭Other (explain)I will probably buy one sooner or later. But I worry it is something I will enjoy for a week and then stop visiting. So I am hesitant to jump right in while it is new and exciting for fear of it having no staying power. I would have preferred guild housing. The current housing design is very introverted. Unless you are a hardcore RPer, there is little reason for other players to hang around in same house and lots of limitations on "sharing" housing that could have allowed for quasi-guild housing.0 -
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✭Purchased a large to manor sized home with crownsDagoth_Rac wrote: »I will probably buy one sooner or later. But I worry it is something I will enjoy for a week and then stop visiting. So I am hesitant to jump right in while it is new and exciting for fear of it having no staying power. I would have preferred guild housing. The current housing design is very introverted. Unless you are a hardcore RPer, there is little reason for other players to hang around in same house and lots of limitations on "sharing" housing that could have allowed for quasi-guild housing.
I don't RP. But with my house I have a private place no one but select friends can access. I have a place to deconstruct gear, my banker, and dps testing. It's cool to find new blue prints or a nice painting and be able to toss it on the wall when you get home and housing has made me run vet dungeons again to get the busts. You'd be surprised how much fun you can have messing around with a few friends. When new people come visit I generally pull out the large cage and place it over them while they are typing lol. Housing has been much more fun than I initially expected and this is just a base foundation they can expand upon in future updates.1 -
Annalyse✭✭✭✭✭Purchased a large to manor sized home with goldI bought Daggerfall Manor right away. Even unfurnished I love it - the outdoor space is beautiful. I tossed a couple of rough stone slabs out to make steps to the overlook wall for a fine view, but aside from that nothing is really available for gold so it is empty. But it's peaceful and a nice place to log in.
I also bought Captain Margaux's place in Daggerfall because of its proximity to writ boards, crafting stations, bank and merchants. Free teleport to things I often need in a fairly quiet city, for a reasonable price.
And of course I got the three apartments because I have characters in each alliance so they were free.0 -
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✭✭Other (explain)Console Peasant as my Mag DK is retired lol不動の Steadfast - Unwavering
XBL Gamer Tag - Maxwell
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PC Maxwell-Crystal - NA DC - CP 200+ Brenton Magicka DK 「Retired」Band Camp statements: To state "But this one time I saw X doing X... so that justifies X" Refers to the Band camp statement.
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Vanthras79✭✭✭✭✭Purchased an small to medium sized home with goldKragenhome is nice and snug.Norion Germain - Telvanni Wizard, Covenant Battle Mage, Mage's Guild Magister, Resident of Daggerfall Overlook, Lord of Tel Galen, Psijic Monk, Antiquarian, Breton Scholar, and Traveler.0 -
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✭Purchased an small to medium sized home with goldI have not purchased a house. I have purchased five.
Ah, the cost of being a roleplayer with altitis.Living vicariously through my characters.
My Girls:"If you were trapped in your house for, say, a year, how would you pass the time?"
Nephikah the Houseless, dunmer assassin: "I suppose I could use the break. I have a lot of business holdings now that need management."
Swum-Many-Waters, elderly argonian healer: "I think that I would enjoy writing a memoir."
Silh'ki, khajiit warrior-chef: "Would this one be able to go outside, to the nearby river? It's hard to fish without water!"
Peregrine Huntress, bosmer hunter: "Who is forcing me to stay inside, and where can I find them?"
Lorenyawe, altmer mechanist: "And why would I want to go outside in the first place? Too much to be done in the workshop."
Lorelai Magpie, breton master thief: "I'd go nuts. Lucky for me, I have a little experience sneaking out!"
Rasheda the Burning Heart, redguard knight: "I would continue my training to keep my skills sharp."
Hex-Eye Azabi, khajiit daedric priestess: "I suppose it would be lucky, then, that I built a shrine to Mephala in my backyard."
Yngva Stormhammer, nord bandit (reformed...ish): "I hate being inside even when I'm not forced to be. GET. ME. OUT."
Madam Argentia, vampire dunmer aristocrat: "I suppose it would be more of the same. I have a rather... contentious relationship with the sun."
Mazie gra-Bolga, orc scout: "Uh... I'd have to house train my bear..."
Felicia the Wanderer, imperial witch-for-hire: "What Lorelai said."
Calico Jaka-dra, retired khajiit pirate: "This one would like a rest from her grand adventures. Her jewel shop runs out of stock!"
Shimmerbeam, blind altmer psijic: "Provided that I am confined to Artaeum, I do not think I will want for things to occupy my time."
Shauna Blackfire, redguard necromancer: "Sounds like paradise. I hate people."
Kirniel the Undying, cursed bosmer warrior: "I would feel useless, not being able to fight."
Echoes-from-Dragons, argonian who thinks she's a dragon: "All the better to count my hoard!"
(Signature idea shamelessly stolen from Abeille.)1 -
greylox✭✭✭✭✭Purchased a large to manor sized home with crownsStay Moist mansion, fully furnished with extra garden and furnishing packs and bits and bobs. Been using gold to fill it with books.
Edited by greylox on February 9, 2017 1:53AMPC EU
House of the Black Lotus
*{Smokes-in-the-Shade }* (Mag pet Sorc Argonian, prolific thief, willing participant of the dark arts, gardener of exotic...herbs)
{Lugdum The Mechanist} (Hybrid Orc Templar, collector of ancient Ayleid smoking pipes)
{Rantoul} (Dark Elf Magknight, likes an ale between boss fights, has been known to offer daedric princes out in a fist fight)
{Red, The Wanderer} (Bosmer stam sorc and hunter extraordinaire)
{Shoots-For-Stars} (Argonian Mag pet Sorc Ice mage Healer)
*{Jinny the spark }* (Sassy Imperial Stamplar)
{Crezzi the Drifter} (Magblade khajiit burglar, available for questionable operations)
{Grif the Despised} (StamKnight Tank Nord, Eastmarch Master Drinker and spinner of tall yarns)
{Geraldine Stone-Heart} (High Elf MagSorc Ice Tank, Mystic, practitioner of the ancient arts)
*{Anawinn}* (Stam pet Ward Redguard, Mother to a bear and an unruly Hunger,Librarian, field medic and natures fist)
{*}Mains
{ CP 900+ }
Caretaker of Battle Island (Grand Topal), the holiday destination for the discerning warrior
Residing in Stay-Moist Mansion-Shadowfen - The Smoking Den (as of 6th feb 2017)6 -
Bislobo✭✭✭Have not purchased or received any house so farBeen playing more IC lately, thought the increased AP gained from capturing flags will bring more people there and i was right. You can enjoy a couple of fights there so i have been distracted from most of the housing information. I am thinking about buying the Forsaken Stronghold, from all the houses i have seen, that is the most appealing to me. Still i want to wait for a while, since i think we deserve more utility from the houses, such as being able to store our Legendary Equipment in there. For 1,285,000 gold it better have some utility attached to it.Redguard Dragonknight - Bislobo
Orc Nightblade - Bislobø
Redguard Sorcerer - Bisłobo
Imperial Templar - Bíslobo
Altmer Sorcerer - Bisløbo0 -
QUEZ420✭✭✭✭Have not purchased or received any house so farLiving that console pleb life, get mad.0
