Comments on: MMO Industry, why aren’t you mobile yet?

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:11:57 +0000

And TibiaME is really great – that is how a mobile MMO should look and feel like – really worth a try.

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:11:20 +0000

There are actually quite a few real MMOs out for mobile phones already. TibiaME is the first one and has now been online for more than 5 years already…

By: QforQ

QforQ — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:35:32 +0000

That’s interesting…I’ve never heard of those :O

By: PekkaR

PekkaR — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:08:02 +0000

While it wasn’t your point, did you know mobile MMOs have been around for years already?

TibiaME since 2003: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibiame
Pocket Kingdom since 2004: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_Kingdom (only for n-gage, possibly closed?)

By: Fayth

Fayth — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:43:29 +0000

forgive me if I am beating a dead dog.I am very new to the blog thing and I know that you all must have hack all this stuff out a long time ago. BUT I got to start some where so here it goes…

The Agency , 38 Studios ,and any othere MMOs in the makeing could do this in a big way. I allso could see EVE useing a off-line hooks with your mobile phone.
never got into WOW so no idea.
EQ2,VG,SWG … would be limited to chats and playing mini games with your friends ingame.allso maybe check in ingame sells.
I could see them doing like mini games for your mobile phones and mobile devices where you could maybe do off-line quest and/or crafting. then when you log back into your MMO game what ever you won for doing the quest would be in the game. same thing for crafting. you could grined out your crafting skills off-line then sell all the stuff you made when you log back in game.

am I way off base? or is this all old news?

By: QforQ

QforQ — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:43:30 +0000

Nice, well that’s pretty exciting. I kind of thought you guys might be doing something but I wasn’t sure

By: Cuppycake

Cuppycake — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:21:34 +0000

“Is Raph Koster’s MetaPlace talking about this?”

Absolutely. All of our code is open sourced so that anyone can write a client. We have wiki documentation already helping people do this. So essentially, once someone writes a mobile client – we’ll have one. And since we work like the web does, and mobile phones are web-capable and gaining speed…a mobile client shouldn’t be too far off in the future.