Ok, bare with me a moment. This will start a bit techy… Watch this video.
For those who don’t know, that Legendary Nerd of Distinction is John Carmack, he who programmed Wolfenstein, Doom and Quake, at QuakeCon 2010. He is showing off Rage running on an iPhone 4. After having a gander at the game running at full resolution on the Rage website, you can probably see that it’s quite an awesome looking game. But what does this have to do with MMOs?
Basicly, with id taking mobile phone gaming seriously, and putting out a tech demo that looks better than every game on a mobile before it. Makes other companies take notice, and other companies include MMO developers. No more bizarre zombie based GPS MMO things, no more sub N64 style attempts at MMOs with 3 classes and 7 weapons. Now we’ll have a proper MMO in our pocket, and about time! MMOs are meant to be played alot, with all the good stuff you can do in them, but they’re also good for keeping in touch with friends, so having one in your pocket makes sense, and if it happens to be one of the larger ones all the better.
Give it a few years and most popular MMOs will have mobile clients, and not just the auction apps Warcraft, Aion and Fallen Earth have, but a fully fledged game in their own right, obviously the faster paced games like APB and Global Agenda will probably not work, but for your normal fantasy based game, should work a treat.
Anyone looking forward to their mobile battery taking an even bigger pounding than usual?
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