Play WoW with the Xbox 360 controller
by James Ransom-Wiley 
{ Mar 27th 2006 at 2:55PM }
David Nikdel (a.k.a. Violent Playground's Ogapo, a Level 60 Gnome Warlock) has developed a World of Warcraft UI mod that makes it possible to use the PC-compatible (wired) Xbox 360 controller. The mod utilizes a combo editor, so that users can store and execute spells using 1 to 4 button combinations. So does Nikdel's mod suggest WoW is possible on the Xbox 360? Perhaps. But don't count on Blizzard changing its no port policy.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Fan @ Mar 27th 2006 3:02PM
It wont port because Microsoft wants to own everything like they want to own the internet standards. Locking people into theyre tech is Microsofts buisness model number 1. No actually is any big megacorps dream buisiness model because its proven the most lucerative. So GODBLESS COMPETITION.
With Sony and Nintendo opening up theire networks Microsoft will probobly let comapnies run theire own servers!
Thanks
PS. Yeah i know my spelling sucks. If you dont like it bring the spellcheck button back.
Josh @ Mar 27th 2006 3:15PM
GOd Bless Xbox Live,
Have you played on Live compared to the POS that is out there for Sony(PS@) right now? Sony's company run servers were ridiculous at least when I was on someones PS2 last yr, slow, full of cheating and just generaly buggy.
I love competition but your almost saying that no one should have an exclusive title.
Evil Inside @ Mar 27th 2006 3:17PM
If I'm not mistaken, Microsoft has already opened the Xbox Live platform to developers.
They also allow publishers more control over their games. This was what was keeping EA from supporting Xbox Live for so long.
Fan @ Mar 27th 2006 3:25PM
"Have you played on Live compared to the POS that is out there for Sony(PS@) right now?"
No i haven tried online for any console. I only play online on PCs and its the best experience hands down. There this open thing called the internet were i can download trailers and demos and even full length feature films. WOW Godbless the internet.
"I love competition but your almost saying that no one should have an exclusive title."
Now that would be heaven. Imagine a world without the plauge that is exclusives. That way we could just buy the console we want instead of having to buy 3 consoles to play that one game. Imagine a world were big corps would not be able to take over small development firms and force them to swear alligence. I have a dream..
Owns @ Mar 27th 2006 3:31PM
Bah...who needs WOW when you got Oblivion?
Riley @ Mar 27th 2006 3:34PM
How would FFXI be any different from WoW? On the backend architecture I mean - obviously XBL is not hosting FFXI servers so there has to be some options there to go through XBL in order to play a MMO on a 3rd party server.
BrokenDesign @ Mar 27th 2006 3:43PM
I'm not so sure about that Blizzard no ports policy thing. Let us not forget Starcraft 64.
nooner_uno @ Mar 27th 2006 3:56PM
I agree #5. But where is the mod for using Oblivion PC w/ an Xbox 360 controller? I would kill for that. (Yes, I like mouse/kb for an FPS, but Oblivion is hardly an FPS)
Loque @ Mar 27th 2006 3:57PM
Too bad I've been using an xbox 360 controller to play FFXI for the longest time now...
D dogg @ Mar 27th 2006 3:58PM
"That way we could just buy the console we want instead of having to buy 3 consoles to play that one game."
"I only play online on PCs and its the best experience hands down."
You have the console you dream of... it's called a PC. Don't you realize console makers make money off the software, NOT the hardware?! WTF would be the sense of making many different hardware configurations if they played all the same content?!
I don't even want to explain this to you if you fail to see it. OMG, I seriously didn't think informed [nerd, dork, geek, hardcore, whatever you classify youself as] gamers would fail to see this point... I really didn't. Wow... just, WOW!
D dogg @ Mar 27th 2006 4:07PM
By the way, remember the saying... "He who owns the content wins". Who the hell is going to win if everyone owns the content?!
If PC's only played games, you think you'd have a million and one PC manufacturers creating PC's and parts?! I'm still amazed you posted your bias and then, turned around, and posted your ignorance.
Fan @ Mar 27th 2006 4:12PM
Of course i know console makers make money of software, at least this gen. Next-gen will have many different income models like dls, hardware trojaning and the ever elusive halo effect(like ms media center pcs and HDTVs) to name a few.
BUT that doesnt mean there has to be exclusives ffs. Do you think every game is exclusive or something? What about all of the mulit platform launches? Big comapnies pay off developers to remain exclusive or delay theyre other releases. Now if everyone could just agree on a single best set up standard for a gaming box. It would rox for us.
Also the hardware is the very thing that is killing of PC gaming for me. Jest too expensive =(
Fan @ Mar 27th 2006 4:16PM
"By the way, remember the saying... "He who owns the content wins". Who the hell is going to win if everyone owns the content?!"
I belive we, the consumers, would win if everyone owns the content. Also the RIGHTFULL owners of the content, THE DEVELOPERS, would win and not some hardware manufacturing leech.
Thanks
cap-n-crunch @ Mar 27th 2006 5:28PM
Since Obilivion came out, I quit my lvl 15 gnome warlock for my lvl 5 witchhunter high elf. The begining of obivion offers fun and adventure, with a great battle engine. WOW at lower levels just feels like work. PVP must be great at higher levels cause of the amount of tediuos work it puts you through.
Tank8131 @ Mar 27th 2006 5:58PM
Seeing as how this story is NOT about porting WoW to 360 at all I feel the need to comment on what it IS about.
Thank god...i bought a 360 for WoW about 3 months ago and didn't realize the game didn't support gamepads. However...I ran into several problems during the install. I had to uninstall some runtime thing in oreder to unistall something else to install Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 in order to install the mod. When it tried to run the program however it came up with an error. I've tried several different things and still no luck...If anyone get's this to actually work let me know what you did.