"Strings have been added for gamepad" - WoW coming to consoles?

[Michael Jackson]

Not sure how that would work with all the abilities, unless consoles have full kb/mouse support.

[huth]

There are issues in other areas that make it unlikely anybody is going to do high-level play on a console. You'd just not be competitive.

[guisadop]

How weird that they add controller support at the same time they start to un-prune class abilities. The pruning was the best moment to add controller support and I remember some people speculating it would be added at the time.

[Lahis]

With proper UI tweaks WoW already plays fine on gamepad. Mind you this is no way to do any challenging content, but questing and levelling would be fine.



Though as is evident, making it actually feel good on gamepad requires much UI modding beyond the base UI and I doubt Blizz would do that.

[Mirishka]

I'd love to try and noodle around with WoW using a controller.

[Newname1234567890]

More options are always welcome even if they're not optimal

[Lahis]

I'd love to try and noodle around with WoW using a controller.

Then go ahead: https://medium.com/@belular/world-of...n-c549fa871b69

[Justpassing]

Could just be gamepad support.

[Onikaroshi]

There are issues in other areas that make it unlikely anybody is going to do high-level play on a console. You'd just not be competitive.

I mean, a guy cleared mythic using a controller.

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Not sure how that would work with all the abilities, unless consoles have full kb/mouse support.

8 face buttons, with modifiers you can have easy access to over 40 bindings.

[Linkedblade]

I'd love to try and noodle around with WoW using a controller.

There's add-ons that do amazing things. Take a USB Xbox 360 controller or xbone cobtroller. Get the add-on and program your hot keys.

The add-on modifies the UI to be more console gamelike. Quests UI looks great.

[Polarthief]

There are issues in other areas that make it unlikely anybody is going to do high-level play on a console. You'd just not be competitive.

While I don't disagree that using a controller will make you vastly inferior, FFXIV has way more buttons in every base rotation and yet they seem to manage decently enough to the point where I could see it happening. I'd super-recommend using M&K even on a console though, but still, I don't know why Blizzard never tried to dip into the console market before with WoW, and it's been going on for 15 years now.

[doodle90]

I mean if they follow FF14 plenty of buttons for every skill/macro. I guess healing in a raid would be annoying but thats about it.

[Alvito]

With proper UI tweaks WoW already plays fine on gamepad. Mind you this is no way to do any challenging content, but questing and levelling would be fine.



Though as is evident, making it actually feel good on gamepad requires much UI modding beyond the base UI and I doubt Blizz would do that.

When you can't play a bunch of content and are limited in what you can do in other content it isn't exactly fine.

[huth]

While I don't disagree that using a controller will make you vastly inferior, FFXIV has way more buttons in every base rotation and yet they seem to manage decently enough to the point where I could see it happening. I'd super-recommend using M&K even on a console though, but still, I don't know why Blizzard never tried to dip into the console market before with WoW, and it's been going on for 15 years now.

Context. Other areas than keybinding your abilities.

[MrLachyG]

Not sure how that would work with all the abilities, unless consoles have full kb/mouse support.

I've seen people play using xbox controllers already.

[Nathanyel]

With proper UI tweaks WoW already plays fine on gamepad. Mind you this is no way to do any challenging content, but questing and levelling would be fine.

Yeah, this sounds mostly like an official implementation of what WoWmapper does, possibly also with UI helpers like the ConsolePort addon.

[Onikaroshi]

When you can't play a bunch of content and are limited in what you can do in other content it isn't exactly fine.

"A bunch of content"

PvP would probably suck, healing is annoying, but everything else should be fine.

[Mirishka]

There's add-ons that do amazing things. Take a USB Xbox 360 controller or xbone cobtroller. Get the add-on and program your hot keys.

The add-on modifies the UI to be more console gamelike. Quests UI looks great.

Well wow, I had no idea. I'll look into it!

[Omedon]

The idea of WoW stepping away from "everyone is playing at a keyboard and can therefore chat" is a lot, a lot bigger than people realize when it comes to designing the main vein of the game! Just officially supporting a "potentially textless random group" is massive!

Of course it's been done, but it IS a culture shock for WoW!

[Linkedblade]

The idea of WoW stepping away from "everyone is playing at a keyboard and can therefore chat" is a lot, a lot bigger than people realize when it comes to designing the main vein of the game! Just officially supporting a "potentially textless random group" is massive!

Of course it's been done, but it IS a culture shock for WoW!

Wow has it's on built in voice chat. Not to mention consoles have their own