Player housing disabled after WoW 12.0.5 patch due to critical bug

Patch 12.0.5 launched today in World of Warcraft, and while there were a lot of features players were excitedly looking forward to — Decor Duels, Abyss Anglers, or even helping Decimus help us by finishing the Voidforge — the patch also launched with one major thing players were not expecting or looking forward to: critical bugs that caused the Player Housing system to be disabled, at least in the US and Oceania.

This isn’t just a simple disabling of the housing zones, either. The entire system is disabled top-to-bottom — players are unable to even pull up the Housing Dashboard or learn new decor! Again, right now this only applies to the US and Oceania — Europe won’t get the patch until tomorrow, but presumably if this bug isn’t fixed by then, they’ll find their housing system turned off as well.

What’s not clear is if this is something that could have been caught during testing in the first place. Player Housing was disabled for the entirety of the 12.0.5 PTR cycle; if it was not, this potentially could have been caught before today. Without the ability for players to even poke their noses into the system on the PTR, this bug presumably went unchecked until servers went live today. We also don’t have any kind of ETA on a fix, so if you get some new furniture today, best hang onto it until we hear this is finally fixed — just in case.