After 20 Long Years, WoW Is Getting Player Housing In Its Midnight Expansion

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What’s next, a dance studio?
Again copying guild wars 2?
- I think FFXIV has a housing system for a very long time now.
  
  yea true. wow just recently copied the gw2 flying mounts and gw2 just released its expansion with housing this year. definitely not a new thing in mmo
- There are unused assets in the original World of Warcraft that suggested a player housing system was being developed but never finished. The idea is as old as MMORPGs are.
  
  The Anime/Manga/video game series dotHack, which is about a fake MMORPG, predates WoW by several years and has player housing for some of the characters.
  
  Interesting unfinished housing projects in vanilla wow, I wonder how that would’ve worked.
- Ultima online had player housing in 97, it's not exactly breakthrough tech
  
  There were probably text based online games (MUX/MUSH/MUD/...) that had it even earlier.
Watch out be like everything else in wow and be used for one expansion and then forgotten about.
Imagine they start selling plots and then have a housing shortage because of speculators. I wouldn't put it past Microsoft!

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