Booyah “Life” MMO
Monday, July 27th, 2009
Looks like some Blizzard refugees have decided to bring an MMO to the iPhone that works based on the things you do in real-life.
The real question is, who cares? iMob and its developer’s various cookie-cutter clones created to mint money from unsuspecting non-MMOGers don’t really count in my mind as real MMOGs as they really require little effort and everything is geared towards you making the creators money (if you don’t bring other people in–ponzi-scheme-style–or outlay cash for respect or whatever points, then don’t bother playing as you won’t be able to do anything).
Hand over your money!
These developers need to get a grip…the game is there to ENTERTAIN players and, in ideal circumstances, allow those people to escape their lives for a bit. If we wanted accounting apps (iMob), we’d get a fucking calculator and go to town on it pull square roots of 1023913. We want to be able to do three basic things:
- Engage with other players in PvP or Co-Op gameplay
- Maintain a character with some manner of rpg stylings (stats, achievements, something)
- Have fucking fun!
Supposedly, Booyah (yes the company’s got the same name, just to make things confusing) is planning for additional features and enhancements to add to the game like using the iPhones motion sensors and add avatar interaction (a game with no avatar interaction sounds more like a forum). What I find funny is the addition of virtual money is seen as a feature benefiting players.
Jeez, these guys need to realize that WoW isn’t popular because we can spend our money better. It’s popular because everyone’s on it (can’t discount the network effect) but also because it was immersive and had some engaging parts as well. The environments were well-crafted and the endgame PvP gave people a reason to play after they reached the level cap because it became a multiplayer FPS-like game.
Time will tell if they’ll hit some sort of threshold or make the game cute enough to drag in a ton of women so that all the men will join just to try to hit on said women. Gotta love human nature.
Stay tuned…we’re gonna take it for a spin and see how honorable we can be.
g afk
