Wow is coming to consoles in few years

[Broduin-silvermoon]

@Nannexx-argent-dawn

And how do you guys think they should port WoW to XBox/PS?

It’s way easier to optimize games on console than on PC. With wow it’s a little tricky though, because of how the UI is designed and how bloated class design is

[Sodachen-lothar]

@Nannexx-argent-dawn

And how do you guys think they should port WoW to XBox/PS?

Switch 2 plox!

[Beerwolf-sunstrider (Beerwolf)]

Unless Blizz overhauls their ancient engine to run better on modern PCs I don’t see it happening as it’s just not feasible.

[Nannexx-argent-dawn]

@Broduin-silvermoon

It’s way easier to optimize games on console than on PC. With wow it’s a little tricky though, because of how the UI is designed and how bloated class design is

You can’t “optimize” WoW’s single core engine to perform good on console CPUs. It’s not “UI design and bloated classes”, it’s purely the required CPU single core performance to munch through all those single threaded calculations.

@Sodachen-lothar

@Nannexx-argent-dawn

And how do you guys think they should port WoW to XBox/PS?

Switch 2 plox!

I know, I know Soda

[Exiasee-eonar (Exiasee)]

@Nannexx-argent-dawn

And how do you guys think they should port WoW to XBox/PS? People will have a go at Blizzard because of the crappy frames in raids and city hubs with those weak single core performance CPUs in consoles.

I expect they will have specific graphic settings for consoles which in raid environments and battlegrounds may go even below the minimum available on PCs to reduce CPU load.

Or, the worst case, they will do it through a streaming service.

Or, the best scenario, they are already working on porting the game to a modern engine (hopefully not UE5) and when the game does release in that new engine it will be made available to consoles a bit later.

[Snackstation-wild-growth]

@Broduin-silvermoon

how bloated class design is

Have you played a max level character in FF14? They have a ton of skills.

It can be done on a controller no problem.

[Souldefiler-blades-edge (Souldefíler)]

Love these threads.

It brings out all the histrionic pc “master race” zealots who are absolutely repulsed at the idea of wow on consoles.

“Im not going to play with those peasants!!”

Well you always play with your clique anyway so it wont make a difference to you will it?

[Nannexx-argent-dawn]

@Exiasee-eonar

I expect they will have specific graphic settings for consoles which in raid environments and battlegrounds may go even below the minimum available on PCs to reduce CPU load.

That would upset most of console players. WoW on consoles yes but at mushy peas graphics? Nah. No one would want that.

@Exiasee-eonar

Or, the worst case, they will do it through a streaming service.

Even that wouldn’t perform all too well because those streaming servers don’t have enough single core power. And you wont have any Ryzen X3D CPUs in streaming sevrers. ( I know, X3D CPUs aren’t THE solution to WoWs single thread issue, they’re just the most usefull ones atm.)

@Exiasee-eonar

Or, the best scenario, they are already working on porting the game to a modern engine (hopefully not UE5) and when the game does release in that new engine it will be made available to consoles a bit later.

Yeah sure…

It’s not Final Fantasy 14 1.0 wich got rewritten, it’s TWENTY YEARS OF CONTENT taht needs to be redone…sure they’ll just port that to a new engine.

…oh, and UE5 is not designed for MMOs like WoW, FF14, etc. …

@Souldefiler-blades-edge

Love these threads.

It brings out all the histrionic pc “master race” zealots who are absolutely repulsed at the idea of wow on consoles.

“Im not going to play with those peasants!!”

Well you always play with your clique anyway so it wont make a difference to you will it?

Yeeaahh…that “PC master race” bantering should’ve died ages ago. Yes, I personally still think PCs are still the better tech for high quality gfx, but the costs for it over the past decade, despite of being much more expensive than consoles since forever, exploded too much and consoles are just “good enough” at that low price tag for most people to ignore the flaws they have compared to mid/top end PC hardware.

[Cheherasade-aegwynn]

Hope Blizzard doesn’t even think about that. Would kill the game in my opinion. At least if they try to adept the PC version to the console one. For example if you have to choose between a low number of different talents/skills, because console players are limited in their number of buttons. I would quit immediatly.