World Of Warcraft is finally getting players home after 20 years

Blizzard has announced that two decades after its release World of Warcraft will finally allow players to build and live in a house. The feature has been requested for a long time Wow Players and now it's finally coming in the game's next expansion.

Player accommodation is an important part of many other popular MMORPGs, such as: The Elder Scrolls OnlineFinal Fantasy 14, And New world. But it was never a feature in World of Warcraftalthough files left in the game indicate that Blizzard had been working on a version of it early on WoWs Development. The company has even joked about player housing in the pastto. But now, after 20 years, Blizzard is finally doing it, although it probably won't be in the game for another year or more.

On November 13th during Blizzard's 30 years Warcraft Eventthe studio revealed many plans and updates for various Warcraft games. The section of the presentation about the future of Wow was concluded with a very small nod to player accommodation. Here is that teaser:

PC gamer spoke with Wow Director Ion Hazzikostas about the teaser and confirmed that Blizzard is bringing player homes to the MMORPG. However, as can be seen in the teaser, this feature will not be added until the next expansion. midnight. So why tease now?

“We want to give the players a little taste of what the team is cooking,” explained Hazzikostas PC gamer. “I think it also gives us a chance to have more open conversations about it that aren’t possible when it’s a top secret feature.”

According to Hazzikostas, Blizzard wants to hear “what people are excited about, what they expect and what they want from housing.” World of Warcraft. The plan is for this post to help “lead the team’s development efforts” in the area of ​​player housing.

“[Player housing] An idea that had been around for a long time – but we knew we had to be able to execute it properly. “It's a tremendously large undertaking,” said Hazzikostas, who also explained that another reason for housing now is that Blizzard has been developing new technology behind the scenes Wow to enable this function.

Now people can stop harassing Blizzard about player housing World of Warcraft and start pestering them about how much they don't like the way player housing works Wow as soon as it is available in the game.