It's odd that I keep seeing news of Blizzard wanting to bring WoW to consoles

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If that was the case they would need to massively cut down on button bloat.

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Isn’t FF14 on console ? And the game has god awful complex rotations. I thought WoW had a button bloat problem until I try Samurai.

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It can already be played with a controller.

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where do you keep seeing this news?

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Yeah, FF14 was made for a console and the buttons are ridiculous compared to WoW. I play this game to relax with some nice 2 button rotations. It would play fine a control.

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I’ve seen articles quite often about it on gaming websites and such.

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I wouldn’t play it tbh.

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Laughs in Reaper

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How does healing work on a controller when you need to both target allies with friendly spells and also enemies with cc/interrupts/damage seamlessly?

I’m not saying you can’t, I just have a hard time picturing how it would work.

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FF14 has way less buttons to press and doesn’t rely on add-ons/macros to do their rotation.

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Homie, wow players couldn’t handle Transpose Lines or Infinite Paradox.

Also, you need addons for BM?

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I have always wondered why consoles are still a thing short of something really gimmicky like Nintendo does.

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Brand loyalty is a heckuva drug.

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Unless those articles are relying on quotes are from senior Blizzard employees like Holly Longdale, it’s probably just speculation.

Edit: and it does seem that Holly Longdale did make a “nothing’s impossible” statement about WoW on consoles, but I wouldn’t point to that as definitive proof of WoW coming to console either.

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Correction, you choose to play WoW in a less than optimal way. The same could be said for FF14, you can choose to only press 2 buttons if you want. When playing to the highest level WoW certainly has more buttons to press.

But I am not sure if we can compare to FF, in WoW you can also choose to take more passive talents to reduce your buttons to a very low number that would be better suited to controllers, the problem with that is that you are choosing to reduce player power on purpose, and with that you can only go so far before you start hitting a wall.

However, if you use modifier keys with a controller, 4 shoulder buttons, 4 thumb buttons and a 4 way D-pad, you can get up to as many as 48 buttons with ease.

And if you push it further you can technically get as many as 96 buttons if you really want.

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Healing would have to be made simplier and easier.

Pc ff14 players say healing is too easy but it has to be due to consoles.

Healing as it is now in WoW wouldn’t work on consoles

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Can someone link me all of these interviews? I’m interested to read what they’re thinking.

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https://www.eurogamer.net/could-world-of-warcraft-on-console-finally-be-happening

I saw this yesterday. Can’t wait.

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Thanks for the link, it’s interesting to see what they’re talking about these days.

I also posted your link in another thread talking about this, attributed to you, so others could read it too.

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Just allow me to turn off cross play, and dont dumb down the game.

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