Guild Wars 2's Housing looks AMAZING

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[@silimaurtelemnar9373]

The resource collection nodes exist in GW2 already in the home instance (they aren't new), this is just them porting it over so people don't lose them. You can clear it once a day and invite people to your home instance to collect them too. Fun note, they hired a veteran Sims 4 dev to help develop the housing system :D

[@kennethriddle433]

Just as long as he leaves the monetization style where he came from, we'll be fine.

[@IRedpunk]

​@@kennethriddle433 designers and suits often don't like each other, so I wouldn't worry about that

[@42GELO42]

The home instance gathering nodes have been in the game since before WoD was released. And they always had the 24h cooldown for them in GW2, unlike the garrisons. So it's not the ArenaNet copying Blizzard :D

[@kesamek8537]

Blizzard does nothing but copy ArenaNet xD In this case it's more like ArenaNet copying Wildstar's housing system, and that's a good thing.

[@Rengrim]

@@kesamek8537 indeed, most obvious is dragonflight and gryphon/skyscale.. also I just smh when people tell me that fractals copied mythic+... *sigh* ...

[@bashiel]

If you let us decorate your house, you know it will be a huge shrine to Joko

[@bion-geek-le1109]

Praise Joko

[@Chaine310]

"Guild Wars 2 is older than world of warcraft"? Michael F. Preacher, GW2 came out in 2012.

[@Infyra]

Yea that didn't make much sense. I think he knows too.

[@ShiniestSkritt]

He corrected himself afterwards and said he meant GW1. But that isn't correct either. WoW came out 1 year before GW1.

[@baronfuath5872]

pretty sure he meant Guild Wars as an IP, because GW1 is old as hell.

[@ShiniestSkritt]

@@baronfuath5872 But it’s not older than WoW. WoW devs literally left Blizzard to make Arenanet and GW1.

[@StickofTrue]

There are less than 80 days between WoW and GW. By the way, GW2 uses the GW1 Engine. See what is possible when you have good Developers, then you don't need to waste time on Copy/Past

[@LoliNoxTan]

BTW the 63 FPS is just what the engine will lock the framerate to when you chose the 60 option in the frame limiter section. Still an odd decision to have it showing on screen

[@mormegil231]

If i have to guess we are getting a different homestead every expansion. Also the resource nodes are already in the game in the home instance. They are just moved in the homestead instead of being left behind.

[@vaellxju]

Best Housing, Best Mounts, Best Fashion, Best Openworld, Best Landscapes, Best combat feeling (for me) and soon a raid wing with NM CM AND Legendary CM ? Cant wait. We are spoiled.

[@kesamek8537]

Somehow the art style of this game still looks great.

[@Nick-pu9et]

Honestly Im a person who normally gives zero shits about stuff like housing but somehow what Anet has cooked got me excited

[@GarredHATES]

If FFXIV didn’t exist, I would be no lifing GW2. It’s a good game.

[@lorkano]

Depending what you want of course. If you want exploration and open world, gw2 is the best. If you want Raids and hard content, FF and WOW is the way to go.

[@c.krueger9530]

​@@lorkanoif you want to grind and do hardcore raiding with a rainbow explosions every 10 seconds on your whole screen, then you play WoW

[@starbog1]

Honestly I think GW2 is like a middle ground between FFXIV and WoW. I found a lot of people who didn't vibe with one or rhe other for some reason often turning to this game as their main

[@dkashb]

@@c.krueger9530 Yep, and if you want 1 mechanic every 5 mins you play FF14

[@kesamek8537]

@@starbog1 strongly agree, GW2 is where you go and breathe a sigh of relief when you can't tolerate the downsides of WoW/ESO/FFXIV. None of these mmos is perfect but GW2 has more right and less wrong, to me and many others.

[@sonicmarsh232]

I love how everytime an MMO gets a housing system everyone just turns and looks at blizzard like "So, feel like copying this yet or we still gonna be homeless bums?"

[@chris2236]

Even Maplestory has housing now Wow is the only one that doesn't.

[@slayer4932]

@@chris2236 most of wows new features in xpacs are copied from other MMOs. Kinda ironic everyone claims other mmos copy WoW when nowdays blizzard copies everyone.

[@chris2236]

@@slayer4932 I wouldn't know I haven't played since the beginning of Shadowlands.

[@ginster458]

The resource nodes can only be harvested once a day and have a fixed amount they yield, so you can't game it, the new system just makes getting it way more convenient than running through the home instances, finding all nodes and harvesting by hand

[@sl5945]

I can't believe it took Anet so long to implement proper housing. Its a money printer and they have needed a non intrusive money printer for a very long time. Hope this spells good things for the future.

[@elocfreidon]

It was first being developed for PoF, but couldn't make the deadline.

[@AATproducer]

Appreciate your reaction :) Yes, teraforming will not be possible. But if you look how old the engine is and how some structures are designed I think that even if they wanted to, this is impossible to implement and probably not even Devs can easily teraform. We currently assume that with each expansion going forward we will get a new homestead area. Lastly you hope that your guildmates can place their alts there. I don't think that this will be included. Maybe they can put statues of themselves though. But! Don't forget: this game already has guild halls. There you have 4 different guild halls which different environment and you can already build stuff like race tracks there. And anet confirmed that this home stade features will also be implemented into guild halls. So you will be able to build your own house inside of your guild halls and at least have statues if all your guild mates there. Don't forget that you can also be inside of 6 different guilds at the same time!

[@bmw9616]

Houses are one of the main monetization options from ESO. Most likely be the same here, it's a good move. A win-win to me.

[@mebrandonb]

I don't know that the gw3 rumor is actually confirmed or true if you read the article it came from, it sounded like during a heated moment it was just thrown out as a "Well we could always do a GW3" as a defense since NC Soft's other IPs were doing so poorly. Who knows. I'm excited regardless, this looks very cool AND they are bring back raids at the same time with multiple difficulty levels including an open world option which will likely give them the participation numbers to justify them going forward. Lots of hype!

[@julbot1]

Even then, GW3 wouldn't be an MMO. Splitting the playerbase would be suicide, and taking GW2 offline would be double suicide.

[@hudy2735]

2 years worth of hiring by ANet confirms a new MMO being worked on.

[@AnshinGG]

5:58 - Guild Wars 1 released in 2005, WoW released Nov. 23, 2004.

[@niclastname]

I don't normally care about player housing in games, but this looks legitimately really cool! I'm definitely interested to try this when it comes out.

[@MegaMegajennifer]

you had me at giant, blue mushrooms, i used to play terraria and i built a house under ground in an area that had a beautiful, blue glow from mushrooms

[@JayRandomness07]

Honestly looks really good, excited to see what people can make.

[@bob7975]

Some of the furniture and building parts remind me of Wildstar. Oh, please, let it be so...

[@UninformedProduction]

In game content like this bores me....but...holy shit this is a crazy cool in depth system

[@Forgotten_Moon]

thank you for checking it out ;D

[@Williame526]

Reminds me of dimensions in Rift. Hopefully, they will add more locations. You could trade dimension locations in rift and professions crafted most of the items used in the housing.

[@michaelgreen9237]

Back in Everquest2 they had housing/guildhall instances for each expansion/continent (islands, forests, jungles, plains, frozen wastes, lava fields, etc.). So I'm expecting different environments to eventually represent many areas of the game. Some of the premium housing plots included villagers/merchants to populate your personal villages.

[@ZyberFenn]

Giving me some flashbacks to house decoration of SWG.

[@medivh1035]

I look forward to build a Roman empire building that is filled with asuras

[@RockandStoneVForKarl]

Guild Wars 3 is hardly coming lol, it got name dropped in a shareholder meeting but it hasnt even started development yet.

[@ch.k.3377]

To be fair, Anet always denied the housing question until the “Housing” announcement. So I wouldn't write off GW3.

[@RockandStoneVForKarl]

@@ch.k.3377I'm not writing it off, it will most likely happening, what I am saying is that it was mentioned because the NCsoft executives were getting pressed about having 1 whole profitable game in NCwest so they basically said well well gw3 is happenign!!! gw3 most likely exists in the early early early early stages, so I wouldn't expect it for 4-7 years.

[@mazfgit]

They should instead spend that budget on converting the game to run on a brand new engine that allows big performance and visual gains as well as an update combat system/feel. Then spam as much cosmetics as you want. The prettier it looks, the more people buy

[@slayer4932]

ya people keep expect GW3 to be announced 2025 i dont think so. Its gonna be like 5-6 years before we even get it.

[@slayer4932]

im gonna go broke with how much i spend in my charr den

[@EffToyz]

I so missed such housing after WildStar shut down ;( Can't wait for next expansion

[@MrKanooe]

Preach really is discovering the Home instance daily routine in that stream?

[@robertdunn7165]

This looks pretty awesome. I will say one MMO that was ultimately my favorite for player housing and decorating was Shroud of the Avatar. A dead mmo now but still niche. Delivered to us by the creator of Ultima.

[@methanbreather]

hm? I have vsync on and frames capped at 75, because that is the most pleasant for me. He might have the 60Hz limiter on.

[@traviscue2099]

This gives us a reason to use the nodes in our home instance, I ignore my home instance becuase its honestly boring..

[@crackedcuore1989]

GW3 is NOT confirmed, Preach. No official announcement, merely speculations and rumors that are most likely not true.

[@seekittycat]

It's gorgeous 😍😍

[@Snillomator]

I don't mind the houses/stables themselves being static but if this is the case please at some point down the line give us the option to have different house/static variants either in a new location (e.g cantha) or buy new static houses that we can pick from, lots of money for them in the gem store here. This is how they fund GW3

[@Vanico69]

Guild hall night clubs like in ff14 when? 😆

[@aMilling]

Wow pay attention!

[@MrAddummm]

I've always thought housing was one of the big MMO things this game was missing. so glad it's finally happening. but as stated in video, wish we get more different environments/homestead to play with. if they wanted, Anet can snap their fingers and give us all the guild halls to make our own personal instances as well if they wanted. just a thought..

[@dirtnap9641]

Did he really say GW2 is older than WoW?? GW2 launched after WotLK lol

[@KachZz]

would it hurt to link the original video?

[@talisredstar1543]

As a wow player.... sigh. turns away. 'Don't give me hope.

[@StickofTrue]

Don't worry, Blizzard will try to copy it. They will copy like they did for the last 12 years of Guild Wars 2 and fail. Just like they failed with Dragonflight and the upcoming Expansions.

[@talisredstar1543]

@@StickofTrue funny, almost every thing blizzard copies and puts their shine on though, over its life time has tended to be better than the Original. So much so that alot of this copying that wow's done in the past became the standard of most mmos' since.

[@ladyer0n199]

​@talisredstar1543 wow tried (and failed) to copy the hype surrounding endwalker back when that was the latest ff14 expansion. Blizzard's copying was painfully obvious, and they got clowned on

[@talisredstar1543]

@@ladyer0n199 Every MMO that has had any success has taken from other MMO's. Things we take for granted in wow, came from other MMO's of the past. But even Preach among other KZbinrs have said it and it is true. When Blizzard takes an idea, and puts their spin on it. Most of the time, not ALL the time, it has turned out well for the WoW Players. I"m not here to be Blizzard's spokesmen. They have done alot to hurt themselves in the past. But i enjoyed alot of the changes in Dragonflight and i'm enjoying what i've seen in the beta for TWW. My original comment is as it was. I want housing in wow, but i'm not so naive to think that they are going to give it to us any time soon.

[@Vindicator1998]

If we had to choose between housing and some other feature for WoW one expansion, I would pick the other feature every single time WoW just isn't that sort of game

[@bchararaad1870]

Why is letting friends decorate with you a bad thing for you? Just curious

[@Dark_Wizard_of_Mu]

It will crash down hard

[@rekah8889]

@@Dark_Wizard_of_Muwhat?

[@crackedcuore1989]

Idk why he reacted like that, it clearly said ''if you gave your friends special permissions'', its not mandatory lol

[@dinnyskips]

"we know GW3 is coming" We do not know this also letting your friends edit your instance is...optional, right? why did it upset you so much?

[@Lukosification]

Funny that DAoC did housing kinda right already soooo many years ago.

[@user-ob1fx9lp2l]

Not sure why they keep wanting this in MMO's. It didn't go over well in Warlords of Draenor (WoW). It ended up creating the expansion "where nobody ever saw anyone" since they spent all of their time in the game inside their home instance, and you could que everything pvp etc. from there. So Ironforge was empty, Stormwind was empty, and the game felt dead for an entire expansion. You'll see. Once you're done with the first few days of the new home thing, you'll realize there's ...nothing to do here. It has some RP potential but for most it will end up being nothing. You don't need a house in a game.

[@kinbailey310]

I wish wow would get housing.

[@jmoore9157]

Wow had housing in Warlords of Draenor.

[@Kitabake]

3:20 I sadly have more than 30 cahracters, but 30 is nice :)

[@JayRandomness07]

Same, I wonder how they came to the number of 30, but not that big of deal to me either, interesting nonetheless.

[@Kitabake]

@@JayRandomness07 maybe something like 9 classes x 3 elite specs :P = 27, that is how I landed on over 30 :D

[@caymrend]

@@Kitabake But there is 9 classes and 5 races xD But ye, I'm glad too that's even possible to put one's characters in there.

[@Kitabake]

@@caymrend I am glad too. For my characters I have excel spreadsheet for CLASS x RACE x GENDER xD

[@caymrend]

@@Kitabake Haha, me too. Also whats spec they have unlocked, how many bags they have. Those spreadsheets are essential xD

[@joshuahng1]

Some say its already the best player housing in mmo ever!!! Gw2!!!!!

[@elocfreidon]

Phantasy Star Online 2 downright has the best housing in an MMO since you can design the environment and tailor the NPCs how you want them, rather than being just your alts.

[@Gravesmasher23]

This is what we want i wow. !

[@MrVivi0001]

GW is older than WoW, what?

[@ExceedProduction]

It isn't all that special... except being able to freely place items, scale them, rotate them... GIVE ME THIS IN FFXIV

[@elocfreidon]

"If you trust them you can give others permission to decorate." "This crashed so hard." I'm sorry Preach doesn't have anyone they can trust. Giving permission to another player to put down decorations means they can put down an armor stand of themselves so you can also have them in your home instance, right?

[@GrandAdmThrawn]

Meanwhile lazy bums at Blizzard...

[@alconeuskhan4747]

this is all nice shit that we wish we had in wow. oooo it is a bit wod though.

[@KyleRohan]

Still no OCE servers. Intros are a mess. Game still feels budget.

[@ninnoofthelastunicorn2693]

I'm a bit mad my first thoughts on this was: "looks great, shame it's connected to the rest of the game". I wanted to love this game so much, I want to give it another shot but Dawntrail just ate my attention

[@alconeuskhan4747]

they are clearly just trying things for future stuff that will be better in gw3 i dont think they will actuallybe allowiung everything like ff14

[@Phantomff14]

nice ps2 game

[@jmoore9157]

Definitely a “garrison” home like WoW but a nice replacement for Home Instance. However, remember that garrisons were fun for a while (battles with your friends) but as usual, once they were decorated, they were quickly abandoned. Point of MMO is community play. Still, GW2 hasn’t disappointed so I’m looking forward to the new expansion.🤞

[@Zzyzix]

The difference is you couldn't really customize your garrison. Every garrison looked pretty much the same for every player of the same faction. The only differences were what buildings you chose, and eventually 90% of the players picked the same ones because they were the most profitable ones. This is more like a combination of garrisons (personal home instance + gathering nodes both of which existed in GW2 before WoD), and customizability of Path of Exile hideouts. I'm curious if there's gonna be an import/export option like Path of Exile has.

[@melissas4874]

I prefer the FFXIV and LOTRO system myself with "limited plots" because of exactly what they stated - a neighborhood feel. The difference is LOTRO was very good about opening new districts, but you couldn't own more than one home and there were other restrictions that FFXIV should put into place. I like the ESO and Wildstar type of housing too, but it's just not the same as having a neighborhood and being able to see what other's have worked on.

[@kesamek8537]

GW2 has the option to add a neighborhood system later if they wanted, but there is little wrong with the Wildstar system often stated as the best housing in any mmo ever.

[@ralphbeez1411]

I hate the neighborhood system because you ARE competing with other plots for space. Good luck if you want to be in a free company on a popular server AND get a house but get screwed over by the lottery/buying system, no house for you and people RARELY give up their houses, ever. If we could choose other people's houses to have in a neighborhood for merely viewing, that would be my ideal sweet spot.

[@rekah8889]

There are people who have played ff14 since launch who have tried to have their own plot of land and never could because the original system encouraged botting to grab them so you could sell them for real money on 3rd party sites, and the new lottery system is completely out of your control. It completely blocks a massive portion of the player base from interacting with a whole section of the game. Then If you finally get a plot of land and find that you no longer have time to play due to irl circumstances now you have to fork over the sub to keep it and make sure you interact with the system to not lose it. The “neighborhood feel” is nice and all but wow is it not worth it even in the slightest. All the house parties and other social aspects of housing that ff14 feeds off of can be done without it.

[@Tillionz]

Hey I just wanna point out gw3 is not confirmed by ArenaNet, please don't spread this as real news. We probably won't hear about a gw3 for a long time if they decide to do it. Also, as others have said, the home instance resource gathering has been a thing since the start of the game so this part is not a new feature.

[@SnarkyLesbian]

FFXIV deserves being shit on for their housing. I absolute hate Dawntrail, but I cannot quit because the game holds a gun to my house. Don't log in for 30 days and your house is gone. And to think I called WoW an abusive ex a couple years back...

[@satangw2]

too bad all the actual content they put out since 2022 is godawful

[@Dark_Wizard_of_Mu]

Preach is not impressed.

[@Popikaify]

No thanks,it looks like it was made back in 1950

[@___IG]

It's Lost Ark