World of Warcraft on iPhone? You mean that button mashing MMO that you need countless add-ons for just to give quick access to your purified water, fried chicken, collection of Tauren pr0n, mining maps and gimp masks?
So say MacRumours:
While there have been sketchy rumors in the past that [World of Warcraft] could find its way to the iPhone, the video seems believable as it shows the game running within the Vollee client application. Vollee is a company that develops software to allow mobile 3G phones to play CPU intensive PC applications over the network. Their first demonstration in 2008 showed Second Life on a mobile device. The software works by essentially streaming video of the game rather than rendering it by the handset itself:
The company?s VolleeX engine adapts applications for screen size and key layout, and then streams the original application to mobile devices. Vollee?s interactive video streaming platform optimizes compression to minimize bandwidth requirements and also leverages the 3G mobile networks in such a way that gamers can easily and smoothly navigate virtual worlds. Vollee?s technology is also extensible to fast paced, high quality video games previously impossible on mobile.
But, but, but, there are just too many buttons needed! World of Warcraft is buttons. The iPhone, sans buttons. How can you control a character when you have no buttons?
Am I getting bogged down in interface prejudice, could it work? Should there be a truly portable option for World of Warcraft addicts? Do you want them wandering into lines of traffic?
Hit the link to watch the video.
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