Rumors of an eventual console port for World of Warcraft have been circulating for years now, and anyone still hoping it’ll happen are in for a world of hurt.
During an interview with IGN, World of Warcraft game director Ion Hazzikostas spoke about the long-running MMORPG‘s improved controller support coming in the Dragonflight expansion and whether that means console ports are looming on the horizon. In short, he’s not a fan of the idea.
“Nah, I think World of Warcraft is a game designed from the ground up for the PC,” Hazzikostas said. “I think we’ve just been looking at the ways in which add-ons have at times felt increasingly required, or like the first thing you do when someone comes to the game for the first time is tell them, ‘Hey, go download this add-on pack and move this stuff around’ and we want to do better for our players.”
Well, that’s that then. Many were hoping that an Xbox Series X|S version was in the cards ever since Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard.
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— World of Warcraft (@Warcraft) April 19, 2022
Blizzard did reveal Wrath of the Lich King Classic alongside Dragonflight, so there’s still plenty of life left in the aging MMORPG that still isn’t on consoles.
Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.
