Feldon 
A seventh Prestige Housing portal has appeared on Test and EQ2Wire went to check it out.
The new Enchanted Kromzek manor joins the largest Prestige Houses including the sprawling Mistmoore Estate.
Visitors to your Kromzek manor will need to traverse an ice bridge before enjoying an impressive facade.
The cavernous hall should offer many opportunities for decoration. It is currently unclear how the Enchanted Kromzek Manor will become available to players, although StationCash is probably a good guess.
Copy/paste much?
Does anybody really care about having multiple houses?
Ive only ever owned a single room Inn dwelling but i got one of those mistmore places last yer for free so i upgraded…. then just dumped all my stuff in the first hallway i found…. Ive only entererd it 3 times in the last year… its so big that even having horded every house item ive ever found i couldnt fill it.
Our Guild hall is much more convienient with the recall spell and it looks like alot of Dev work for the half dozen people on each server who actually want/need multiple “prestiege” housing?
Yes, some people do and love the possibility. And I would love to get those new prestige houses.
There is no way they would add prestige houses if it was only a “half dozen people on each server”. Let’s be realistic here.
Also, these are the first prestige houses I’ve seen which might convince me to pony up.
The Dojo is a broom closet, although apparently there may be some plans to add an outdoor area. The Everfrost house is gloomy, the Mistmoore Crag Estate is almost impossible to decorate due to the strong theme and preexisting elements, the Library was fun for the Epic quests, but since you can’t rearrange the bookshelves, it’s pretty limiting. I admit the Djinn house has charm, and the Opera house would make a nice home theater. 😉
But just as a *house* the Kromzek manor is very attractive.
You have to look at some of the smaller houses as rooms instead of houses.
And yes, primal, people do care about this stuff?
I could ask the same about raiding since no one I personally know in game actually raids.
I’m not seeing what all the excitment about these 2 new houses is about. There basically just copies of thurgadin and Iceshard Keep. Is there anything unique about them that I am missing?
I just want to know when they’re going to “relax” the “10 house” limit. Having to go Fan Faire, being a Freeblood, being a 7-year veteran, and playing LoN, I’ve had SIX “prestige” houses over the years (and especially just before they came out with multi-housing) that I haven’t been able to use. Now, I have 6 houses. I’ve also bought regular housing in Maj’Dul and Neriak so I can easily get to every evil city (I own the LoN Gorowyn and Freeport houses).
I now own eight houses. That opera house looks good, the new one looks good . . .but if they come out with more . . . I’ll never be able to get them. They HAVE TO do it soon. It was mentioned at first, by Smokejumper, that there’d be no upper limit . . . but WHEN will THAT be?
Nercissa,
Well, you can’t place furniture in Thurgadin or Iceshard Keep. 😉
Actually they already stated flatly they are not adding to or expanding the dojo. And the “half dozen players per server” comment was regarding multiple housing. Truth is, very few people wanted multiple housing. They DID want prestige housing (for a housing option, not for owning more than one), they wanted more broker slots (which we got, but in a way that screwed anyone who had crafted and was selling expanders, and those that had previously bought the vault expanders), more item slots in existing houses (which we still haven’t gotten)… but the people that actually wanted multiple houses specifically were in the minority. That’s one of the big reasons there was such a big fuss over all the problems that multiple housing caused, problems everyone had to deal with despite never wanting the thing to begin with. And there are still serious unresolved issues (for example: DO NOT relinquish your house from the guild hall member portal amenity; even though it allows you to do so, it will cause your guild hall to become inaccessible by all members until repaired by a GM).
The people that did want multiple housing were those that bought Freebloods and/or pre-ordered every expansion that got you a prestige house, or got the ones from LON. So now let’s be realistic… how many people actually had this wide selection of multiple houses forcing them to choose just one of many before this housing update? Very few.
@ Nercissa: I agree with you 100%. I don’t see what’s so amazing about all this. All SOE does is copy-n-paste some existing zone, like they do for all the holiday events (ZERO creativity skills), and now they are charging us money for a copy-n-pasted partial zone as houses. They can’t even come up with a new idea that’s just themed like the surrounding areas. I first started learning what I could expect when I inspected all the houses in the first city I started in when I started playing the game. They are all virtually identical, with just 2 or 3 variants for the entire city. I thought each door would lead to a completely different floor plan… /sigh, not in a SOE game.
But still, regardless of how blatantly little effort SOE puts into them, people are paying for these “prestige” (EQ2 speak for “I’m a sucker”) homes hand over fist, but that’s really not surprising.