World of Warcraft without a chat box and keyboard would be pointless. Socializing is a huge part of the appeal for WoW. I suppose you could use voice chat, but it’s just not the same as being able to type out conversations with multiple people at the same time and being able to converse with total strangers, without having to listen to some screeching kid hogging the voice comms.
I wonder what they’d charge… $90?
Isn’t WoW 20 years old now? I remember beta testing it and the server tests and then never really got into it.
Wild to think Blizzard has managed to milk and resell it so much.
If they wanted it to be a successful console game, they’d have to dial way back on the number of spells and abilities.
Even with schemes like L2+square, L2+R1+square, etc. you just wouldn’t have enough keys to map everything.
More games should use FFXIV’s cross hotbar system. It’s really, really good. I don’t see why this couldn’t work for WoW too.
Basically it’s hold L2 - you get 8 buttons. All of the dpad directions and the four shape buttons. Holding R2 gives you another 8. From there you can either hold R2+L2 for 8 more, cycle with R1 to another set of 16 or double tap either R2 or L2 for 8 each. More than enough for anything. People clear ultimate content (hardest stuff) all the time with controller and it’s just as normal as mouse and keyboard.
More games should follow FFXI’s console port and support Keyboard and Mouse. It’s not like the console isn’t running a flavor of Windows or anything.
I played WoW ALOT during vanilla, TBC, Wrath, and Cataclysm. The only way I would go back is if they bring it to Xbox and roll the sub in with GPU.