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In the autumn of last year, Holly Longdale, the executive producer and vice president of World of Warcraft, made headlines by saying the team talks about putting WoW on console “all the time”<\/a>. It’s a question the company has been asked repeatedly over the game’s near 20-year lifetime, and it’s an answer we’ve heard before, but it gained new momentum in light of Microsoft’s recently completed acquisition of Activision Blizzard.<\/a> When better to bring the game to Xbox than now?<\/p>\n

I had a chance to put the question to Holly Longdale again at a World of Warcraft: The War Within expansion event in London this week. Should people finally get their hopes up?<\/p>\n

“I mean…” Longdale began, cagily.<\/p>\n

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In the autumn of last year, Holly Longdale, the executive producer and vice president of World of Warcraft, made headlines by saying the team talks about putting WoW on console “all the time”. It’s a question the company has been asked repeatedly over the game’s near 20-year lifetime, and it’s an answer we’ve heard before, but it gained new momentum in light of Microsoft’s recently completed acquisition of Activision Blizzard. When better to bring the game to Xbox than now? I had a chance to put the question to Holly Longdale again at a World of Warcraft: The War Within expansion event in London this week. Should people finally get their hopes up? “I mean…” Longdale began, cagily. 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