Player housing is a feature that lets players buy a house in-game for themselves or for their guild. A lot of MMOs out there have it but World of Warcraft, which remains the undisputed king of the MMO hill, still doesn't.

Apparently the idea of adding playing housing to WoW has been kicked around quite a bit at the Blizzard offices -- since even before the first boxed version shipped, actually. If you're still waiting for that feature to be added, however, don't hold your breath. Chances are it may never happen.

Speaking to Eurogamer, WoW producer J Allen Brack revealed that a few design considerations have made the addition of player housing one of the last priorities on Blizzard's already lengthy list.

"Player-housing has been on the list of something we want to do even back before the original realm box [first game release] shipped - it was a feature that didn't make that," he said. "It's one of those things we talk about every expansion - what would this look like in WoW?"

"I don't necessarily think that it'll ever actually happen for WoW because the thing that we want to do is... I don't think it's sufficient enough for us in WoW to just say, 'Hey we have player housing - great.' There's got to be some reason to have that, there's got to be gameplay behind that, stuff that happens," Brack continued.

Brack added that what with Blizzard's focus on content creation to further fuel WoW and make it more successful, player housing "has fallen off the list of things that we're willing to tackle on a per-expansion basis I guess one, two, three times now - so we'll see what happens for the next time."

Via [Eurogamer]

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