Shareholders make gambles all the time.
That’s just part of investment.
I’m sure many have made the gamble of short-term loss for long term gains with expanding PC games to console in the past — What matters for WoW is the cost in juggling its complexity & the work load it’d require to execute the ordeal entirely.
When it comes down to it, in simple terms it’s:
Time
Assets
Money
Sustainability
and appeal
By appeal, I mean how the projected fruits to bear from such work would be & continue to work onward for the future.
… However, if any of the above is jeopardised it makes a mess of the whole situation in which case like you said → It’s probably not going to happen.
Hm. They wouldn’t need to redesign everything, they’d just have to absorb the means to acquire mods into the game itself in a similar way to how you can download (some) Skyrim mods on Xbox, though that would be trickier when it comes to Weakauras specifically because you’d be able to likely obtain the main add-on but each individual weakaura would be harder to pull in while something like DBM would be simpler.
The ease-of-access for mods would obviously be one of the main point against console ports, as well as communication.
You can’t make a game playable on console and exclude people from all content.
Not without seriously dumbing the game down so that it would be able to be played on console. They already did that once and it almost killed the game. If they dumbed it down to console levels the game would die flat out.
Again you can’t provide a game and exclude people from the high end based on console.
I can keep up my DoTs up on Aff without using Focus macros and managed parses from 80-100 percentile as Affliction over several expansions… You don’t need focus macros to play Aff effectively.
Mouseover functionality is one thing I will concede that you would be missing, though you don’t need macros for them anymore since it can be enabled for spells by default since Dragonflight launched, so being able to play any spec currently with 30 keybinds still stands.
I’m ok with the game being on console as long as they put a little symbol next to people’s names in the group finder indicating they’re playing on a controller.
I don’t want wow on consoles. If they ever make wow from ground up it wont be the same game, probably won’t have same success and I probably won’t play it.
Were you not here for the mass exodus of players from WoD when the game was dumbed down and catering to bad players the most?
The great pruning almost killed the game.
The majority of players were not happy hence why the unpruning happened.
It’s why they reverted back to big talent trees instead of the basic 6
Talent choices with 3 options for each.
The difference is the great pruning almsot didnkill the game. I’d youndumbed the game down to allow controller play in betting a lot of players would quit.
The game was dumbed down in Cataclysm, not WoD. Every class had the same abilities and PVE had nothing but tank and spank crap. WoD had the removal of abilities, but each class was different. Also, PVE actually had stuff for people to do.
It is a limited way of thinking when you think more buttons is the only way to apply challenge to something. It is also limited to think the ratio from quitters vs new players would be bad for the game.
I’m all for challenges, but I reached 3k this season by pressing little more than 6 or 7 abilities.
You either talk about ability pruning or talents. Pick one, my boy.
WoD is the worst expansion because everybody saw through their lazy “let’s get this dumb idea out of the drawer so we can invest more time on making Legion great”.
It has nothing to do with PVE. I have never had to pay as much attention to fights as I did in WoD’s glory active mitigation days.
“I am this, therefore all people are this.”
Sure I pugged. I don’t have a closed group. Not the point.
Sure, 3k isn’t much. Again, not the point.
Do you have anything to say about the point itself?
The amount of people that don’t realize you can use a keyboard and mouse on consoles is rather disturbing lol. Game just has to be programmed to use them.
Biggest hurdle are the mods, because of course it is lol.
