Jesse Kurlancheek

Housing Development Notes -- Updated December 9 Maintenance is complete for this week, and we have two development notes for Housing. Up Almost immediately after the 11.2.7 patch went live, we saw players using keybinds to elevate houses off the g...

It feels like both of these points could serve as springboards for broad discussions on our approach to housing and philosophy, but it can also just boil down into: "we want you to make cool stuff with each other!"

In the meantime, have the notes:
us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/hou...

Two housing updates with today's maintenance:
1) Exterior decor limits now increase from 200 to 250 at house level 3!
2) We were going to fix flying houses to bring them back to terra firma, but you all made such awesome stuff, so we made it possible with the base UI instead.

Working with a talented, high-trust team is awesome because sometimes cool stuff is made and you only find out once the designers show it to you in action.

The level 6 house Armillary reward on Beta is one such thing.

Credit to Krez on wowkea for the screens.

New profile pic because it's how I feel scrolling and seeing so many outrageous housing creations and people vibing. It's a built-in reaction image!

(Courtesy of Jo, by way of Ogles.)

It's vibes all the way down....

Second time in as many days as Cowtown has come up!

Random thoughts while looking at screenshots:
- They used to be TGA files and man what a pain it is to browse them.
- So many character names were A+ and very lore-appropriate.
- Seeing chat in these is truly a time capsule as we all figured out the rules of the world together.

Thanks to the team who worked incredibly hard on this, the players whose excitement we fed off of and feedback we internalized, and our families for putting up with us.

We're so so excited to see what you build and welcome you home at long last too.

Today we launch housing in WoW. Feeling sentimental, I went digging through old screenshots.

I first visited Azeroth in the tech alpha (slipping in as a MMO dev at another co!) and made a Tauren (Plainsrunning!) and walked to TB.

22 years later, I can finally call it home.

Yup, folks have definitely given this feedback.

YOUR EYE ISN'T GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU?!

take those player-run theatre troupes to the next level!

What's the weird stuff you want?

In the grim dark future, there is only ... housing?

(Credit to Sparkiee on Discord)

Ngl I almost posted my office pic

20 year old me is in this video (but my floor bed was VERY COMFORTABLE, okay?!)

This is so great! I'm going to look over my glasses and say something cryptic about future housing stuff now.

And it gave me 10 years of extra confidence around raccoons and dogs!

15 years ago, I posted on Facebook about a bat on my face when I woke up and the hilarity as I tried to catch it and shoo it out. Everyone is all laughs but my friend, an infectious disease doctor is like "go to the ER, say this, and don't leave without the vaccine! It's the worst way to die!"

Haha I won't tag them but I am not the namer of things. Will confirm though that the main namer is definitely a ST nerd.

It does make me chuckle a little how full circle the career has been.

WoW Housing Virtual Tour Before you put down roots in your own cozy corner of Azeroth later this year, jump into our virtual tour for a glimpse at the evolving customization options that await you.

Come on a tour of our house!

The team did such an amazing job on this.

worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com/en-us/housing

House fight!

The cruelest monkey paw curl was the kid ramped down her berry intake because she found out about ... sushi.

IIRC some of the folks that came out to Boston talked about something similar in their videos afterwards.

UI screenshot should be fixed. Thanks for the heads up!

Welcome to the Neighborhood!

It's finally time share information on Neighborhoods and Endeavors. (Wait, Endeavors!!?)

P.S. Is it still cool to make a joke about naming my neighborhood "Orc City" or has that already come and gone?

worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com/en-us/news/2...

I was going to make a joke about a percent increase in word count but Copilot helpfully told me there were 10,000+ words and while I'm verbose, I'm not THAT bad. Thanks AI!

not as far as I know, but I'm also out on aforementioned parental leave so not paying too much attention

Nothing like that First Week of Parental Leave x Microsoft Layoffs crossover event to really get that cortisol going!