RUMOR: World of Warcraft coming to the Xbox 360?

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They are still likely goin to put a subscription Fee on a 360 version (if its ever goin to happen) Everquest:Online Adventures for the playstation 2 has a subscription fee so this will probbably have a subscription fee too.And anyways if it ever comes out for the 360 the controls are going to be horrible unless they release a keyboard and mouse for the 360 so Im still sticking to my p.c version

bull **** it wont be as good as it is on te PC it will suck

If they could sort out a no fee subs scheme for the game, then this could sell a lot of 360s and XBL gold subs. It;s the perfect MMOG for consoles. Easy to pick up, decent progress times and plenty of youth appeal. Oh well...

My PC isn't up to date and I usually avoid games with subscriptions, but an Xbox 360 version would get me to play.

Could you imagine if that was the case and we could play WoW on the Xbox 360...Microsoft and Blizzard would have a field day with it.

Source: A job listing on the Blizzard Entertainment Web site.

The official story: "Microsoft does not comment on rumors or speculation."--Microsoft spokesperson; Blizzard Entertainment reps declined requests for comment.

What we heard: Part gossip, part geek fantasy, the World of Warcraft Xbox 360 rumor has been around for a while. Prior to E3 2005 in May, scuttlebutt was rampant that Microsoft would announce that the massively multiplayer role-playing game was coming to its next-gen console at its press conference. The company did indeed announce a 360 MMORPG...problem was it was Final Fantasy XI, which is already available for both the PC and PlayStation 2--hardly a system-selling title.

Were WoW to become available for the 360, though, it would be a much different story. Given World of Warcraft's popularity--it already has over 4.5 million subscribers and has been among the top five top-selling PC games since its 2004 release--many gamers would gladly buy a 360 just to get in on the Azeroth action. Also, the PC hardware required to run the game costs several times the hard drive-enabled 360's $399 sticker price.

Enthusiasm for a 360 WoW was flared up with the recent discovery of several Blizzard job listings for next-generation console positions. The site has positions for next-gen engine programmers, next-gen tools programmers, and next-gen game physics/collision programmers.

So will the Xbox 360 be WoW-ed? It is a possibility. However, a more likely scenario was outlined this past February, when Blizzard sent out a product catalog that announced that Starcraft: Ghost was "coming soon to next-generation consoles." Though a rep said the ad was a misprint and denied the long-delayed console game was in development for next-gen platforms, the game's current release window, Q2 2006, is the same as that of the PlayStation 3. Mere coincidence, perchance?

Bogus or not bogus?: Not enough information to say either way, but we're hoping not bogus.