Quote Originally Posted by Lyonheart View Post
It got me thinking and so i will predict, the new blizzard MMO will be for ( or playable ) on XBOX One! What ya think? maybe? no way?
Seeing as Blizzard is releasing Diablo for the PS3 and PS4, I doubt their next-gen MMO will be exclusive to XBox One. Playable on consoles? Perhaps. Exclusive to XBox One? Doubtful.

It might be cool to have console players join PC players to help liven up the world with more people, but I see a few shortcomings with that:

1) Console players would most likely be forced to purchase an extra mouse/keyboard so that they could play. If Blizzard's next-gen MMO has anywhere near as many abilities per class (assuming there are some types of classes or roles to choose from with more abilities than what D3 uses) as WoW does, then you won't be able to fit all of them onto a handheld controller.

2) I'm going to bet that most guilds who are into some sort of semi-serious progression would blacklist console players from their ranks for whatever reason and that's going to lead to more whining from the

3) Console players who've never played an MMO before are going to step into the MMO world with their l33t CoD skillz and be as good as BR players on NA realms. There, I said it. >_>

SquareEnix put out FFXI on PS2 and, from what I understand, it worked out just fine; but FFXI was/is a very slow-paced game that ran at 30FPS and all casting was pretty much done through menus via key bindings (think action bar pages) and there was no need for a mouse.