Maybe they won’t. Then we’ll have some new builds instead.
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MMO’s like Black Desert and ESO require far more slots than this game and they work just fine on console. You can easily make bar swaps(like ESO) or use button combos and ring menus(like BDO) which essentially gives you 30+ slots. Having enough easily accessible slots is the least of their problems when it comes to porting a game.
Any news on Xbox One port?? desperate to play!
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I think it is exceedingly strange we still have no announcements about this. We are talking about entire game development calendars since this port was announced, and still nothing?
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Well it scares me honestly that they are taking as long as they are with no announcements.
It is basically telling me they are having serious issues with either the game or licensing or whatever…
From GD’s Facebook page:
" 13 January ·
A quick heads up on the Xbox Port, as that has been a topic of some discussion in the comments section of late.
As you may have guessed by it now being 2020, our original estimate of releasing the port in 2019 may have been a tad ambitious.
But the good news is: the Xbox port is 100% still coming and the extra time it’s had in development is only going to result in a better experience for you as all of the PC version’s major content updates will now be included right away!
In the process of working on certification requirements, we felt that additional optimization would ensure that the game you will be seeing on console will look and feel as awesome as it does on PC, without compromising on visuals and gameplay by removing objects from playable scenes.
The upside of going above and beyond on the engine work is that performance will be even better on both console and PC!
Stay tuned in the coming months as we approach the finish line and the Xbox port is in your hands!"
Thank you. I’m not on Facebook so that is very helpful. I know it’s strange that I don’t just pick it up on my PC, but I’m a man of habit and when I’m gaming I’m sitting in a recliner gaming. When I’m on my computer I’m working. Thanks again good sir.
Thanks a ton Medea, now I just wish they would tell us if it has couch coop or not.
There is no way they don’t know if it will be included at this point or not =(
Maybe than again, if it’s a feature which is considered, it also could be something which they tackle / try when they feel the Game is ready / polished enough. I understand how you feel about this, while i most likely focus my time on the PC Edition, similiar to Diablo 3 it would be a reason to pick up on Console again solely for Couch-Co-op. Would help to hype the Xbox Port more… yet again i’d argue if they would’ve information or atleast be ready to share such information, than they would’ve done it already, so my guess is, it’s either not final / tackled yet, or they wait for a better timing for marketing purpose.
Just picked this up from the GD Facebook page
“Currently going through certification testing, which can take a while but we’re in the final stretch.”
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Just now on GD Facebook
"The Xbox One port is going through certification testing. There have been a few minor cert failures so far, but they’ve already been addressed.
If more issues emerge as testing proceeds, we will have to address them as well.
Other than that, it is progressing smoothly!"
usually how long does it take to certificate a game?
Mebbe Google knows. You can type questions into it. Often it provides answers in some form or another 
Just a little something I noticed many years ago.
https://www.google.com/search?q=how+long+does+xbox+certification+take
Long story short: It varies.
thank you, learn new things every day from people like you. keep going, go another forum to give some lessons to people, they need you.
Mmm… not really feeling the urge for that. Been holding it down here for 6-7 years now and I rather like it. I’m good but thanks for the suggestion. Feel free to send 'em my way tho.
And don’t take it personal… it’s just an autoreflex of mine when people ask questions that noone in the thread would actually know off the top of their head. Except for @medea_fleecestealer who of course is absolutely employed by Crate. 
I really mean that. She’s probably highly paid. I think. Like Benjamins for days.
I’m really looking forward to GD on the XBOX!
How is that a cop out? I think you need to use Google to look up how to use the term ‘cop out’ appropriately. I’m not a dev /gasp1 - so using Google is the logical thing to do. Your own account of the process there even verifies exactly what Google turns up about the process (which can even be seen in my screenshot above)! That it varies! Imagine that.
If you had actually Googled it and looked you would have seen that I was right. Hell, if you had actually read my post you would have seen that it was already determined exactly what you just verified…
So use Google and thanks for verifying that Google actually does work. One day in the possibly near future this conversation will likely even turn up on the same topic as yet more proof of Google working. /gasp2
Gotta love the irony in that.
This is getting silly. This port is not only taking longer than entire game developments but we still don’t even have an expected release date. Crate is obviously not working diligently to release this on Xbox and that is really bad business. They must know POE 2 is just around the corner and Diablo 4 following that. If this takes much longer it will be too late.
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I think there may be good reasons other than the certification process why the xbox release is taking time, e.g multiplayer could use some work, mod support and/or potential stash issues (assuming GD stash or IA can’t run on an xbox). I bet these would be quite significant criticisms of the xbox release if it were to release with players not having ways to resolve those frustrations.
As much as I look forward to it, I don’t think vanilla GD is user-friendly enough for console.
My suspicion is that Crate will want to release a more polished version for the platform as the release will bring in more attention. I don’t know why else it would take this long.
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