Hello, I think limiting housing to only “houses” is a bit of a mistake. I’ve now played a few games where housing is done in this fashion where you actually buy houses and it never clicked, it never made a difference and it never mattered. It ends being a place for chests and thats it. Hosues are too small, too limited in creativity and frankly decorating them is too feminine and uninteresting. PoE on the other hand allows players to have “lairs” instead of houses which is more interesting, allows for more creativity, allows to set a better and more personalized athmosphere and it’s just overall better. I hope Wicked goes in this direction instead of normal houses. Wicked enviorenements are ridiculously pretty and well designed and I’m hoping the team uses this to its full extent.
Careful, your alpha male misogyny is showing!
Decorating your house isn’t a feminine thing, it’s an adult thing lol
Lemme know when you’ll have your own home how emasculating it is to buy a kitchen or a sofa lol
There is no mysogeny in characterising something as being more feminine or masculine. 95%+ of people who will play this game will be men and I think it’s something meaningful to consider.
Yeah, I’m a man and I think decorating wicked houses is far more enjoyable and meaningful than the frigid landscapes of PoE lairs.
We could have a game with both houses and hidouts and lairs.
Decorating houses is a pain.
Placing decorations is bound to the direction of your character, so that it becomes more of a trial and error exercise. The fact that you cannot see house boundaries or “no go areas” does not help either - You moved one step too far? Deal with it.
The other problem is that houses are still filled with chests to store loot. There is simply no space for decorations in my house.
Some improvements were made, like increasing the stack limit of crafting materials/consumables, however it is not enough to make houses more than storerooms.
Sure, this won’t change whether it’s in a house or a cave, so not really an argument for this topic, but you can generally face the direction you want to put the item, then lock it in that position and move it precisely where you want.
It could surely be better but it’s not so unusable once you learn the tricks.
Yes, it’s one of the most common complaints, but simply attaching a storage space to many of currently just-decorative items would allow to have both storage space and cosy houses.
…or even better, just have one storage for each type of item and let us freely decorate the rest of the house.
I like the idea, they could make homes not only in urban buildings, but also in caves, in the woods on tree House? In an igloo in snowy areas, maybe in a shore in a repurposed wrecked ship or even a submarine (if the technology of the setting of the game allows for that); that could be a fun twist to finding and making our homes in the game!
Some of you pull the wildest statistics out of your behind.
All to justify why you should be placed in a design pedestal over other people.
Decorating is feminine? Are we just going to ignore how race cars or even a Lamborghini looks? How knight armors or soldier uniforms look, the higher the rank?
Either way I do hope we get themed architecture/housing. A mushroom/tree house for druids, a swamp witch lair, a dojo/pagoda for monks, a necromancer graveyard sanctum, etc, not just standard village housing.
Well, it kinda is relevant, since decorating is neither enjoyable nor meaningfull.
Yes, please!
I disagree, we can have multiple houses and use one for living and the others for storage.
In multiplayer even if each player takes one house as their living quarters, it still leaves 3 (IIRC) houses for storage.
Is it weird that I am a man who likes decorating houses?
I just hope they add more things to decorate with. Different varieties of books, potted plants, more instruments, or smaller candle options just to name a few.
These are excellent ideas! It would be nice to find places you can ‘claim’ as a house outside of the safety of Sacrement, but I do understand thematically why the only safe place on the island is the hub town.
Yeah, they should consider expanding the idea of housing to “bases”, not only box houses. It’s more intresting, creative and diverse then normal box houses. And looking at how beautiful this game is, it would work pretty well.
I don’t think anyone disagrees with that Chincompa, but they do disagree about your categorization that decorating is feminine (as do I disagree with that statement).
If you left that out, we would have a much more constructive conversation.
Silas
If you see decorating as feminine, how do you make it less feminine? I thought the difference between masculine and feminine decorating was simply what decorations you use, not the act itself. What kinds of things do you put on the wall of your man cave? Movie posters? Hot babes? It’s still decorating, but I would not call it feminine.
I am sorry for making feel people less of men for liking house decorations
I’m pretty sure their manhood was not challenged. The point was that men are doing it too, meaning it’s not an inherently feminine thing.
You’re still missing the point: it’s not us that feel less of a man, it’s you.
We are fully ok with being men who like decorating houses, you are the one who feels his manhood being challenged by it.
The only game that does housing right in my opinion is Animal Crossing
That and Heartopia i guess.. even tho i haven’t “played” any of those games my fiancee is almost constantly playing those games.
Of course i like decorating houses too but its usually in games such as BDO, NRFTW, Lego games (even lego racing games), honkai impact 3rd etc.
Whenever she shows me something or i see her decorating in games such as animal crossing or heartopia i throw in a few ideas here and there, of course if she wanted me to take over her tablet for a little while i would probably be stuck for hours decorating every single little detail just out of habit 
Even character customization is HELL especially before when i played BDO most of my time.. multiple times i spent 6 hours on a new character/newly released classes.. im kind of glad im taking a break from atleast that a bit well in NRFTW i still can spend 20 minutes.. but thats enough for me for now atleast.
I had something else to say, but desrocchi said it already lol.
I really hope they make decorating more feminine, as well as more masculine. I want to be able to add flowers and lace, as well as skulls and spikes. I can’t wait until they add more options to decorating in this game. The game is already so beautiful, I just want my house to be beautiful too.