Blizzard Will 'Definitely Work On A Console Game At Some Point'


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Here's good news for console owners:

Massively successful PC MMO World of Warcraft is celebrating its fifth anniversary, while the over-arching Warcraft real-time strategy franchise has been around for 15 years now. At the core of both properties: The PC market.

We reflect with Samwise Didier, senior director of StarCraft II and art director of the first three Warcraft games, and J. Allen Brack, production director for World of Warcraft, on Blizzard's storied history in our latest Gamasutra feature, and part of the discussion deals with how the company sees the state of the PC business.

"I don't see the PC market as being bad. I mean, we didn't have 12 million players ten years ago," says Didier. "Whatever the format, console or PC, I think if there is a good game, it's going to be played."

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/26573/B..._Some_Point.php

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They are just scared FF14 is going to eat everyone away! Which I am hoping to be one of the many converts. They should focus on starcraft1.5 for consoles than a mmo.

I'm pretty sure Activision/Blizzard doesn't consider Square Enix to be any kind of threat

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They are just scared FF14 is going to eat everyone away! Which I am hoping to be one of the many converts. They should focus on starcraft1.5 for consoles than a mmo.

yeah. if FFIV is anything like FFXI than playing it would be self-torture.

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I'm looking forward to playing Freerealms on the PS3 just because it's free and something to waste time with, but I don't think I could see myself investing much time into a console MMO. Need the ability for addons/mods and most important kb/mouse for complexity.

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I'm unsure what they could actually put on a console that would work on a console. Blizz is known for RTS games, which generally don't work all that well on a console - the gamepad is a little slow moving around and issuing commands for a game like that.

And there's no way in hell they would port WoW to a console (at least not the 360 since you can't have a keyboard/mouse).

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