Wed, Aug 27, 2008 | 18:46 BST
WoW design boss: “We don’t have anything against consoles”
Speaking to Videogamer at Games Convention, Wrath of the Lich King lead designer Tom Chilton said that the firm doesn’t hate consoles: but don’t be expecting WoW on a pad just yet.
“It’s really not that we have anything against consoles,” Chilton said. “I mean we love console games also. And I’m sure there will be a successful MMO sometime on a console. So it has nothing to do with that. It’s just more like a square peg round hole thing for our game. It just wasn’t designed with that in mind.”
J Allen Brack, production director, added: “World of Warcraft is designed as a PC game. It’s designed to have a keyboard and a mouse. So the controls and the control scheme that you have are very PC centric. If you think about mapping those controls and all those different type of buttons that you have to a console without a keyboard for chatting, it’s a very challenging proposition.”
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Posted in: Activision Blizzard, GC 2008, MMO, PC
Tags: J Allen Brack, tom chilton, world of warcraft, wrath of the lich king
3 comments
#1
Syrok
27/08/08, 6:50 pm
It’s not like you can’t connect keyboard and mouse to a console…
#2
that_happy_cat
27/08/08, 8:32 pm
but who does that? I think that an FPS style MMO is the way forward… like the one Sony announced recently. NOt “strictly” an MMO but I would consider it one.
#3
No_PUDding
27/08/08, 8:33 pm
Me
Anyway, just a kind of on topic question. Would Everquest 3 come to PS3?