A long-standing housing release in World of Warcraft
Blog Andrew Joseph 01 Oct , 2025 0
It's been more than a year announcementthe long-awaited housing characteristics of World of Warcraft have finally reached prime time, and we have a date now. Early Midnight, Midnight, the new expansion before December 2, 2025 will begin early housing visits.
The news came directly from Blizzard, and he shared it with us Early Alpha preview game. During this preview, we actually came across some new housing systems: we explored some communities that could be used to build houses, moved some chairs and tables, and dyed several tablecloths.
While we haven’t had enough time to fully explore the various options available for commitment, we can confirm that there are already many people who can customize their housing spaces, even when it’s just starting out from the shell in the housing tutorial. While we didn't try some more advanced features, in yesterday's Blizzard's speech, we looked at how players can add rooms of various shapes, items that are adjusted on very stereotypical levels, and even decorate the appearance of a house with fancy chimneys and towers, exquisite gardens and appearances or people around people or humans or humans and humans or appearances. If we had access to a variety of decor available from the start, we might never leave our house.
First, players can choose a seat for their home in one of the many different themed spaces nearby. For league players, it includes spaces like farms, fall forests, coastal plains, and next to local cemeteries. For tribal players, options include areas themed on Durotar's Red Rock, Mulgore, Oasis, etc. Some houses are close to others, while others are separated. You can join a public community with strangers, or join a public community with guild members or in-game communities. All of this is cross-attack, although you end up having to choose a coalition or adult-themed community and be locked into one architecture or another. Each player and each team can have two houses: one in the league community and one in the tribe.
Currently, all of this can be explored by players who have access to the game Alpha, so want to see streamers, content creators and the United States share more about housing in the coming weeks. However, before the actual extension is released, anyone who has already pre-purchased World of Warcraft: Midnight will access this feature on their own. We don't have a final release date for midnight, although it is expected in early 2026.
For more information on midnight, check out our The original Alpha preview impression is here.
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