Homsteads ARE AMAZING - Guild Wars 2 - HUGE REVEAL with PC Gamer! 

Guild Wars 2: The only place I'll ever actually own property. LOL

This is the thing that ANET does best. They put a twist on an MMO staple and make something really awesome. Alts that you can put in your instance, mounts that you can park in the stable, insta-gather. That SIMS dev that they hired needs a promotion right away. This is incredible.

I'm super excited GW2 is going in this direction. The home instances were useful but it didn't have customization like we had hoped. Homesteads are definitely going to be much more fun to play with. I can't wait!

I am so excited for this! This is really gong to boost player activity in the game and farming for materials is going to be crazy. People are going to be doing all the things in the game to get items needed to create in their Homestead. The games economy is going to see a huge boost. That will mean resources usually available for cheap in the Trading Post are probably going to really go up in price. I already have ideas for what I want to create. The fact that they plan to put the Homestead placing features in Guild Halls is a really nice touch.

Damn... I didn't think they would have the "Alts" feature at all, let alone allow 30 of them.

I am impressed and look forward to this "home" :)

You can also build Roller Beetle tracks in the Homestead. Here's an idea: Make a track, sink SAB barf clouds into the track = since the clouds activate on contact then you can make it so that the next part of the track is a hole with a rainbow road that spawns in if you drive over where the cloud is.

you get a lvl80 boost with the basic expansion price. You prob gotta do 1-2 quests and bam -> can spend the rest of your days in the homestead :)

Everything about this feature has exceeded my expectations. The only thing not mentioned that I hope they would include is saving layouts and sharing layout codes. That would be so important for a user-generated-content focused community.

Amazing...beyond expectation

this is so good!!!! i hope they include ranger pets and library for my books too!

Glad they've improved on eso system for most part. There will still be a few things I'm wondering about, like will non jw players get to see ur home. What will they do with the home portal Stone? Will they allow it to goto homestead too or create a new item to replace it. If there is a teleport to homestead will it put ur char back to where you were or if you log off in homestead will it work like guild hall. Can players be given permission to enter without the owner needing to be logged in? Some of these will probably be no, but have to wait for its release to know for sure. One thing is for sure, i can see them creating new homesteads in different regions and in different sizes and make those be gemstone only of 4-8k gem price tags. Afterall some of those eso houses are $100 bucks lol I do feel this expansion will help decrease the gold bloat anet has created over the years lol

imagine rebuilding old lions arch in your homestead

I wasn’t really excited about this feature when I first heard about it, but now I’m seeing that it’s going to be implemented well and has some features that I will want. I wonder if they will ever be able to make homesteads character bound, so when they are available in different locations, we can customize them to different alts?

looks SO GOOD...

Literally two issues I have and they're pretty damn small: The 1000 placeable objects may feel limiting. Honestly hope they can up that in time, would be happy to pay for it personally. I don't want to log in and see my alts randomly dancing in a cave. I really hope they're placeable in some way, maybe sitting in an area of your choice doing, you know, normal things. Other than that it's everything I hoped for and more, which is high praise from someone who treated housing as my endgame in Wildstar

One item needed for this: A Book Shelf for all those wayward books that I have been hanging onto in my bank.

"Kribz of Tyria" is a go!

Im thinking rise of Sims games might be connected to people cant afford buying a house anymore😑 Also Im glad we can leave our alts to house as npc it was one of the topic we asking for housing in reddit.Its promising we getting a better crop farming system if we can have husbadry system that we can gather milk,meat or egg it will be perfect homestead system.

I think they're gonna have to keep home instance for all the ppl who dont own janthir wilds

People are gonna Minecraft this thing.

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