Mobile Apps in gaming

[achtungexplosiv]

It's been a while since I last posted: life has been busy and my gaming has been predominantly Rift and Alchemy Genetics based, with a bit of Borderlands and Champions Online here and there, which gets boring to read about after a while. I failed to get interested in Star Wars: The Old Republic in any way despite the behemoth PR engine and the

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[quilluck]

The thing I find to be the biggest concern is the fact that if your mobile goes kapoof or gets stolen or whatever, you are, as you say, locked out from the game. And as has been the case in many MMOs as of late, getting any kind of support can take hours, even days from personal experience. But then, I am not sure there is a way to prevent that from occurring, sadly.

As for the extra bit of loot from apps, I don't see a huge problem with the Rift Mobile app. You can get a tiny bit of planarite and some other bits and pieces here and there. For the most part, I am sure there are people who end up with some epic crafting bits here and there, but I am fairly sure that the chance of getting such booty is a very, very rare occurrence. It would be nice to see access granted to users without the proper smartphone via a web-interface or something.

[achtungexplosiv]

The Rift Mobile app is a pertinent example. I have won a single item worth about 9 platinum, about 15 itmes that are worth ~2 platinum each but that I need, and a lot of planarite. Enough planarite to make a real difference to one character. OK so I was spending my scratchgame credits almost as soon as I got them so I haven't lost out on too many when the maximum stored cap of 6 is reached, but still. That's in under a week. If I played the artifacts game, there's some on offer that go for 30 platinum or so on the Icewatch auciton houses. Naturally if the supply jumps up from the apps, the cost will go down (as the recent opening of the AH to be cross-faction has shown with plummeting prices for many things) so it will lose it's edge over time, but during that phase those with the right smart device that otherwise would have absolutely no bearing on the game are profiting.

iPhone owners have been able to do that since about christmas. Nothing on the horizon yet for Windows phone or Blackberry users, or those without a smartphone at