I have a lot of admiration for the housing team, and for the devs responsible for creating the landscapes and everything that is so beautiful in Tamriel.
I am just a big fan of housing of of the idea of creating your own little corner(s) in this fantasy world, like most of you are.
Consider that I am playing since beta times, almost without pause. I pay a sub for many years, exactly since housing was introduced. Housing is the reason I pay for ESO plus, and the reason I occasionally buy crowns - most of the times to buy houses or rare furnishings.
My first question to the lead of the team is, do you (ever) read the feedback? I am curious if you guys have a list with the most requested features, and a timeline for implementing some of those.
For example, it baffles me why you can't deliver weapon racks, armor mannequins and empty planters, which are among the most requested items (as I said I am here from the beginning of this forum). They aren't so complex as a huge tree with VFX or animated ink sculptures. It really puzzles me that you can't do that. Racks, dummies and planters were first requested seven years ago!
My second question is about slots. I can accept that the largest houses have 700 slots, a system cap, but can't accept that a medium house can't be upgraded to the cap of 700, or have 10 more slots for a large inn room like the Rose Wine. Why can't people upgrade the slot count by at least 10% with crowns? Besides, why can't I have more NPC guests in a house, why can't I have more special collectibles? This has nothing to do with the cap, some of these items are static items that do nothing, but have a different tag in your system.
All of this (and more) has been discussed endlessly on this forum, with no or very little response from the team. Yet, you implement a system for people to visit more houses. Which is fine, it is a nice idea. However, to me it is you saying, we are very happy with housing as it is, we don't need to do anything more, just look at what amazing things people can already do with the system.
I watched the stream and saw no passion to add more, excitement for what awaits us in the future, just two people happy to play with a toy that does its thing. Please argue with me and say there is more in the near future. Like more interaction, puzzle building, teleports, traps, structural items, crafting station etc. I am really wondering why am I paying so many euros for something that gets so little improvement over the years, and to a company that has so little engagement with the players on feedback and feature requests. I know many people who invested a lot of money and gold into housing, but left the game because housing evolves so slowly. Like the luxury vendor which gets only one new item each weekend (crazy).
So, yeah... nice houses, but with Tours you added nothing to housing, it's just a way to socialize or promote a house, but many people don't make houses for that reason. The problem you are not seeing is that the housing community is waiting for a significant update for years, much like the pvp community, and the expectations were high. A large update is due. And housing tours wasn't that update.
Edited by ZOS_Kevin on November 7, 2024 10:15AM [PC/EU] Tamriel Hero, Stormproof, Grand Master Crafter