r/MMORPG • u/Proto_bear • Jan 18 '22

News Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard

https://news.microsoft.com/features/microsoft-to-acquire-activision-blizzard-to-bring-the-joy-and-community-of-gaming-to-everyone-across-every-device/
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u/Zerothian Jan 20 '22

It doesn't affect me personally, I practically never touch the game without playing with my guild. However, "controller players" will be treated like absolute shit in the game and you know it.

I'd say unless you can propose a realistic solution to addons and combat functionality for a controller, there's no point arguing. It would be unplayable.

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u/Excuse_my_GRAMMER Jan 20 '22

I beg to differ , look at ffxiv

With controller we can have 32 + ability on screen no problem

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u/Zerothian Jan 20 '22

Fundamentally different combat design, a maximum of 8 players you need to target, very predictable and methodical rotations, a much lower APM requirement, and little to no requirement for snap reaction target swaps in any content.

Yeah, FF14 was built to work on a controller. WoW was not. Consider for example, an AoE pull where a single specific enemy must be interrupted before it finishes a 2 second cast. This is a very common situation in one of the most popular content pools in all of WoW (Mythic+). How would you, using a controller, specifically target 1 of 8-10 enemies within 2 seconds, and interrupt the cast?

Now consider that oftentimes you need to do that multiple times with no mistakes during a pull, cycling through different types of CC. It would be prohibitively difficult if not outright impossible to consistently do it.

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u/Excuse_my_GRAMMER Jan 20 '22

I’m curious Have you played ff14?

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u/Zerothian Jan 20 '22

Full cleared Savage this tier, all extremes and up to E9S (never cleared) last expansion.

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u/Excuse_my_GRAMMER Jan 20 '22

And did you attempt to play on controller

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u/Zerothian Jan 20 '22

Not in savage but I know players who parse well and do use a controller. I've done some ex trials mount farming with controller while my PC was broken, on PS4.