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Warhammer Online might possibly come out on xbox 360, it was demonstared on 1 a while ago. But you probably wont play with PC users. The reason they gave for this was the 360 communities inexperience with MMORPGs. This would also require a vastly simpler GUI compared to wow.
you ask why not put wow on xbox, because it wouldnt sell because it would be a pain on a gamepad. When I played I used over 50 buttons for various hotkeys, and then the mouse for much more. i.e. I had spells on 1-0 and then more spells on Shift+1 - shift+5 then all spare keys around 'wsad' not used by ingame commands for the guild pane, the character screen etc for yet more abilities, each menu is based around cursur control, targetting is based around cursor control.
and to be frank, without all these keys you will be at a monumental disadvantage in pvp and no raiding guilds would even take a 2nd look at you to play the end game content.
I also dont think blizzard would do this as they have a large enough player base already and the % increase from xbox players would be tiny.
So, not impossible to have MMORPGs on xbox but certainly adds a new tricky element to game design. I also hope it doesnt happen as it will ruin PC MMORPGs as everything will be simplified. The offline RPG genre itself has been ruined for cross platform RPGs.
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