If World of Warcraft was to come to 360...

- Would you buy it?

- Would it become more popular?

- Would it be a good MMORPG for the 360?

I think I would definitely buy it. I don't have it, but it looks like a great MMORPG for the PC. I mean I haven't heard of any MMORPGs for the 360 yet, and I think this would be a great start.

Your thoughts?

I couldn't care less about the game and would never under any circumstance play it. Those types of games or for a certain type of person and I am not one of them.Large_Soda

You obviously have never seen the Wow interface.Jigsaw9798

Actually I have. I figured you'd be able to choose abilities with the D-pad

I probably wouldn't, though I do think the 360 would be more than capable of playing it. You would just need to have one of the larger hard drives. Especially with the new xpac coming out.

The main difficulties in playing it on the 360 would be communication, control and mods. If you've ever seen the interface, there's a lot to hotkey. It would be difficult to play well without a keyboard and mouse. The main problem I've found is that it's extremely awkward to use a keyboard while lounging in front of the tv playing games. The keypad might work somewhat, but that might also be a bit awkward.

Communication problems fall under the same mods problem. In order to fully participate in raiding, you need to have some 3rd party mods. Threat meters, boss mods like Deadly Boss Mod, and class related add-ons like decursive and pally power. Threat meters will be added in WOTLK, from what I hear, but a number of the mods required for raiding are still developed by the community. There would need to be a way to distribute those to Xbox players.

Ventrilo falls into the same category of 3rd party downloads. Blizzard did add an in game voice chat, but it sucks and nobody uses it. Any raiding guild uses some sort of 3rd party voice chat program like Ventrilo or Team Speak. Very little is communicated in text during raid time.

[QUOTE="Jigsaw9798"]You obviously have never seen the Wow interface.jwgamer119

Actually I have. I figured you'd be able to choose abilities with the D-pad

Sorry 4 buttons just doesn't work at all in raids. The targetting would also be hell especially for healers and tanks.

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[QUOTE="Jigsaw9798"]You obviously have never seen the Wow interface.Jigsaw9798

Actually I have. I figured you'd be able to choose abilities with the D-pad

Sorry 4 buttons just doesn't work at all in raids. The targetting would also be hell.

Yeah. That would be a nightmare. A lot of the boss and even trash encounters require too much quick reaction time. I can't imagine AoEing some mobs down, while also decursing and keeping a finger over iceblock just in case with a controller.

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I see no possible way for them to integrate the pc interface into the 360. Ghost_702

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[QUOTE="Jigsaw9798"]You obviously have never seen the Wow interface.Jigsaw9798

Actually I have. I figured you'd be able to choose abilities with the D-pad

Sorry 4 buttons just doesn't work at all in raids. The targetting would also be hell especially for healers and tanks.

There would be to much work for blizzard to do to make it a smooth playable game imo, not to mention the clusterfunk of an interface you would have to deal with, though that could be fixed with say a keyboard and mouse that came with the game or something *shrug* I am quite sure Blizzard is happy doing what they are doing for the time being though.. they making a couple bucks lolCzenkus

Yeah, a couple million bucks lol.

It would be nice to see it come to 360. 360 only needs one big MMO to break the anemic amount of MMOs coming to consoles. RTS games broke through nicely. I would like to see MMOs do the same because I would die to see the Marvel Universe MMO they talked about last year come to 360!

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-No

-Maybe slightly

-Maybe

Im already paying for my gold subscription. Im not paying anymore than that to play a game online.

Thoughts -

Inteface could work, simply use that messenger pad for somethings/if you want a deeper interface

e.g. right off the bat get 3 rows (?) of keys

Xbox Live chat better than WoW chat (who doesn't still use Vent?) and built-in, great for Raid/group use

Would need some basic mods on/off and drag-it, but really, I'm not seeing anything too bad

d-pad, 2 analogs, many buttons, have action choices change per stance/modifiers

Would it fun?

I think it could be, tho even more focus probably on action and less stupid channel [text] chat (yay lol)

The cost tho?

I think $9.99 [or less], already paying for live, and that seems to be the defacto 'up' cost

The idea of '360 servers' is interesting tho, maybe with modified build, environment, classes for some easier usage

Who knows, maybe we'll find out down the road they're killing downranking exactly for this reason o.O

I think the melee types would be the easiest and possibly most engaging, particularly with Paladin changes and new DK

Still... it'd be a lot, and for whatever reason the Sony box allows for mouse/keyboard before MS, go figure. Maybe PS3?

theres no way to play wow without a keyboard i mean this is almost a pointless thread. sorry TCFirex777x

Again, hasnt anyone seen the simple messenger add-on?

Also side-note, hasn't anyone seen the 'play WoW with xbox360 controller on your PC?'

For the people talking about the skills and whatnot, simply make it a keyboard game, I wouldn't mind playing it on a keyboard, however anyone who has played WoW and was a hardcore raider(I stopped amidst Burning Crusade so my knowledge is limited mostly to the expansionless WoW) meaning they'd spend something around 5 hours a day at least 5 days a week simply raiding, anyone who was at that level will tell you that WoW is very mod dependant, the UI's and other addons to the game become things you NEED, and without the ongoing flow of the mods the game simply dumbs down, so if WoW on the 360 had the ability to be used with all the mods the PC WoW has, then yes I would get it for my 360,but without the mods it's not the same.

Great input comkaz, I appreciate. Let's keep the discussion up. I, myself do think it's possible to have WOW on the 360, It would have better graphics (most likely), and it would open up the WOW world to 360 users.jwgamer119

HEY! you're right. Why the heck should we pay more?! 50$ is enough. Maybe that's why the MMO thing isn't gonna catch on. Now, if there was no fee then yes I'd bite.

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I would. I've never played the P.C. version but I always wanted to. Umm... I wouldn't if there was still a monthly fee however.nicknees93

first off it never come blizzer has stated there is no plans what ever to bring world of warcraft to any consal

i would buy it if there no no mothy fee or unless they chop the fee downto about 5 bucks but come on 15 bucks monmth crazy

World of Warcraft might work if you could cue skills and spells like in the neverwinter nights games. I only played WOW for a month though, so maybe you can somehow cue in the current version.

The game would be hit if it went to either PS3 or 360 because its a classic PC game coming on to one or the best console.WWE360Man

I completely agree man.

I mean I haven't heard of any MMORPGs for the 360 yet, and I think this would be a great start.

Your thoughts?

jwgamer119

Try Final Fantasy XI and Phantasy Star Universe. Not to mention Age of Conan which is coming out.