Player owned Houses - Dev. Status?

Q u o t e:
Hey Blizzard,

A quick question, which I am hoping you will be able to answer.

What is Blizzards current opinion on player owned housing, as well as guild housing?

This seemed like a great idea back in the day, when you first announced it.

Is this just an abandoned project now?

Are they still considering it?

While this originally came up before I was around, I think this has been answered at some BlizzCons since then. While we think this could be a fun idea, we also like the idea of seeing a lot of people in cities and don't want to make main cities feel like ghost towns - if you need an example of this head to Silvermoon (yeah, that's a cheap shot, I know). So for now this idea remains an interesting idea but we'd have to make sure it fits into the game well and meets our expectations which are pretty high for something like this.

Q u o t e:
So...you guys don't want to implement guild/player housing because you like a billion people standing on the dalaran bank stairs? Or plopping their massive mount on top of the well?

Seems like player/guild housing could be added while leaving enough things that are only accessible in town to keep people going there.

It's generally a better idea to keep the world filled and alive than empty, yes. It's also hard to say that letting people run off to their own cabin to relax in peace will really be a big bonus to the game for the vast majority of the playerbase. We'll see how things go in the future though.