Housing
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Housing in Guild Wars 2 – What could it be like?
Gaudete Theory suggested today’s Blaugust Group Project: It’s alive! Ancient Draft, Revived! I took a look at my drafts and decided to just go with the oldest one I have. It is this one here and I wrote the draft back in February 2013. Guild Wars 2 was merely half a year old at that…
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Guild Wars 2 Housing: First Impressions
Quite simple: I am in love. You need to play the expansion’s story in order to unlock your homestead, but it is fast enough thankfully. I only had a problem with an issue that did not let me find rifts easily. This was seemingly fixed in the meantime, though. One thing was confusing at first:…
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Thoughts on Guild Wars 2’s housing
When I first saw the announcement of housing coming to Guild Wars 2, I was both excited and pessimistic about it. Even though there is Guild Housing already, who knows what the system will be like in the end? But from everything we have learned so far, it seems to be really very close to…
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Guild Wars 2: Housing is coming?…
Quite recently, I got the urge again to play an MMO. My choice was between Guild Wars 2 and Lord of the Rings Online. I opted for the latter because whenever I do want to play GW2, I am reminded that there is so much left that I need to unlock first if I want…
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LotRO: Disappointing Housing
I know I am ranting about the same topic over and over again: The player housing feature in Lord of the Rings Online is just disappointing. They have been improving it over the years, but even though I think every time “Now it’s something I can at least enjoy a little bit!” – as soon…
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Which MMO has the most useless housing system?
I saw this article on Massively Overpowered about useless housing systems in MMOs. Of course, this is a more or less subjective question, but that’s why I liked reading about their choices. Massively Overthinking: Which MMO suffers from the most useless housing system? My first thought – I’m only going with the MMOs I have…
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New World and Housing
One of the main reasons that I decided to buy New World, after all, was its Housing feature. It’s no Rift or Wildstar housing (or – insert any other MMO housing that is superior to others), but it is housing! And not in the sense that Lord of the Rings Online has housing because their…
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What’s the point in housing?
In a post musing about the problems with housing in MMOs, Roger from Contains Moderate Peril said that you can ask 100 players and will get 100 answers as to what makes good housing good. And this made me think when is housing good for me? For example, I love the housing in Rift and…
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MMOs are weird virtual worlds… – Where’s the toilet?
With the exception of very few MMOs, there are simply no toilets or just in general bathrooms in MMOs. Apparently, there is no need for hygiene? From the top of my head, I know that there are a few in World of Warcraft, but they’re mostly related to corresponding quests. I don’t remember the zone…
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Looking for a new MMO-home
We still have not heard anything from gamigo and their plans with the games they acquired from Trion. Of course, all of this doesn’t necessarily mean that Rift will be closed or that much will be changed for Rift as it is now. But I’m still not feeling too confident and decided to look for…
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Rift Dimension building project: Tempest Island IV
I switched to different projects thinking I’ve run out of ideas how to continue with this dimension, but in the end, I always get some ideas for little things I can add. I’ve made a list now and am slowly working through it. Comparing yourself with others is always a bad idea, because there will…
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Rift Dimensions: Tree House in Moonshade Pools
For months, I’ve been dreaming about making a tree house for my elf (Kelari, actually) rogue in Rift. I had chosen the Stone Grove already, but something didn’t “click”. It has a huge big tree in the middle and is just asking for a tree house to be built. Yet, nothing happened. I started by…
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Rift Dimension building project: Tempest Island III
I just realized that the last time I showed my Tempest Island dimension was almost one year ago. I did not add too much to the main rooms on the lower floor of the house. The kitchen got a little kitten and some more bottles, mugs and the like. The stove got some control “knobs”. The…
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Rift Housing: Stone Grove
My newest housing project is “Stone Grove”. I want to build a house up in the trees. I guess I’ll also have to plant a few more trees, as the ones existing in the dimension only look strong on the ground, but get too thin up there. Anyway, it is currently a mess and I…
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Wildstar’s Jumpstart Pack – Is it worth the price?
I only just wrote about Wildstar’s housing and wondered whether you could get the housing teleporter and now they added it to their store for the cost of 720 NCoins. I assume that once the game launches on Steam, it will appear as DLC in their store as well. 800 NCoins cost 10 €, so…
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