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Posted: Jan 15th 2007 11:31AM (Unverified) said

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Though they may talk about bringing out another MMO, Blizzard is probably also aware that doing so would probably come at the expense of their existing MMO.

If Blizzard did World of Diablo or World of StarCraft, the chances are pretty good that a lot of their populations would come from... World of WarCraft, not from some other untapped parts of the market or other MMOs.

Then again, they could just bundle the two together and charge $20/month and see even more profits.
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Posted: Jan 15th 2007 11:32AM (Unverified) said

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World Of Starcraft, FTW!
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Posted: Jan 15th 2007 11:16AM (Unverified) said

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Don't forget, all the WoW info you need, including reports from the BC Launch, is over at wowinsider.com.
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Posted: Jan 15th 2007 11:15AM Crono141 said

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And how hard would it be to talk to nintendo about the possibility of porting their behemoth MMO to Wii, and requesting support for a WiiKeyboard?

Seriously. When it comes to big projects like that, Nintendo has been known to be quite accomidating.
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Posted: Jan 15th 2007 11:16AM itchyeyes said

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I agree with LeCraft. As good as WoW is, it's not meant for a console. The control scheme would be absolutely awful. There are just too many actions to efficiently activate one with a control pad.

The console scene really needs to see a good MMO. However it needs to be one built, from the ground up, for consoles. The grinding, the complexity, the massively long play times, it all needs to go. A console MMO needs to be accessible. PC MMO conventions just aren't going to work in that environment.
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Posted: Jan 15th 2007 11:23AM (Unverified) said

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Maybe enough people will be kept busy by this to finally allow me to get a Wii...
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Posted: Jan 15th 2007 11:29AM (Unverified) said

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I'm looking forward to the expansion. WoW has been boring to me for a long time and being able to level up again as well as play a new race with new quests and such will be pretty awesome. One thing we know for sure is that the servers are going to die...and often. Heh, heh.

If Blizz ported WoW to the Wii, I would support it. Being able to play WoW on the big TV would be worth picking it up. Not only that, but I'm sure Nintendo would make drivers for a USB harddrive and add keyboard support if developers were going to take advantage of those functions. I played FFXI on the PS2 for a long time and would do it again for WoW. Demand is there, Blizz should capitalize on that, in my opinion.
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Posted: Jan 15th 2007 11:35AM WiNGSPANTT from TopTierTacticsco said

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Yeah they already did a console "MMO" it was called Phantasy Star Online for Dreamcast, and it did pretty damn well considering. You need something that doesn't require a lot of patching (due to nature of consoles), so it would have to be damn well balanced to start. I think their best bet is to make Guild Wars chapter 1 into a console version, since realistically the game's been tested for some time now, just freeze it, pack it, and ship it.

As for other Blizz MMOs... Diablo or Starcraft? I'm sure they have a lot of leftover models/art from GHOST lol
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Posted: Jan 15th 2007 11:40AM (Unverified) said

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WoW on Wii: Won't work because it needs high resolution HDTV for the player to be able to see all the lines of text the game requires. Chat log, combat log, all the custom UI's people use... Just think about how hard it is to read websites on Wii without using the zoom function.
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Posted: Jan 15th 2007 2:25PM The Deuce said

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#5:
"If Blizz ported WoW to the Wii, I would support it. Being able to play WoW on the big TV would be worth picking it up."

Actually, you can do that now, if your TV has a VGA port in back. The only problem is that the edges of your picture are cut off on most TVs, which makes parts of your interface go partly offscreen (I used to maintain a mod that addressed this by letting you move everything in your interface around, but gave up after quitting the game, and being screwed over by the changes every patch). It would be nice if Blizz had a "TV option", which would simply move the GUI edge anchors in a few pixels.
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Posted: Jan 15th 2007 11:50AM (Unverified) said

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as far as murphys law... theres already been tons of issues in game. nothing sucks more than running a 20 man raid and seeing all 4 of your tanks simultaneously get disconnected.
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Posted: Jan 15th 2007 11:56AM flit said

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Anyway, it's a dumb idea for other reasons. Like it's so hard to find a $200 computer that can run wow anyway. I'm excited for the expansion, and can't wait for the next expansion, which i'm sure will finally introduce new classes (we can hope).
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Posted: Jan 16th 2007 2:19AM (Unverified) said

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Yeah, because WOW would look so amazing in 852x480 (if you buy the component cables). Remember that whole we're not HD part of the WII, I'm afraid it's going to seriously bite Nintento in the butt.

Why is everyone so hell bent on shoehorning everything into the WII.. it does what it does well, but unfortunately it doesn't do much very well unless Nintendo makes it.

Yes I own a wii, yes I love my wii (snicker) but I wouldn't want to play a full featured MMO on a standard def gamecube on steroids on a controller not made for such games.
/endrant
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Posted: Jan 15th 2007 12:57PM (Unverified) said

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As a noob to WoW (yesterday lol), I would like for their to be a WoW Console version!

To be honest, nothing sux more than sitting at a desk playing WoW.....I want to be on my sofa, on a big TV! lmao

It WILL happen, it just depends on when! ;)
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Posted: Jan 15th 2007 1:29PM (Unverified) said

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Everquest: Online Adventures for the PS2 was fun.
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Posted: Jan 15th 2007 1:35PM JonahFalcon said

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I just got a copy from Blizzard this morning after I'd sworn off WoW months ago. Gah.
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Posted: Jan 16th 2007 12:02AM (Unverified) said

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WoW on a console would be freaking retarded. Unless they made a keyboard and mouse of some sort for it. In which you would still need a small table or something for it. There's no way to use a console's sucktastic joystick controls for an mmo. Hotkey's would be quite limited as well. Ugh.
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Posted: Jan 15th 2007 4:11PM (Unverified) said

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Deuce, you can hook up to a TV now, but I don't like how part of the picture gets cut off and I don't want to drag my computer to the livingroom everytime I want to play WoW. Heh, heh. Better to just have it on a console and enjoy it that way.
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Posted: Jan 15th 2007 4:53PM (Unverified) said

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Bliz has been sending out invitations to folks like me who stopped playing WoW long ago. I'm tempted to jump back in just to see what gives, but I'll definitely wait until after the first week (or month) has passed.
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Posted: Jan 15th 2007 5:17PM (Unverified) said

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Want to sit on your couch and play WoW to your heart's content?

Get a laptop. Problem solved.
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Posted: Jan 15th 2007 5:47PM 0ky13 said

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I use a gamepad to play WoW. It works great. By using the shoulder buttons for and and the top 6 buttons, I have 24 different actions to choose from.
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Posted: Jan 15th 2007 5:46PM (Unverified) said

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I think you meant: "The Draenei will be released" or "The Draenei will be unleashed", whichever you prefer.
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Posted: Jan 15th 2007 5:57PM (Unverified) said

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World of Starcraft. That would be sweet.
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Posted: Jan 16th 2007 1:27PM (Unverified) said

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Played Guild Wars, on my PC, 50" DLP at 1280x720, Xbox controller. Hit A button to target, right trigger to attack, Blck Button for Inventory..keyboard in lap to hit skills...kicked back in my recliner..
Yeah...it can and WOULD work, just laziness on the developers side..
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