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I cant stand consoles because I dont feel like im in control with a controller..  I cant stand playing a game without a keyboard and mouse and thats why ill never get a console.

Originally posted by Munki

Originally posted by Jimmy_Scythe

BTW, just found some videos of people playing WoW with various controllers. I don't see how your ability to play this game would be affected at all by using a controller.

Switchblade instructional video

WoW with a Wiimote

Not Quite sure what's going on in this one...

Rogue with a controller

And WoW on an iPhone

Okay... So playing WoW on an iPhone looks like a total pain in the ass. But a gamepad doesn't seem to change the experience at all.

I notice a lack of talking...
As well as a huge amount of clumsy movement and skill use.
Looks doable, but I cant see it being worth the effort.

Making it possible means nothing if the control scheme is inferior (in the sense that someone with a mouse and keyboard can do more things faster), and these examples clearly are.

If it feels, looks, or controls like a crappy port it won't sell well.  That's true for console to PC ports as well as PC to console ports.

Like I said earlier, I know it's possible to make a good MMO with current console systems (well, maybe not the Wii, with its lack of rewritable local mass storage), but they have to be designed from the ground up to support being played with a controller and voice chat.

MMO's are international. More people can type english than can speak.

If all you do is talk, you are limited to playing on yank servers.

No, I can play on most British and European servers as well since most Europeans I've encountered, both on and off line, have spoken English very well. I also speak Spanish and some Japanese so I could probably play on those as well.

If you really wanted to communicate with people in other countries, you would learn the bare basics of their language.

I can write engrish, but I can't speak english, and my level of understand of english voice is almost zero.

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Other than that, a "general channel" could be killed, and replaced by a /say (location channel), with the ability to filter out this channel, and show a "....." over the head of people speaking on that channel, so you know visually that the guys is saying something, but not what he say.

If the UI is designed for a controller then it works well with a controller.

I don't really like playing FFXI.  However,  I bought the game tried playing it with a mouse and keyboard.   Within about two days I went and bought a PS2 Controller and a converter to play the game.

IMO Keyboard and Mouse is only better in First Person Shooters.   And thats only because the sticks still don't have the resolution that a mouse has.