World of Warcraft’s Midnight enlargement is making main adjustments to simplify courses and eradicate the necessity for player-made mods, but it surely’s not as a result of a console model is within the works.
That is in response to WoW senior recreation director Ion Hazzikostas in a brand new interview with the Unshackled Fury podcast, the place Hazzikostas tried to place latest rumors a couple of console port to mattress.
“To be totally clear, there is no purpose for us to cover something about this,” Hazzikostas mentioned. “If we had been actively working in direction of bringing WoW to consoles, or a bunch of different platforms, we would be saying, ‘We’re actively working in direction of it, we all know we now have a whole lot of work to do but it surely’s a spot the place we wish to land.'”
As an alternative, Hazzikostas mentioned the group’s focus continues to be on PC and that main adjustments coming in Midnight to class capability rotations, extra readable endgame encounters, and built-in instruments that do not require gamers obtain add-ons are about “approachability.”
Rumors about WoW coming to consoles have solely heated up lately following Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard in 2023. Extra lately, WoW’s upcoming adjustments, in addition to a latest report that the following Xbox will basically be a PC that permit gamers to launch Home windows and apps like Battle.web, have led some to imagine much more strongly that WoW shall be coming to consoles sooner somewhat than later. Even former Blizzard president Mike Ybarra added to the rumor mill in a since-deleted post on X, stating “Perhaps this is the reason they’re killing add-ons. Informal WoW inc.”
Whereas Blizzard won’t be actively engaged on bringing WoW to consoles, the adjustments coming in Midnight will not damage if a console model was to ultimately develop into a precedence for the developer. PC MMOs like New World and Closing Fantasy XIV have discovered success on console, so there may be actually potential for WoW to make the soar, ought to Blizzard ever resolve to make it occur.
In different WoW information, latest datamines have revealed Blizzard could also be introducing a brand new premium foreign money for its upcoming participant housing system, in addition to the return of the sport’s most notorious (and costly) store mount, the Dealer’s Gilded Brutosaur.
WoW: Midnight doesn’t but have an official launch date, however is predicted to reach early subsequent 12 months, principally possible in February if a datamined date for the enlargement’s pre-patch is to be believed.