World of Warcraft

It would be really cool if we could play World of Warcraft on the xbox one! I think that will drag really many pc players to xbox one. You can either make keyboard and mouse support on the xbox one or we could just make keybindings to use on the xbox one
controller! This would be really cool.

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World of Warcraft

[quote user="Nameloi"]

People would need to remember a library of spells and abilities in order to say them for the console to pick it up, people are not gonna memorize them there are too many.

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The only way MMOs will work on consoles is if they are built from the ground up for consoles, Defiance is one of those games. A game like WoW will not work on consoles and will not be ported.

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MMOs can work on consoles as is. FFXI and FFXIV are perfect examples. Both work excellently on consoles and give the same experience you would be getting as WoW or on the PC. All it takes is a developer to put a game on consoles that's good. Final Fantasy
has proven it works.

 

World of Warcraft

[quote user="Tatakai no Kami"]

You say the hate for it is because it is not as good as 2. Then why does that reason that it is not as good come down to "it was made for consoles?"

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I have never said that. All i have said on that matter is that Devs said they did have console releases on their mind during development.

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I gave you the reason why most Diablo fans were NOT satisfied with Diablo 3. Because when compared to D2, it feels like a shell of a game. D1 has more depth than D3. The Diablo series took a step backwards in overall game play and replayability with D3.
Anytime a game franchise goes backwards, it is never a good thing. The more simplified controls i care not about, most games NEED more simplified controls, D1 and D2 is something that needed a bit of simplification.

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'But when the REST of the game was simplified in every other aspect, i guess it just piles on.

 

Assuming this would even happen (it's very unlikely) because most of the people who care for that game already have it and are probably not going to be willing to re-purchase it or re-level their characters from scratch.

 

WOW is dying. It would be pointless and a waste of time, money, and resources to port that game to any console. Besides there are other more recently released MMORPGs that blow WOW out of the water.

 

It will never happen. I played WoW for many years and have recently un-subbed as the game is in decline. A lot of the appeal of WoW to many players was that it was a PC only title.

 

I've played WoW since launch and the WoW is dying comments always give me a good laugh. Currently 10 million subscribers with a low of about 8 and was up to 14 after the most recent expansion.

I think Rift and EQ2 are better MMO's based on their challenge considering WoW's difficulty has decreased significantly since launch to appeal to a more causal demographic but from a content and polish standpoint WoW is king with FF XIV being it's closest
competitor.

The reasons we'll never see it here is that Blizzard isn't going to give up a cut of their subscription fee's, keyboard support would have to be added and the console wouldn't allow add-ons. Without the last two end-game raiding wouldn't be an option.

 

i would also like to see a console port to xbox1x, with a small team from both sides on a vanilla version the game would be great. in my opinion add'ons took alot away from the gaming experience, and id really enjoy a console version
that focused solely on the game and gave everyone a fresh start and opportunity to play wow from the beginning as a community.

 

Here's the problem with the idea of bringing World of Warcraft to the Xbox One. It has a subscription to play it.

Now people already pay Microsoft for the permission to play on other companies servers via the Xbox Live Gold subscription. Are people going to be happy if they then have to pay Microsoft for permission to play on those servers and then have to pay the company
itself in order to get access to them.

I know people will argue "well Gold gives more than just online play" and that is true but how many people do you think would bother to subscribe to Gold if online multiplayer wasn't part of the package.

Slipped on a tangent there but I truly believe that people would not be willing to pay two levels of subscription in order to play one game.