After 20 years, World of Warcraft is getting player housing

Player housing is a staple of the MMORPG genre, giving long-term players their own private space to decorate as they see fit. This has been hugely successful for MMOs like Final Fantasy 14, but Blizzard has never explored such a system for World of Warcraft. That has finally changed, with the game finally set to get its own player housing system. 

As part of the next World of Warcraft expansion, titled “Midnight”, players will be able to buy their own homes and show them off to other players. The feature has already been in development for a while now, but Blizzard is now officially announcing it in order to gather fan feedback on what players want from a WoW housing system. This will give the developers a chance to pivot if they've skipped over a crucial feature.

As you can see in the image above, Blizzard has also shown its new roadmap for 2025, which confirms that the team plans to officially reveal the World of Warcraft: Midnight expansion next summer. The new expansion is part of a trilogy known as the Worldsoul Saga, which kicked off with last year's release of The War Within.

We'll have to wait around six months to really get a proper look at World of Warcraft: Midnight and the new player housing update. Hopefully, the expansion is on track to release in late 2025.

KitGuru Says: This is the sort of thing that would have been great to have back in WoW's heyday, when it was known as the biggest social game. Nowadays, a lot of MMO players are more solo-minded, but perhaps more systems like this can encourage random groups to form more often. 

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