Blizzard Has Big Plans For World Of Warcraft's Player Housing, And... (2026)

Exclusive interviews with WoW leads on what new features are coming and when.

When World of Warcraft: Midnight launches on March 2, it will bring with it an enormous new feature: player housing. The system is currently in early access, and even now there are new additions underway for the near future, as well as discussions happening about further off ideas.

We exclusively interviewed five Blizzard leaders about their upcoming player housing plans.

"We are adding the biggest single feature that a WoW expansion has ever added to the game," senior game director Ion Hazzikostas says. "We're pulling from 20 years' worth of content, from those cultures, from those expansions. This is a system that we're not just setting up to last for the launch of Midnight, but for years to come."

Vice president and executive producer Holly Longdale says the feature, which launched in early access December 2, immediately captivated both players and developers."I've worked in housing systems before, and I'm so proud of the team because we're almost a victim of our own success," she says. "There is a giant backlog [of requests], and I think every time the housing team does an interview or reads comments, oh, we're adding another one to the list. It's a problem for me too. I want everything now."

Early access to housing has allowed WoW players who pre-ordered Midnight to pick one Horde and one Alliance neighborhood per Battle.net account. They can choose between public neighborhoods, guild neighborhoods, or create their own with nine friends and a neighborhood charter.

Inside those instanced neighborhoods, they can choose a plot and build a house, then collect decor items (more than 1,200 and counting) to add to it. Each item can be scaled, turned, flipped, in some cases dyed, and/or freely mashed with other objects or into the exterior or interior structure of the house.

Decor items have a budget number or cost, and there is a limit to the total cost of items that can be placed inside and outside the house. That number rises as you gain housing experience and move along a reputation-like renown track, currently capped at level 5. Neighborhood quests and activities aren't live yet.

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If you don't like a neighbor's yard full of wooden flamingoes, you can easily pick up and move your house to another plot. For more egregious issues, reporting tools allow players to notify Bliz

Source: PC Gamer