Is housing dying?

morrowjen · June 2017

Tasear wrote: »

I ask this because seems hardly anyone on PC NA is selling materials anymore. Also seems like some people just gave up? What are your thoughts?

When housing first came out I rushed to do everything from the quest to find recipes and was super-excited. Then I realized there was no storage and I couldn't display things like armor and weapons and it lost 99 percent of its appeal.

Yarlenzey · June 2017

Reverb wrote: »

It's not dying, just sort of done. Most people have the houses they want and are more or less done decorating them.

That would be 'dead' then.

raj72616a · June 2017

Wolfshead wrote: »

Tasear wrote: »

I ask this because seems hardly anyone on PC NA is selling materials anymore. Also seems like some people just gave up? What are your thoughts?

The problem just like in SWTOR is that housing in ESO is very useless atm beside from adding craft table housing in both SWTOR and ESO is just for show that mean so you can show off place to other palyer which is really sad and i wrote this back when ZoS announcements housing was come to ESO.

I have house but im hardly there why mostlike for dont do anything and so out of place.

Thing the should do is
If logout in your house you should so call rest XP on char

Add NPC so it feel like living place

Add Vendor so you can buy samething like you do at any Vendor in game i mean the basic potion, food, lookpick

Fix thing like if you invite someone the come there even if you are not there and also let other player logout that your house

Add more thing to ingame house Vendor so not everything need to crafting for or Crown Store

Maybe add some buffs for you own a house maybe like few % better drop rate on gold/craft repice/craft material

Add Storage space that is bound to account

This just few thing from top of head right now for honest housing in ESO have really good potential i just hope ZoS dont waste like BioWare did in SWTOR there basically everything is in there cash shop.

i'd also like to see personal trader at home, to let me list my crafted potions and food and drinks etc, so my friends and guildmates can port to my house to buy them.

Tasear · June 2017

raj72616a wrote: »

Wolfshead wrote: »

Tasear wrote: »

I ask this because seems hardly anyone on PC NA is selling materials anymore. Also seems like some people just gave up? What are your thoughts?

The problem just like in SWTOR is that housing in ESO is very useless atm beside from adding craft table housing in both SWTOR and ESO is just for show that mean so you can show off place to other palyer which is really sad and i wrote this back when ZoS announcements housing was come to ESO.

I have house but im hardly there why mostlike for dont do anything and so out of place.

Thing the should do is
If logout in your house you should so call rest XP on char

Add NPC so it feel like living place

Add Vendor so you can buy samething like you do at any Vendor in game i mean the basic potion, food, lookpick

Fix thing like if you invite someone the come there even if you are not there and also let other player logout that your house

Add more thing to ingame house Vendor so not everything need to crafting for or Crown Store

Maybe add some buffs for you own a house maybe like few % better drop rate on gold/craft repice/craft material

Add Storage space that is bound to account

This just few thing from top of head right now for honest housing in ESO have really good potential i just hope ZoS dont waste like BioWare did in SWTOR there basically everything is in there cash shop.

i'd also like to see personal trader at home, to let me list my crafted potions and food and drinks etc, so my friends and guildmates can port to my house to buy them.

Oh! This would add some diversity into the market. Selling wierd potions, crafted gear or such. Since it would sit more... would be nice to half more than 30 slots @ZOS_GinaBruno .

fred4 · June 2017

To the OP: Yes. Oh, sorry, I thought you meant is house drying. I just painted mine...

In my imagination, that is. Wouldn't mind if I could colour the walls and brighten up the interior.

Knootewoot · June 2017

- First of all, housing is totally useless in this game.
- Second, there is for the majority people no house to their liking. I just want a normal house instead of an island/cave or huge villa
- Thurd, I can craft furniture myself and gather mats. No need to buy it. And because I don't care about housing in ESO I am not doing that either
- Fourth, seeing that 3 houses already have been changed when people bought it I will never buy an expensive house where the scenery changes when the devs see fit.

I got the free inn and bought for 3k (gold) the St. Delyn penthouse. I never went in afterwards.

Housing could be usefull
- if you could store stuff. Like mannequins where you can put on armor sets or chests so you can sort the already mess of inventory and bank management.
- If you could place vendors in your house
- If you could marry an NPC and make kids.

randomkeyhits · June 2017

I've gotten two of the starter houses (untouched) but the whole housing thing is simply on the to-do list.

Other priorities means focusing on getting to master crafter status and collecting enough motifs to be able to do the master writs and earn enough vouchers to get a targeting dummy and then the crafting tables. And that is a secondary priority!

Resources are hoarded, recipes are being learned. I'm sure that by the time I'm ready to look into housing properly I'll be in a position to enjoy it without stress.

Of course if they were to add some decent functional benefit then priorities may change. As it stands I'll get to it when I get to it but I will definitely get to it at some point.

SilverWF · June 2017

GeorgeBlack wrote: »

What do people do with housing?

Roleplay and DPS-test on dummies.
Nothing else.

jlmecub14a_ESO wrote: »

Roleplay? You can use it as a free teleport to a convenient city I suppose.

Thanks, but I have my GoTo addon, that allows me to do the same (with 5 trading guilds this is entire Tamriel), for free, without wasting gold on houses and without double zone loading.

Ahmbor · June 2017

Seraphayel wrote: »

Did Housing ever live? Come on, it's always been a pretty dead horse in ESO.

No. It is a blessing for the RP community. The housing in eso is awesome. I can build beautiful rooms, gardens or own houses, towers, etc. with stone blocks or wooden planks.

Minyassa · June 2017

Nope. But I think there would be a lot more interest if they expanded decorating permissions. Kinships in LOTRO (which are like guilds) share kin houses and everyone tends to do a lot of procuring furniture and trophies to decorate. If more than one person could add decorations there would probably be more trade in furnishings and blueprints etc.

SilverWF · June 2017

Knootewoot wrote: »

- First of all, housing is totally useless in this game.
- Second, there is for the majority people no house to their liking. I just want a normal house instead of an island/cave or huge villa
- Thurd, I can craft furniture myself and gather mats. No need to buy it. And because I don't care about housing in ESO I am not doing that either
- Fourth, seeing that 3 houses already have been changed when people bought it I will never buy an expensive house where the scenery changes when the devs see fit.

I got the free inn and bought for 3k (gold) the St. Delyn penthouse. I never went in afterwards.

Housing could be usefull
- if you could store stuff. Like mannequins where you can put on armor sets or chests so you can sort the already mess of inventory and bank management.
- If you could place vendors in your house
- If you could marry an NPC and make kids.

- There is a plenty of "just houses", i.e. Imperial house in the Malabal Tor

Yes, some kind of extra storage can be useful. The size of it would depends on the size of house.
You can place vendor: buy Merchant in the Crown Store and place it there. The same with banker. And you can complete Hew's Bane story and get a Fence too, but with 35% tax fee

SIMs is another game. I just didn't want to know, that ZOS wasted even a minute on this stuff, while this game has another and more important problems.

irstarkey57 · June 2017

All in all, I think housing is pretty cool. It's fun to do when you inevitably get sick of running vXXX for your millionth gold VO ring etc. However, housing will get boring as well without love from the developers. Sure, luxury vendor items help but you place them and boom done. What they really need is...
1. More original building materials. Perfect example, STAIRS! For the love of god. People wouldn't *** so much about space if we didn't have to use 7 basic stages every time we wanted a set of stairs. The possibilities of what people could build would be endless with better basic building materials. Would tap into to the mine craft type of people who really enjoy building.
2. Manekins. For whatever reason, people love showing off their trophies and just staring at it. Why would being able to display your vMA sharpened inferno be cool? Because you spent 90 f#%^*ing plus runs getting it and it would look awesome on your wall. Or armor set, you catch my drift.
3. Perhaps most importantly, especially now with the amount of furnishings...ZOS, we simply just need more housing space.
Im a fan of housing. Love being able to travel there to test in dummies etc. I think the whole thing has a lot of potential. I really look forward to seeing continuous improvement. STAIRS! : )

AdamBourke · June 2017

I don't think it's dying, I just think the initial hype is gone.

Just like when a new zone is released, there is a million people there at once, after a while it goes back down to a reasonable number. I think that's probably what is happening.

However, the lack of storage (or other functionality) in housing does make it less likely for me to go back home... I don't even have the basic crafting stations because for a casual player they are not that easy to get, so there is no reason for me to go home. :-(. Although I had a lot of fun decorating it, and even spent some crowns on furnishings...

MornaBaine · June 2017

Housing is not dying, it was just extremely poorly implemented.

1. No storage. That's pretty huge considering the amount of money they expect you to spend on this. So leaving out the MOST desired function was pretty bad.
2. Player visitor cap FAR too low. 24, the max amount of players that can be in the most expensive houses, was a nasty shock to those of us looking forward to being able to host events in our homes. Again, for the price demanded, this low level of functionality is unacceptable.
3. Item cap FAR too low. You want to fill that wine rack with bottles? Sure but it'll eat up SEVERAL spaces and you're only allowed a few! THIS is perhaps the worst part. Even if you sub, you'll NEVER get you house looking like you really want it to.
4. Terrible implementation of visiting settings. You can only have ONE "main residence" that you can set to allow other players to visit even if you are offline. What SHOULD happen is that players should have the option to make any or all of their houses "open" to the visitor list of their choice 24/7. We should be able to not just set guild admittance but also individual player admittance, regardless of whether or not they are in our guilds. We should be able to set any house open to our friends list as well. This is a huge missed opportunity.
5. Cut and paste buildings. MOST of the houses are lazy retreads of existing buildings in the game. There is nothing "notable" about them. If they were going to go this route then the selection of available buildings should be MUCH larger than it is.
6. Lack of building customization. Most of the houses are huge open spaces. To create separate rooms you're left using wooden platforms or stone blocks...and each one of those blocks sucks up an item space! We REALLY need to be able to get "walls" and doorway pieces in the various materials of the styles of the houses so that we can properly customize the interior layout.

And ZOS does not seem to be in any hurry to fix any of it.

dodgehopper_ESO · June 2017

AdamBourke wrote: »

I don't think it's dying, I just think the initial hype is gone.

Just like when a new zone is released, there is a million people there at once, after a while it goes back down to a reasonable number. I think that's probably what is happening.

However, the lack of storage (or other functionality) in housing does make it less likely for me to go back home... I don't even have the basic crafting stations because for a casual player they are not that easy to get, so there is no reason for me to go home. :-(. Although I had a lot of fun decorating it, and even spent some crowns on furnishings...

Housing started off really slowly. I don't believe it hit the player base with much hype because it didn't afford the player base very much. The way I see it there are only a few reasons for having a house right now: 1) Guild Meeting location where guilds can duel, discuss, and decorate toward a common goal. 2) Crafting and convenience purposes - this comes with a large dollar cost. 3) Lazy transport system. 4) Roleplay house - this is something this crowd has been bugging about since the game's inception. Even for them though I imagine it is not enough and ultimately you see them out there doing their thing anyway. 5) Artistic nature or inner architect - this is just a chance for people to get artistic with the materials available. I know a lot of people who are into this in games like this.

The current purposes are really not enough though. There is a reason most of us have only dabbled with the system. It is because most of us don't really see the features offered to be sufficient. I would love to be able to have a mannequin storage for some gear, or grow some specific alchemical/provision materials. I would love it if large and small items didn't take up the same amount of space on the list. They need to look at what the house was used for in Skyrim because I imagine that is what most of us are thinking about.

agegarton · June 2017

I'm still selling blueprints, mats, etc all the time. Prices have dropped, of course, but they always will a few months in. I'm constantly tinkering with my houses, and I know many people who are too.

In fact..... please give me more slots for furniture in my house!! 700 just isn't enough.

darkstar2084 · June 2017

I have decorated two houses now, put millions of gold into it. Kinda burnt out unless some cool stuff turns up in the luxury vendor. it has it uses though free port to a near way-shrine , dps testing, crafting. luckily I'm in a good guild, that has all crafting stations with mundus stones, so makes it useful for master writs too