MMO for smartphones!

Bob The Mercenary · 05-14-2011, 04:54 PM

Order and Chaos

You want it, you need it, you crave it.

I just downloaded it for my iPhone the other day. It is basically WoW in your pocket. I mean everything from talent trees to classes to races to guilds... The graphics are even as smooth as generation one WoW. I have a level five monk (healer) on the first server if anyone else is interested in playing. It's compatible with Androids and iPhones so far and they are working on a port to the Droid.

The parts they had to scale down they did with style. The world is much more condensed, with objectives only about a minute or two away from major towns and cities. The gui has three touch buttons, one auto attack and two customizable spell/skills. You use your left thumb to move around and right to move the camera.

Inventory and spell learning are both carbon copied from WoW, and the servers are populated, but not overwhelmingly so (about 600-1000 on at any one time in my server). Lag and broken quests were concerns until the last patch which seemed to fix most things.

Only a few gripes. The left thumbstick isn't as responsive as I'd prefer, and the game will make your battery its bitch. Combat is as simple as touching the mob with your finger, but often I find myself hitting the wrong mob or another player. The zoom feature solves that for the most part.

Also, you need to be connected to a wifi access point to play it. And if you're not relatively close to it, you'll get a lot of "reconnecting to server" messages. I just think it's awesome that in between either deliveries or repairs at work I can complete a quest or two and continue on with my day. Hopefully they'll eventually create an mmo that unifies consoles, computers, and cell phones.

[Edit] Oh yeah, it's $7 to buy and then there's something like a $1 or $2 monthly fee.

05-14-2011, 04:54 PM	#1
Bob The Mercenary Bob Dole Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Bob Dole Posts: 5,606	MMO for smartphones! Order and Chaos You want it, you need it, you crave it. I just downloaded it for my iPhone the other day. It is basically WoW in your pocket. I mean everything from talent trees to classes to races to guilds... The graphics are even as smooth as generation one WoW. I have a level five monk (healer) on the first server if anyone else is interested in playing. It's compatible with Androids and iPhones so far and they are working on a port to the Droid. The parts they had to scale down they did with style. The world is much more condensed, with objectives only about a minute or two away from major towns and cities. The gui has three touch buttons, one auto attack and two customizable spell/skills. You use your left thumb to move around and right to move the camera. Inventory and spell learning are both carbon copied from WoW, and the servers are populated, but not overwhelmingly so (about 600-1000 on at any one time in my server). Lag and broken quests were concerns until the last patch which seemed to fix most things. Only a few gripes. The left thumbstick isn't as responsive as I'd prefer, and the game will make your battery its bitch. Combat is as simple as touching the mob with your finger, but often I find myself hitting the wrong mob or another player. The zoom feature solves that for the most part. Also, you need to be connected to a wifi access point to play it. And if you're not relatively close to it, you'll get a lot of "reconnecting to server" messages. I just think it's awesome that in between either deliveries or repairs at work I can complete a quest or two and continue on with my day. Hopefully they'll eventually create an mmo that unifies consoles, computers, and cell phones. [Edit] Oh yeah, it's $7 to buy and then there's something like a $1 or $2 monthly fee. Last edited by Bob The Mercenary; 05-14-2011 at 04:57 PM.