Developer Leak: World of Warcraft for Consoles

Gameplayer is reporting that a developer has leaked in an interview that World of Warcraft is, after all, coming to consoles.

"To date, it (World of Warcraft) is an experience only enjoyed by PC gamers. Until now… A bigwig with connections to the highest levels of Vivendi management has seemingly confirmed that World of Warcraft is coming to consoles."

NOTE: Obviously this is still categorized as a rumor at this point.

[pwnsause]

OH NOES!!!!1, this is gonna be worse than HEROIN HERO!!!!!

[Omegasyde]

LMAO @name. Wow how did you get away with the N word in your name?

I am sure as I type this your account has been banned however.

[redwingsrock]

AHAHAHAHAHA Thats the best thing I've heard today

[Howler9443]

Actually, I think that the quote was misread.

“…we have to make sure we support it. Because next-gen consoles demand it. We have to be online. Obviously it’s gonna get more and more like what WoW are doing, with thousands of players on consoles, eventually. Which is pretty exciting. I can’t wait for that. It’ll be pretty fun.”

Its clear to me that he is talking about supporting online play, and that they have to support online play, because games are going to be more like WoW in the console arena with regards to the sheer numbers of players in the same virtual world. So having a scalable and stable network infrastructure is critical to them as it should be to any dev that wants thousands of users playing the same game in the same space.

He's clearly excited about thousands of console users playing in an MMO style setting.

I am not saying that WoW will never come to the consoles. I just don't think thats what this guy was saying is all.

[jvsantos]

Breaking an addiction with this game is worse than going without food or water for a full month.

No way I'm ever playing this again.

[mintaro]

holy sh*t, i know it's still speculation, but if this is true than the world will halt for days at a time. Millions of people will stop going to work, fires will start from overplaying, and due to all the firemen playin WoW, no one will be able to put them out.
It is at this time when the world will come to an end.......a horrible horrible end..........

cant wait to play :D

[pwnsause]

LMAO!11

[ROFLatYoFace]

Thats the effect LBP will have on PS3 owners

[btkadams]

lol i doubt it... but if it actually happened...woah...
imagine ps3 and 360 and pc all on the same servers.. ahaha.

[RecSpec]

Unless they drop the fee, PS3 people don't even want to pay for their online service (myself included) what makes you think they would pay for one game? Plus like heroin it would be best just to stay off this drug.

[Percy]

I have played mmos on the playstation for a long time now and none have been free. Started with everquest online adventures moved to FFXI. There are still people that pay to play eqoa on the ps2 so i think that they will not have a problem finding people to play. Problem is the game is so old who is gonna want to just be getting started now. I would like it if they made new servers for the new players and did not allow transfers to them.

[CaliGamer]

really good at all? Never played it so I don't know if this is something I should be looking forward to or not. The game is a bit old too right, I wonder if they will update the graphics at all.

Anyway, the quote sounded like the person made a comparison or example and they might have taken it out of context, I guess time will tell.

[Omegasyde]

ITs very addicting. I had to give the game up so my wife wouldn't destroy my computer. The graphics suck however in comparison to todays standard but the game was great and alots of stuff to explore.

But the dungeons are way too long, and you have to roll for crap. Its especially frustarating when you need this last piece of armor to complete a set and a guild member claims seniority over you despite him playing with a class that is not even his main character.....

Sorry, but yea the game is fun.

[Lumbo]

hmm, its hellish on PC with anything less than 1gig of RAM, and without a keyboard its not worth the bother, you need lotsa keys for macros and stuff to play competitive.

[Omegasyde]

I agree this game has way too many macros and hotkeys to play with a controller. Then again you can plug in a keyboard and mouse to the ps3, and everquest is coming to the ps3 as well.

And then again FFXI:online was also successful on the ps2.

[Ri0tSquad]

Boring as hell. I'll stick to games like God Of war and gears.

[Tarmgar]

I played WoW but I quit because I was tired of paying to play monthly. And also I lagged badly because of a crappy computer. But if this came to consoles, I'll buy it and play it aaaallllll over again baby!

[Omegasyde]

Same here. Can't wait to raid ogrimar if this is true.

Alliance for the Win.

[chrno6]

I quit because it is poison. It's too addictive I say.

[bootsielon]

That would multiply its install base by almost three; three if they manage to do something with that piece of crap hardware, the Wii.

[BloodySinner]

Even if this title hit consoles, I still wouldn't play it.

[akaFullMetal]

i doubt it will happen, and if it does well then there will be a dark day for the world when everything stops

[Omegasyde]

Yea I believe that the number 1 reason PC games aren't selling is because of World of Warcrack.

[happygamer]

wow how can anyone not like this. heck you can play on private servers just check out rebelwow.com

[Supermax]

wow is old bring out diablo or starcraft mmorpg for consoles.

[LinuxGuru]

I can see this hitting the PS3....it's logical due to the keyboard and mouse support.

I played it for a while on PC....it's amazing how well this game runs on any system...

I might try it again if it's released on PS3...but I don't want to pay the 14.95 a month.

[jaja1434]

Enh I enjoy WoW for a time, but that was a few years ago and the moment is gone.

Now bring War to the 360 and we'll talk!

[Supermax]

warhammer online is comein to 360 as well as conan wich will be out sometime after march release of conan to pc.im very happy to see mmorpgs comein to 360.

[Genki]

but with the recent merger, I could easily see this becoming a reality. Besides, what better way to test the "MMO console" waters than with the worlds most popular(and notorious) one?

They certainly have a lot less to lose than an upstarting developer, that's for sure. I say go for it, but I still won't buy it.

[happygamer]

wheat im not a big supporter of 360 but its a cool thing that mmos are coming they are the games i have the most fun with. give rebelwow a shot you will thank me later.

they have fun servers instant 70 get all arena gear tier gear and pvp all day/night donate for custom armor sets legendary stuff.

they have regular bliz like servers to hope i dont get in trouble for posting this lol.

[xionpunk]

If only there were no subscription for WOW, I hate that...

[Odion]

theres no way this is true, it would take SO long for blizzard to make a proper port, they already have 3 other games in the making, and they have 10 million people playing their game now, why bother with the development cost when your the biggest online game in the world?

[SlappingOysters]

Well they've had about four years or so. And isn't the Xbox 360 and PC kinda of close for developers? The network code would both be based on MS works

[kunark]

most mmo games have a fee still waiting on eq2 to hit the consoles if wow comes to the consoles ill give it a shot hear its better then everquest

[Supermax]

id be very happy to pay for a great mmorpg monthy on top of my live account fee.ive played wow sisne its been out so im not lookin forward to a wow on consoles lol,but like i said diablo or starcraft mmorpg im down with as well as warhammer or conan wich is lookin more likely.im not even seein the reason fable 2 cant be a mmorpg if they put the time and money into it that would be great as well as a mass effect mmorpg thats very doable.

[Rice]

cool....

[redwingsrock]

no more sitting in my uncomfortable computer chair! can't wait!
Ps3 + WoW = Awsoumness

[scoobs]

there is no way WoW will come to consoles, totally fake.

[TruthbeTold]

...I find it puzzling that any of the Consoles would want it. I think that 3rd party MMO's would cut into the sales of other games.

[Blasphemy]

I may possibly try this game again if it came to consoles. I played the PC version but my computer sucks trying to run this game and I really didn't want to get addicted so I quit.

[Rocko]

cuz blizzard will still charge, with Mass Effect already out and Fallout 3 coming, im not gonna pay to play a kiddie MMORPG.

[J@D]

Hmmmm, I don't think so but there still a chance I mean they want our money too.

[rushbd]

I'll be playing the Agency :D:D

[Charlie2688]

Did someone actually bothered to read the quote? like SERIOUSLY?

The ONLY thing this quote alone proves or implies is that Chris Ansell from Radical Entertainment thinks Online is important for consoles and that they want to create a online gaming community using his example WOW (for his game PROTOTYPE and the sequels)...that is about it

I don't understand were is the author is getting his "dots" to "connect" them, at best speculating ALL you can you get that Radical Entertainment could be looking into providing a new MMO and that is if we ignore that the quote is basically the usual PR talk about "Online FTW" we have been hearing for a while from a large number of devs and lets not forget he is talking about the co-op and online for his new game PROTOTYPE which I am pretty sure it has nothing to do with WOW

But I guess people feel the need to connect dots were there isn't any >.>

[Robanov]

I can't believe the rest of you jumping the gun like this, did you not read the article? He in no way states or even implies that Wow will be coming to any consoles he merely says that he is looking forward to next gen consoles developing more towards online gaming. Wouldn't want Wow anyway, played the week subscription and it was pretty rubbish to be honest!

[xc7x]

and it's not the same one posted this contributor put down in quotes,so i call it b.s. [for now anyways]. the part quoted above is not from a quote at all but just part of the message in the article of the original. this topic fails.

[Matpan]

played 8 months straight on PC while working freelance at home... Man I thought I was over it... now they say they´ll bring it to consoles... It`s haunting me!!! it´s haunting me!!!!

Do they have WoW rehabilitation clinics somewhere?

[solar]

if this rumor is true....

then the console world will get to expirence ppl: constantly trying to screw you outta gear, stealing ur gold, b1tching like lil girls, being complete d1cks, and missing out on the story of the game because ur not in a high lvl raiding guild. have fun with that turd of a game.

[Phaqutomb]

"we have to make sure we support it. Because next-gen consoles demand it. We have to be online. Obviously it’s gonna get more and more like what WoW are doing, with thousands of players on consoles, eventually. Which is pretty exciting. I can’t wait for that. It’ll be pretty fun.”

all i see is like what WoW is doing. with thousands of players on line.

[ELite_Ghost]

BYE BYE PC GAMING!!!