Gamepad (xbox controller) support

Do it right or not at all.

Are you sure about that?

i vote not at all because then the game is one step away from going mobile, and we dont want that… however it would be interesting if it had touch screen support (there was an old video from years ago showing wc3 working on touch screen, but idk if it was any good or even real)

I wonder if this would ever be a popular way to play competitively lol

Have you played Warcraft 2 The Dark Saga on PS1? If you did, you would realize how stupid this thread is.

You mean stupid like diablo being ported to console when pc has a horrid mouse, spell, movement design. Sounds pretty narrow minded.

Since blizzard has nothing left but to rehash old games this will also be ported to console.

And develop the upcoming World of Warcraft patches, and run Overwatch (balancing, map/character/even development, eSports), and work on their other unannounced Diablo projects, and keep up on Heroes of the Storm, and whatever support they’re still doing for Starcraft 2 (having received another gameplay update recently too).

Plus all the work they’re putting into Reforged, which I hope does well enough for the Classic Games team to go on and do a Diablo 1/2 combination remaster.

You realize that we’re talking about completely different genre’s here.

Diablo is a real time roguelike

Warcraft 3 is a Real Time Strategy

Real Time Strategy games should NEVER involve the use of a gamepad, it doesn’t work. Mouse and Keyboard are vital for such games. How the hell are you going to group/hotkey with a controller? It’s impossible, there aren’t enough buttons.

Think logically…

Halo Wars handled it well enough.

ALL UNITS.

Not really, it was a console exclusive at the time… so people just accepted it.

It handled being a console RTS so poorly it got a sequel.

Bubsy recieved countless sequals… nobody liked them…

That is a very base minded thing to say. Ever play halo wars (2) or ancestors legacy? They did an amazing job getting controllers to work with it. Command and Conquer did a reasonable job too and even had some mods to help with this. You can even see yodesla(streamer) playing this. Failures of the past are not the limits and placing limits on a 20 year old game is not very rational.

Actually Halo Wars controls were very good and was even better than it’s predecessor Halo Wars 2. The issue with Halo Wars 1 was it never had balance and was never a great basis for rts gaming, something that blizzard NEVER overlooked and continued to balance the game for years even before reforged was ever thought up.

Clearly a lot of work.

This must be an easy post to make after this much time has passed.

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