Like most players I wonder what the state of player housing is.

I got a little suprised when I read the blog post for the Town Hall meeting I assume was the first one dated June 14 2021.
https://forum.projectgorgon.com/showthread.php?2866-Blog-post-Town-Hall-June-14-2021&highlight=Town+Hall

The way I see it back in 2015 when the Kickstarter of this game was created, the devs made three promises to the community and future players:

  • Player Housing
  • Guilds
  • Mounts


I call this a promise because these game functionalities were used as arguments to make people found the future development of the game.

In the trailer for the Kickstarter campaign the following was said:

"The founds of this Kickstarter are going to be used to help and improve the art assets and implement other vital game functions such as Limited Player Housing, Guild Functionality and Mounts."

To my understanding (keep in mind I am pretty new to this game. In this current space and time I've played 227 hours (according to Steam)) Guilds and Mounts are in the game. I mean I'm in a guild right now and I have amount. 2 out of 3, not bad ❤

But what about Player Housing?

In the forum thread I linked above (Town Hall June 2021) the official statement about Player Housing was that it was at 0% and "barely in the design stage at the moment".

How can this be? 😭

7 years. And now it's not even on the roadmap. Is there even a roadmap? If so, where is it?

Being transparent about development is in my opinion crucial if developers are using the community as part of the development and especially if foundings are being extracted from the community and players.

So.. what I wonder.. is that many players still ask about Player Housing and want it in the game. And the developers talked about it and wanted it too.

What went wrong?
Did anything even go wrong?

Maybe the focus of the development exactly has been where it should have been over the years.
I mean, developers could probably make a game where they think a specific feature would be a great part of the game but in reality, it could turn out not to be. Players can probably want other features even after getting pitched a new interesting game idea. Plans can change. And that's totally fine. As long as everyone is in one it. ❤

But since players still are asking about this and it still is not in the game I would argue that this is not the case.
Many things promised and talked about are probably in the game (I hope) but Player Housing is still something not in the game or even on the roadmap as of 2021 as we know it.

I want to hightlight the fact that this feature was part of the Kickstarter 2015 founding.

Also, please don't get me wrong. I love this game ♥ It has a beautiful game idea and for the most of it great game design. I want this game to be the best it can be. For both the players and the developers. ♥

But I do find it a bit strange to have this specific feature thing of all the things of this game not even of any kind of roadmap as of now.