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Will World Of Warcraft Come To Xbox?
Final Thoughts
With the acquisition of Activision-Blizzard that is set to happen somewhere in mid-2023, World of Warcraft players are once again speculating about an Xbox port for the aging MMO. An Xbox port for WoW might be for the best, considering its current downfall in player count. So, opening up to new players on a different platform could very well breathe life into the game.
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Not to mention, there’s also the latest official controller support and tons of new features, such as the directional targeting system that came along with the Dragonflight expansion pack. Having said that, is a World of Warcraft Xbox port finally at hand? Read ahead and find out!
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Will World Of Warcraft Come To Xbox?
Unfortunately, at the moment, there are no plans for an Xbox port for World of Warcraft.
In a recent interview between Twitch streamer Annie Fuchsia and game director Ion Hazzikostas, the Twitch streamer asked if Wow was coming to consoles. To that, Hazzikostas gave a definite no to the possibility of a console port for the MMO.
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Since the game’s interface was specifically designed for PCs, World of Warcraft will remain PC-exclusive for the time being. Furthermore, even if an Xbox port or any other console port does happen, they’ll have to work on it from scratch, and that won’t be easy.
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Considering that the World of Warcraft community has also heavily relied on add-ons and other third-party apps to improve the game’s function, those things won’t really be available to console players. Though Hazzikostas did mention that official controller support was made with an eye for accessibility, Thus, accessibility is still the game developers’ top priority.
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Final Thoughts
In the end, never say never, and it is entirely up to Activision Blizzard to change their minds. As a result, you shouldn’t expect an Xbox port of World of Warcraft at this time or any time soon in the future. Looking for more guides and news on Wolrd Of Warcraft? Why not check out our guides tab for some handy tips?
There Are Still No Plans to Bring World of Warcraft to Consoles
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Christian Miller
World of Warcraft Game Director Ion Hazzikostas reveals Blizzard’s stance on a console version for the game, as well as other fan requested features.
World of Warcraft players have been holding out hope for a console version of the game for as long as it’s been around, and its Game Director has answered that PlayStation or Xbox ports of Blizzard’s flagship title still remains a definitive no.
The ability pruning that Warlords of Draenor brought in 2014 was perhaps the start of any serious speculation in the community about World of Warcraft coming to consoles. Some players believed that reducing the number of abilities would pave the way for a console version of their favorite MMO, and given that several World of Warcraft competitors branched out beyond PC at the time, it was a decent theory.
With Microsoft pursuing the acquisition of Activision Blizzard, many were left wondering if this would open the doors to an Xbox port for World of Warcraft, effectively mirroring Final Fantasy 14 having its console version on PlayStation. While the idea was sound on paper, it would seem that Blizzard Entertainment plans to stay the course, and Microsoft is content to let Activision Blizzard franchises remain as they are.
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In a recent interview on the end of Shadowlands and the start of Dragonflight, conducted by Twitch streamer Annie Fuchsia, Game Director Ion Hazzikostas dispelled the rumors about World of Warcraft getting a console version by stating that the game would remain PC-only, with no plans to port it over to Xbox or PlayStation in the near future.
That being said, accessibility is still on Blizzard’s agenda, and Hazzikostas was forthright enough to mention that official controller support was something worth exploring, which would line up with the PlayStation and Xbox icons datamined during Dragonflight‘s beta.
Beyond the question of a console version for World of Warcraft, the interview also explored the success of Shadowlands Season 4. In a break from the standard end-of-expansion drought, Shadowlands brought forth a rather brilliant idea. Instead of letting the players grow tired of raiding Sepulcher of the First Ones for over eight months or more, it brought back the previous raids from Shadowlands into a weekly rotation cycle. Ion Hazzikostas strongly implied that Dragonflight would pursue something similar with its own tier progression.
Moreover, Hazzikostas confirmed that an oft-requested World of Warcraft feature, the ability to save and load character creation options, was being looked into by the developers.
Conversely, despite a dye system being the pipe dream for most World of Warcraft players, Ion confirmed that implementing customization like that wouldn’t work well from a technical and artistic perspective.
With World of Warcraft: Dragonflight launching in just three days from now, the developers are looking forward to hearing feedback from players regarding the new auction house, user interface, backpack, and other updated systems. Though there are some aspects of the game Blizzard intends to keep addon-only, the team wants the default UI to be more than capable of standing on its own. Even if the game might not come to consoles, it will aspire to be modern on PC.
World of Warcraft is available now on PC. Dragonflight launches on November 28.
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as my main gaming platform became the Xbox One X — people’s binoculars on DTF
Discussions of the next generation of consoles are raging on the net, and in two days the first buyers will receive the Xbox Series X.
But I propose to digress a little and talk about its predecessor, and I also want to share my own story.
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Retrospective Preface
The eighth generation of home gaming systems was not the most successful for Microsoft. While the PlayStation 4 was already on sale, the competitor did nothing but spoil the reputation of the console that had not yet been released. Controversial statements about DRM and mandatory Internet connection, the emphasis on TV and services instead of games, Kinect as the main advantage — all this, even before the start of sales, seriously reduced the number of people who wanted to buy an Xbox One. Moreover, the console, which appeared on the market with a noticeable delay, cost as much as $ 100 more than a more productive solution from Sony!
Don Mattrick was enthusiastic about how Xbox One users can watch movies and TV shows through the gaming system…
As a result, the reputation of a weak and generally not very necessary console was fixed on the Xbox One, since the vast majority of games on it worked worse than on the PlayStation 4, and worthy exclusive games were clearly not enough to lure players to the «green» camp.
The gaming division was in dire straits, and Satya Nadella, who runs Microsoft, was seriously considering abandoning the Xbox altogether.
Phil Spencer, who was appointed head of Xbox in 2014, had to correct the situation. Many controversial decisions were revised, Kinect sunk into oblivion, and in 2016 on the E3 stage, Phil presents the Xbox One S, an updated version of the console, which corrected some of the technical shortcomings of the original version , which made it possible to achieve performance similar to the competitive platform. Moreover, unexpectedly for everyone, Project Scorpio was also presented — a seriously redesigned version of the Xbox with unprecedented performance for consoles of that time.
As we all know, Project Scorpio is the code name for the future Xbox One X.
A year later, in November 2017, the brand new Xbox One X hit the stores. Interestingly, just a month earlier, Phil Spencer was promoted to executive vice president and received almost complete freedom of action, reporting only personally to Satya Nadella.
Another series of high-profile announcements followed, including GamePass — a kind of Netflix from the world of games. The subscription service became available in 2018 and quickly became one of the key features of the Xbox. Since then, Microsoft’s gaming division has acquired many studios, released a number of great games, and gradually began to regain its position in the market. It was the Xbox One X that eventually became my primary gaming platform.
From «boyars» to «consolers», or how I came to buy One X
I’ve never had the best relationship with consoles. Apart from Dendy, as a child I never owned «prefixes», it just so happened. Of course, in the distant days of gaming parlors, like many of my peers, I enthusiastically played on the PlayStation One, once again persuading my grandmother to give me the required amount and wait an hour in the nearest park. At one time I even had a Memory Stick to save my progress in games and not start every time from the beginning.
Sometimes I managed to play with friends, and one day my father brought home a PlayStation 2, borrowing it from someone at work. My happiness knew no bounds, but it did not last too long — the console had to be returned.
But I got acquainted with the PC quite early, back in the late 90s, and the home computer became my main gaming platform. Doom, Duke Nukem, Turok, X-Com, SimCity — the list is endless. Taking into account the cost of hardware, I not only always played games that were already outdated by modern standards, but since the age of 10 I have been able to replace components on my own, I knew which contacts to close on the motherboard to reboot and how to use the master-slave jumper on IDE hard disks, and could also solve almost any problems with the software.
The Xbox 360 Elite is the seventh generation flagship gaming system and my first modern console.
Years later, somewhere in 2008 or 2009, when my next PC was hopelessly outdated and did not «pull» the conditional Crysis, but I really wanted to play current games, it was decided to go broke on the «prefix».
No matter how ridiculous it may sound today, but at that moment the main criterion for me was not teraflops, exclusives or services, but the banal opportunity to «pirate». Please understand: now, 12 years later, I am sincerely against illegal obtaining of content, but at that time the question was an edge — either torrents or nothing. There was simply nothing to buy licensed discs or pay for subscriptions.
The choice fell on the Xbox 360 Elite, then only appeared on the «gray» market. These consoles were relatively easy to «flash», although this required the replacement of the native drive in order to be able to read «blanks» with games. There were, of course, the so-called Free Boot versions of the firmware with full access to the file system and the ability to run games directly from a flash drive, but this was not my option. On conditional «peas» the consoles were sold already stitched, so it was not difficult to purchase such a device.
Most of my «disk versions» looked something like this.
Thanks to the presence of a burner and unlimited ADSL Internet, in a couple of years I managed to go through many well-known titles and fall in love with entire series of games. Of course, there was no question of any multiplayer on the hacked console, but I liked the same Halo, Fable and other games without it. After a decade of PC gaming experience consisting mostly of strategy games, first-person shooters, and various MMOs, «console gaming» seemed completely different. Third-person action, arcade racing, fighting games, and platformers all played well on a gamepad, but didn’t feel very good on a keyboard and mouse.
At the end of 2012, I had the opportunity to build a «top» PC, which was needed not only for games, but also in this role was head and shoulders above the Xbox 360 at the end of the generation. The console went to Avito, but I saved one of the gamepads, since Microsoft took care of their full compatibility with Windows. By that time, a decent Internet and Steam had already appeared, so I plunged headlong into PC gaming and became a full-fledged «boyar».
I dug up a photo of the same PC during assembly and testing in December 2012.
As the years went by, I played countless games, spent thousands of hours in «session games» and upgraded some components of my PC several times, although the basics remained unchanged. Thanks to the fact that in late 2012 I built a PC on the latest and most powerful platform from Intel at that time, my i7 3770K and 16 gigabytes of DDR3 more than lasted for the next six years.
But in 2018, largely out of work necessity, I switched to a Mac. Apple’s new professional laptop in its highest configuration far outperformed my PC in workloads, not to mention the convenience of the OS and the ecosystem as a whole. In addition, work and other interests did not leave time for former hobbies, and therefore gradually I began to abandon games, including the old computer less and less.
Not the most impressive statistic, I think, but I played a lot, and there were GOG, Origin, BattleNet and Uplay.
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Realizing that I didn’t really need a PC anymore, I gave it to a friend, and I stopped playing anything myself. Nevertheless, I did not lose interest in games, so I followed the news of the gaming industry and read reviews of various new products with interest. He also knew a lot about current game consoles, and also carefully studied the «intermediate» generation, which included One X and PS4 Pro, since they, albeit with reservations, allowed playing in 4K, unlike my old video card.
In 2019, some fairly global changes took place in my life, and there was also much more time, and, to be honest, free finances. Since I work exclusively on a laptop, during the next redecoration, the idea came to me to completely get rid of the table and hang a TV «full wall» in order to comfortably watch movies and TV shows. At the same time, it was decided to buy a game console, it only remained to decide which one.
The main calibers of the «console wars» of the outgoing generation.
We had to choose from two current «set-top boxes» — Xbox One X and PlayStation 4 Pro. It’s no secret that in Russia in recent years the vast majority of players have preferred PS4, but for me everything was not so obvious, also because most of my friends and former teammates in online battles prefer exclusively PC.
After a fairly long study of various reviews, comparisons and other materials on the network, my choice fell on the Xbox One X. Among the main selection criteria were the following:
- Best Performance
- Better build quality and no noise
- Familiar from the days of the Xbox 360 gamepad
- Save big on games with subscriptions
For me, as a person who completely missed the whole console generation, and many of the novelties of recent years, in principle, the number of exclusive games was not so relevant. But the opportunity to get a couple of hundred games at once thanks to a bundle of Xbox Game Pass and EA Access (which at that time was not yet available on the PlayStation) turned out to be decisive, so I went to the store for the Xbox One X.
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When I went to the store to pick up a box of a new console, the first thing I did was grab a couple of cards with GamePass Ultimate and a year’s EA Access. In addition, apparently succumbing to the desire to get the most out of the new gaming experience, I ordered the Elite Gamepad, though still the first revision. All this goodness had to lie in packed boxes for some time while waiting for the completion of repairs, furniture assembly and TV installation, but after a while I finally managed to connect everything and finally start the Xbox One X.
It didn’t work out to buy a TV “through the wall”, the prices were too high, but the 65-inch QLED finally took its place in front of the sofa.
I placed all the equipment in a special cabinet, and I ran only one translucent cable to the TV, so it came out pretty neat. After a bulky PC with a bunch of wires, sometimes you really forget that there is a console somewhere at all — you press the button on the gamepad and immediately into the game.
I was pleasantly surprised by the speed of the console and its quietness, and the image on the new TV was definitely pleasing to the eye. After 1080p on a medium-sized monitor on an old PC, playing on a large 4K display was really exciting.
Xbox One X fits perfectly into the interior. All wires, router and surge protector are hidden inside.
First of all, no matter how predictable, I took up the games from Microsoft. Many titles have been familiar to me since the days of the Xbox 360, so it was especially great to go through the entire Halo series, the last games of which on the previous console for me were Reach and Wars, replay the remaster of the first Gears of War, then immediately jump to 4, oh, and , of course, to drive in Forza Horizon 4. I don’t see the point in listing everything, but it was GamePass that gave me the opportunity to go through a huge number of games I missed, which “hardcore” gamers probably passed years ago, which, of course, did not make these games worse.
In general, it seems to me that if games can «get old», then only when changing generations, but not during the life cycle of one console.
In addition to the gameplay itself, here is a short list of the console’s «features» that I liked the most: subscription activation codes;
After years of playing on the PC, the simplicity of the console is truly captivating. The complete control, variety, and flexibility of computers has its advantages, but it’s more a matter of habit and personal preference.
My complete set. And yes, I keep the boxes until I get rid of the devices themselves, since the place allows.
It’s funny that in these one and a half years of using the console, I bought only three disc versions of the game, and all three could eventually be played by subscription: Red Dead Redemption 2 was on GamePass for six months, Ace Combat 7 is available there directly now, and Jedi Fallen Order will be available November 10 via EA Play as part of GamePass Ultimate.
I think the «elite» gamepad deserves special mention. Yes, in the current realities, this is not the most necessary expensive thing, but the ability to change the height of the sticks (and the higher the stick, the smoother and more accurate the control), as well as the presence of rear «petals» really give some advantage in games.
I still rarely play online games, mainly due to lack of time and company, but in the same R6: Siege and Warzone, the ability to use the buttons without removing your finger from the stick has already helped me out a couple of times.
Four «petals» duplicate the ABXY buttons, and the ability to set the short stroke of the triggers allows you to press them faster in a single fire mode.
In general, the Xbox One X left only positive impressions, but after a long period of use, some things still start to get a little annoying. They may not be relevant to everyone, and perhaps generally a matter of taste, but here is my personal list of disadvantages:
- Not the best interface: the main screen is heavily overloaded, tiles are not always informative, and customization is rather limited;
- There is no possibility to connect a wireless Bluetooth headset, I had to buy a wired one with a jack;
- Extremely sluggish applications, be it settings or some kind of service — perhaps this is a payment for the «gaming» orientation of the device (Mattrick knew something!), but it is very strange that the simplest application opens longer than the latest AAA release;
- A follow-on issue with game-specific companion apps: you play Halo MCC, find bonus material, and you are automatically redirected to the Halo Channel app to watch a cutscene, and the app can open for a couple of minutes, which is very annoying and hinders immersion;
- The same goes for «launchers» — I always thought that, unlike on PC, I would never have to deal with Uplay again until I was forced to install Ubisoft Connect;
- Xbox Store with prices in dollars — and it’s not even so much about the absence of a regional price, although, of course, this is upsetting, but about the display of the price tag itself: well, I don’t want to calculate the final cost every time with our galloping ruble, and even pay a commission for the conversion
- Inability to set auto-renewal subscriptions and forget — Microsoft allows you to link your bank card for purchases in the Store, but does not allow you to purchase subscriptions directly in our region, only through retailers;
- An extremely poor choice of strategies, although the Windows OS (albeit modified) and system support for the keyboard and mouse, it seems to me, quite allow the release of many of them on the Xbox.
Separately, I would like to say about the inability to install custom modifications (with rare exceptions like some Bethesda games). I’m a longtime sci-fi fan, and it just so happens that a lot of the projects I’m really interested in are mods or strategy/turn-based tactics. BSG Deadlock, Battletech, «X» and other games are not available on consoles, as well as mods for Empire at War, Sins of a Solar Empire and Stellaris. I have to run them on my macbook using Boot Camp…
Halo Wars 2 is a rare example of a strategy game designed primarily for consoles.
Even with all of the above shortcomings, the Xbox One X does a great job of running games. The ability to play in 4K on a device that costs no more than a mid-range graphics card, getting into the game in a matter of minutes without having to waste time on unnecessary actions is an undeniable plus over the PC that I spent many years behind. Yes, you have to make some compromises, and yes, the technical characteristics of the consoles do not allow you to achieve image quality comparable to the top gaming computers, but for most «casual» gamers, which for some time now I can include myself, the Xbox allows you to immerse yourself in virtual worlds at minimal cost, without requiring any additional knowledge or skills.
In the next generation of consoles, I again chose «X», only this time Series. I will try to tell about my impressions of the new device, which will fall into my hands in a couple of days, in the next article.
This text is not intended to somehow advertise the Xbox, and I deliberately avoided direct comparisons with a competing platform.
My desire was to share my own experience and tell my story. I hope I succeeded.
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