They stated this was for accessibility options and not for console reasons.
Doesn’t look like a controller, looks like someone slapped an animation of one and used keybinds.
Either way a consol port wouldn’t work. It would require a complete rebuild from the ground up to make it compatible and blizz won’t do that if they wanna keep what remains of the playerbase. Because to rebuild it would shut the game off for quite a long time and run the major risk of players losing stuff in the transition.
How’s having less options for the user to tailor their experience between graphics and framerate (or sometimes both) an advantage…? I mean it only takes a minute at most to set them.
Honestly, if consoles does have graphical settings that is on the same level as PC’s, that would be an amazing upgrade. So i can turn everything down to med low and get a consistent framerate on them for once. 
Whatever steps required whether a rebuild or rework, it could still work. The fact that they have controller support built in and the fact that the new generation consoles (even the last ones in large part) are build on PC architecture, making ports a LOT more feasible.
Doesn’t mean stuff wouldn’t be lost in the transition and I highly doubt anyone will stay if they lost stuff due to some consol port.
Consol port may work for other mmos like ff and eso but it really won’t work here. It’s also why swtor doesn’t have one.
Same reason people prefer games on console. They enjoy the convenience of plug/play.
It can take more than a minute to find that sweet spot when you’re hit with 12 slider bars trying to fine-tune to get that optimal frame rate you’re after.
On FFXIV, I know that I want higher than HD resolution and as close to 60 fps as I can get, so I select the middle option so I get the best of both worlds.
Things do get lost in translation all the time. That’s what updates/patches are for, to correct that.
I don’t see anything that significant being lost. It would require testing.
I know many people do not want a port because they like the feeling of exclusivity. I really don’t give a crap about that. To keep the game alive, I’m fine looking outside the box.
Nothing significant you say.
What about mounts, pets, mogs, toons. Anything and everything is significant.
Its not a matter of exclusivity.
People don’t want a wow port because of the problems that would arise. This isn’t some elitists thing so don’t try to turn it into one.
Money?
I have 40-50 key binds. You gonna give me a keyboard to hook up to a console?
The guy literally has multiple videos about using controllers and how to set them up.
But you are correct on it likely being a pain to get working on proprietary console OS’s, the console’s themselves could likely handle it just fine, they’re basically mid range computers at this point.
Needing to shut down the game is also unlikely though.
Likely the biggest hurdle would be getting console manufacturers on board with cross play. SE had a lot of clout with Sony when they released cross play mmorpgs.
You can hook any standard keyboard up to a console.
Though a controller provides easy access to 48+ binds.
id like to know their answer as well.
i would assume its because they dont have time. they cant even keep up with current stuff.
Don’t get me wrong I think its fine for ff and eso to cross play because they were designed from the start to be such.
Wow on the other hand was designed to be pc only and frankly I’m ok with that. When I play consol its not to mmo, its to single player game.
But for pc I have both options and due to the superior tech pcs have it just works.
A bit confused sorry. My FF14 account sits on both PC and console and the achievements, mogs, mounts etc all carry over. I doubt these would be impacted?
What superior tech?
A PS5 has better tech in it then most peoples pcs according to Steam survey.
It’s got a Console style processor, and an RDNA2 GPU, it’s a pc in all but software, and people have put Linux on consoles and used them like pcs.
It’s in regards to a port for wow, not ff a game that was designed from the start to be cross play.
That honestly sounds like a good reason to own an old console like the PS2. Because Consoles these days are barely convenient. I don’t remember having to download games and update them before i can play them on my PS2, but with the newer consoles, you pretty much have too. At least with the PC, you do have routes to stop or mitigate that, so it’s more convenient in that aspect.
Okay fine, it takes 2 minutes then.
Even then, is it really troublesome?.. I mean all you have to do is turn on the FPS overlay, and if the FPS meets to your standards, there ya go. Sweetspot found. Then you just set it and forget it.
Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaybe once in a blue moon you turn it down or up, depending on your preferences, maybe. 
For me personally, 60 to 75 fps (depending on the game, old games hate higher fps but can be modded to accept 60 at max) is my target. While WoW does love to dip under then 60fps, if i feel that i needed that framerate boost while still retaining the nice visuals, i have that option to fine tune my settings. I don’t see how this is a bad thing to do it.
If you don’t want to do that, then that’s what graphical presets are for. 
I don’t know which middle option you’re talking about if your talking about the console version. It’s been a while since i’ve played consoles. One game i’ve played was AC4 on Xbox 360, and the FPS sanked more times then i sink ships in that game whenever i get into land battles on the enemy’s ships. Having the ability to pause, go to the graphical settings and fine tune my game right there and then to be consistant 30fps or maybe 60fps, would be amazing. And it shows oh why PC is really superior in this aspect. You get to choose. Not just software options… but hardware options too. Which is why i’m rocking 64GB DDR4 3200mhz memory ram! 
On PC, yes, FF14 does have Graphical presets as well allows you to fine tune your settings if you wish, like 99.9% of PC games. If anything, FF14 on PC has a ton of options to pick from the options menu. So many options. It’s like being in a candy store for geeks. Don’t know where to begin, but i do know i’m gonna love it. 
Back on the topic of consoles, while the consoles do have ray tracing, i would imagine the the options would be “Would you like the game run at 60fps with no ray tracing, or 30fps with ray tracing?”…I mean sure, consoles having options like that is better then no options at all. It’s a start. Maybe someday, Consoles can allow you to have Ray Tracing and 60fps on 4K like the PC… if they allow you to swap the parts out like a PC.
I wouldn’t care unless they dumbed the game down even more to accommodate console controls, or got in the way of further depruning.
I wouldn’t put much stock into steam surveys personally.
That said yes pcs have superior tech. They’re designed to be the best of the three systems.
They’re not “designed” to be anything.
Each PC is different.
and you don’t want to put stock in steam surveys? Then how about every time they slightly up the wow system requirements, soo much complaining that their pc no longer meet it.
A lot of people can’t afford a pc that even matches a ps4