Sofar i haven't seen big desolate places in WoW. It's a game which is very well tought through in my opinion. I have now been playing the game for a week and I've got a lvl 46 hunter, 10 rogue, 12 shaman, 10 warlock.
The places that I've been to sofar don't seem to have room for housing, unless the game developers would come with options as chopping trees (landclearing), tunneling etc. This would mean they would have to introduce all new craft schools.
In this game it isn't planned such that you can play each and every school. So unless there would be a way that there would be a group of hired NPC's to which you would be bringing a certain amount of resources each time to build your structure and to get everything paid for I don't see how ir could fit into this game play.
The amount of resources would be so many that in a way there should be made a receipe in which players could add larger amounts of resources into for example a box which when filled up can be turned in to the NPC.
In a way this would be a quest the NPC gives you. Upon returning the box the structure will be build.
WoW Housing not coming in the Near Future
Nethaera has spoken!
We have women on the development team as well as in many other departments.While WoW housing was indeed planned at one time early in the process, it is no more, and apparently, never will be, if current plans do not change.
Player housing is something that may happen in the future but there are no plans for it just yet. Good try though! If I had a house in game, it would just be crammed full o f weapons with maybe one throw rug so I didn't look like I didn't care about how it looked completely. ;)