• demizerone@lemmy.world
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    1 hour ago

    Imagine they start selling plots and then have a housing shortage because of speculators. I wouldn’t put it past Microsoft!

    • Feyr@lemmy.world
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      3 minutes ago

      Ultima online had player housing in 97, it’s not exactly breakthrough tech

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      7 hours ago

      There are unused assets in the original World of Warcraft that suggested a player housing system was being developed but never finished. The idea is as old as MMORPGs are.

      The Anime/Manga/video game series dotHack, which is about a fake MMORPG, predates WoW by several years and has player housing for some of the characters.

      • d15d@feddit.org
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        15 hours ago

        yea true. wow just recently copied the gw2 flying mounts and gw2 just released its expansion with housing this year. definitely not a new thing in mmo