Blizzard Entertainment's veteran MMORPG will be updated with this feature, though it's intended to improve accessibility.
No, the World of Warcraft: Shadowlands expansion will not adapt its gameplay to the controls like Final Fantasy XIV. Blizzard Entertainment is working to add official support for this type of control, but the intention is to reinforce its commitment to accessibility. This will give players with disabilities more opportunities to play the video game. This was announced by the company itself with CM Randy Jordan, who explained it in the official forums.
"For a long time, we have observed that a small group of players activated third-party addons such as Console Port, with the aim of solving some accessibility problems," he writes. "We always wanted to make WoW more accessible if possible, so in Shadowlands we are going to try to implement support" for shortcuts or camera movements. The Xbox Adaptive Controller is also mentioned, a product that Microsoft designed specifically for people with reduced mobility, with which they will try to enable character turns.
The answer in the official forums.
Accessibility and diversity
Jordan himself has ruled out the possibility of controlling the game with an adaptation to command as in Final Fantasy XIV, where each of the aspects can be managed from the pad, since it is a title that also has a version on consoles. In any case, World of Warcraft: Shadowlands breaks new ground within the popular Blizzard Entertainment video game. This new feature was initially uncovered by Martin Benjamins, a dataminer who discovered traces of information in one of the MMORPG patches.
The North American company has already announced that with this new expansion they will promote the diversity of the characters. They will not do it by changing the color of the skin, but they will dedicate extra time to offer variety in the protagonists. World of Warcraft: Shadowlands does not yet have a release date, although the expansion is scheduled for this year 2020.
