I like the player housing style of Darkfall, the upkeep isn't unbearable. You pay taxes once a month, based on where you live. IE, an island in the middle of one of the high end zones with spawns right outside, amazing resources, and all that you pay a lot, where as a nooby zone, not so much.

The thing with ESO is, a lot of stuff "Should" be craftable. Like maybe Blacksmith would forge the nails, Woodcraft the planks, and etc or even go so far as Enchanting using some form of magic to make your house more... Magicy.

Guild halls would be nice to hang around aswell, especially if we ever get Guild Heraldry.

It was working in the PTS, the beta was broken because of NA / EU together and it confused the megaserver. They found a fix for it, then more played when it went live than anticipated. Its a brand new game, of course theres going to be problems. WoW was one of the most broken games ever on release and look where it is now.

It also is a massive gold sink, a lot of RL friends and myself all have over 150k each saved up. Theres really nothing to spend it on either. Mounts are a joke amount a day, I buy siege stuff with gold when available, I have every motif. Housing would be nice to throw gold at.

I think crafting stations in the Guild Halls would be nice, like if were your own little city but honestly I would want it to be ludicrously expensive so as only some people could have it. Its definitely not something every guild should have.

I like it how it was in EQ2 when it launched ( I found that most enjoyable housing from all MMORPGs I've played):
You can rent a house/apartment in a town/city, pay daily/weekly rentals, then you can customize it using your crafting skills (woodworkers could craft furniture and such), improving overall quality of walls and stuff using hard earned gold. It all resulted in unique looks of the each apartment.
Also you could place crafting benches in your apartment, which was cool.
You can also manage permissions for your property, so me and my brother had full access to the apartment and both invested in improving it.

Main thing is that house should be customizable, not cloned apartments, like in gta5 or some MMOs where you cant change anything and u got bored of them in 10 minutes.

For now I think that there are a lot of work zenimax should do before even considering housing, like broken questlines, skills, lags and interface sensitivity, gold spammers, bots and such. But while servers are down why dont we talk about our perfect MMO housing, nothing better to do

I agree that player housing would be a great addition. I loved the Dimension style of housing in Rift. Lotro's version was awful. It would need a lot of customization and free form movement, not 10 pre-selected spaces you can apply a few trophies too. But I have seen some amazing locales in game I would like to see offered as player housing. So I am all for it and hoping if it does happen, its done in a fun and creative way!

Yes - But only for guilds (sorry had a mis-click)

Personal? No...just no. EQ2 burn out a from a LOOOOOONG time ago.

Now concerning guild "halls" I'm still undecided. I can see certain possibilities happening; seeing how we are able to belong to 5 different guilds at the same time plus having the private stores and all, (members from our guild A could to buy from our guild B's store, but not be able to sell and vice versa), and ultimately becoming a self-sufficient economically sound society among the player base.... Though, one "con" that could (or would) possibly be is with a conflict of interest concerning a majority of the NPC vendors and potentially making them obsolete.

(edit) but it might possibly be a {solution?} to tighten that noose around the gold farming bots. Sorry just a thought, I'll have to think tank a bit on how it could possibly work out.

I can just imagine the very cool trophies up on a shelf that I have collected, instead of destroying them for bank/bag space >.< I love in game housing and would love love to see this.

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Personal? No...just no. EQ2 burn out a from a LOOOOOONG time ago.

It's a completely non essential, cosmetic feature that exists only as another thing to do. Why should people not have it because you feel burned out from a different (and old) game that has nothing to do with this one?

I vote yes, because it's a fun way to add a personal touch that doesn't effect the gameplay. But only if it's just that. No bonuses to gameplay, just cosmetic and fun.

Mix DAOC Foundations with LOTRO housing, would love that.

I can't wait to see player housing. Hopefully they can fix all the bugs first. eventually this would be great to have however.

Yes yes, and, yes. I love housing, it's what usually pulls me into a game. Cosmetic housing, purely for fun and perhaps additional storage, is an excellent idea and often encourages different types of players to join in.

For me, it gives your character a place to call home. Not just "I sleep in this inn everynight", but a place I can hang my fish trophy.

For me, the whole point of an MMO is immersion. I want to become part of the world I'm playing in (which is why it bothers me when the world is inconsistent - such as having creatures at bizarre levels... like L17 mudcrabs...). Being able to have a home in the world can go a long way toward doing that for me.

I spent more time in Star Wars Galaxies just patrolling around looking for a perfect place for a house than I spent on ANY other activity - and I loved every minute. In essence, I was creating my OWN adventure, which I think is absolutely critical for an MMO. Developers can never keep up with the demand for content, so they have to make things detailed and open enough for us to entertain ourselves. That's the strength of the "sandbox" format, and a lot of developers have missed that reality.

In truth, I used to take over houses waaaaay back in Arena. I loved building my Wizard's Tower in Morrowind. I'd love to see it here, too. I'm just not sure how they could implement it. There's not a lot of open space to plant houses anywhere (like Galaxies), so it might have to be something instanced, like LotRO's neighbourhoods.

Yes, private instance where i can go to relax, unload inv and decorate, have social functions etc. but i dont want the prefab stuff from skyrim, had about as much creativity as a connect the dots puzzle

The absolute BEST housing system was in now gone Star Wars Galaxies, only game which has come close to it and retains the best housing system of all current MMO's is EQ2. It lacks the option of choosing own house style as per-existing models are used (unlike in SWG) and you're also limited to specific locations (unlike in SWG, which means no player cities) but on the inside, everything is so far very good. You don't have some silly "hooks" which per-determine the location of any and all items you can place, instead houses have item limit (which can also be upgraded, to a point) and you can place items anywhere (though some items may go to a specific general area like paintings on walls, etc, though that can also be adjusted with specific tools). House items can be crafted with Carpentry (so woodworking would work well, with some additions from smithing and cloth making, some alchemy and enchantment things for "bling" and "shiny" things perhaps), many quests also give unique looking house items as rewards, or trophies what can be added.

I'd say that the Hearthfire system as it was used in Skyrim would work well, just that don't add "hooks" or "spots" or some such fixed item locations nonsense, rather give different max item limit per different house type/size and let players place anything anywhere, as they want. And make so that items used in the game can also be used as decorations, for example if I want to add my first weapon or first ever self made armor set on some stand or plaque, it should be possible.