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

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What’s next, a dance studio?
Watch out be like everything else in wow and be used for one expansion and then forgotten about.
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.
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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