Blizzard exploring World of Warcraft on iPhone

This article doesnt at any point mention Iphones, infact they seem to be rather insistent on the term "handheld device". Blizzard have always supported IOS and microsoft, i think this is a misnomer by the editor of this article.

@-Unreal- All I meant was that it *could* run on a smartphone if you only buy the base game, without any enhancements. I'm fully aware that the graphics have been enhanced since release. Either way, I'm not a MMO gamer, so I'm not interested in playing it on any platform.

I'd imagine tablets and phones have enough power to run a game like WoW these days, or close to it. The interface would be the hardest to translate.

Now the creepy people will once again walk in the daylight.

Wow has broken up so many relationships I imagine people will be getting fired from work getting caught playing wow on their iPhone or iPad.

Sorry if some of us think Pandaria looks like a fun change of pace.

Capitalism Speaks now.

wtf? iPad maybe, but iPhone?

On the... iphone? Wha- I'm not- *sigh*

@Sevenizz Oh sorry about that did i say something you didnt like about your addiction that made you angry? Cry more :D

WOW on phones would cause so many accidents. People think texting while driving is bad, just wait until people start playing WOW while driving :o

Oooh God please Noooo! Do I really wanna see all those pale faced virgins in public? Let them remain in their mother's basement.

@pelvist I don't understand people like you. It's just a title of an expansion and a playable race. Are you that violence driven that words such as cataclysm, burning, or wrath can only please you?

Wouldn't be great if they make wow in iphone/ipads. I'd much rather have it on the PSVita. I prefer the physical controls

Cool imagine all those peoples batteries running out a few hours into a guild raid. Great idea Bliz, what ever will you think of next, maybe an expantion with kung fu pandas in it? Oh wait you already did that... I imagine this will end up being about as popular as Everquest was on the PS2.

Raspberry.

@THA-TODD-BEAST As opposed to stopping and not releasing anything new in the game to its 10+ million players. You would make a great business man.

@CeeN11 Which dead horse? The iPhone 4 which sells truckloads or the game which has been steamrolling every other MMO to be released over the past 7+ years and grow to 12 million paying customers and maintain an outstanding number throughout its lifetime? Or maybe you mean WoW on the iPhone in general as an idea. If it's the later then I can agree. If it's the former, then your argument's been proven wrong.

@Hurvl WoW has a 7 and a half year old graphics ENGINE. At it's core. The game has been extensively updated since release. If you can't tell that from screenshots and videos, you should think about getting a new prescription.

@ahpuck Stuffing something on a mobile device isn't exactly ground breaking imagination... Not that it's a bad idea, tons of casual gamers play it, probably a lot of the same people that enjoy angry birds, should keep them happy and allow another way to spend their whole day playing wow.

It comforts me to know must of you will NEVER work as game developers, with your lack of imagination and forward I can't imagine what awful games you would make if given the chance. No one moved the gaming world by saying, oh, this wouldn't work on this platform.

Mobile phones are getting so high tech that they could probably run WoW's seven-and-a-half year old graphics. I like that they emphasize that PC and Mac are their bread and butter, if nothing else to squash paranoid gamers fear of consolization or bad ports.

Any crappy ideas that Blizzard have can be forgiven at the moment, Including this one, since Diablo 3 is here soon :) after that id tread carefully on the moronic ideas they come up with

Yea, would be fun to play on a 3.5 inch widescreen. Not to mention the price of iphone. Noot to mention, its WoW we're talking about.

Keep beating that dead horse.

Blizzard should make a rpg not mmo rpg,or hack and slah rpg(diablo 3 looks good) if for once Blizzard would concentrate on a single player only game it would be a massive hit(more then what skyrim did 12 mil copies so far)

Instead of focusing attention on stupid iphone apps, Blizz should turn its attention to creating a brand new mmo juggernaut, that reinvents the whole genre. Otherwise they are going to start to look like stale bread trying to drive the wow project onto other outlets. If Guild Wars 2 and Elder Scrolls get their mmo projects right, wow will get damaged.

They should use mobile to rethink the lame and extremely boring professions that help you build up the money in the game. If you could have small mini-games that allow you to create coin on mobile devices I could see that being a big winner. When I'm at my PC I want the action, fighting, and most often go over to PvP. But when I'm on the go playing a little app that could generate a bit of coin would be a nice compliment to WoW. Anything to keep me from having to waste time doing boring professions on my PC when I could be doing something fun. This could also help perhaps cut down on some of the gold buying if there were ways people could more easily tap into the economy away from the PC. I think the entire economic model in WoW is very outdated and just hasn't kept up with many of the other improvements over the year.

I could see people doing things like fishing on a smartphone. If you have a few minutes while you're waiting, I could see throwing a few casts. Being able to fill in spare minutes here and there with those grindy tasks would definitely make them less tedious. But then the question is how do you travel to a fish area? You certainly can't have access to the dozens and dozens of skills in each class's massively over-bloated skill set.

I think it could be alright if they figure out a cool way to do some of the professions on mobile devices. Not like doing the professions on the PC/Mac is any sort of exciting gameplay experience as it is. Last few characters I've leveled up with friends I haven't even done them. I'd rather be broke as dirt than grind out the professions. Would be kind of neat if you could do some fun kind of mini-games of sorts when you are on the go to make gold so that you can spend your time at the PC playing the content that is actually fun. Honestly... WoW would be 10 times better if they would create some servers with more difficult questing and dungeons. Aside from PvP, WoW is pretty much a cakewalk.

please blizzard stop making this crappy MMRPG and get warcraft where it belong to the strategy-rpg realm i want to know what happen to the lich king, to the demon hunter on an strategy game, not a crappy game with unlimited boring quests and really slow pace

@argetlam00 wth?? Kid? I'm 20 with a job in the federal government.???lolol first of all. who cares??or what has that do to with anything? stop living a lie and get a life kid lol "i have a job in federal govermment" lol and im the fool . thanks for the laugh ing lol

Why put it on iPhone? Shoot, I don't even own a cell phone (takes too much money away from my computer fund to be useful)!

Well kiss your social life completely good bye WoW gamers

@Barrakas21 Kid? I'm 20 with a job in the federal government. I think its you who needs to check your facts. Stop making yourself look like a fool. Your immaturity is shown in your hostile reaction.

D.ude I.t's A.lready B.een L.ong O.verdue Blizz...put your phones down and GET BACK TO WORK!

That would be a great second wind for the game. They would have to drop the subscription model though. At least make it a ton cheaper (like $1/month). Quite honestly it's a pretty old game by now and isn't worth the price anymore.

I said this would be a cool idea, too bad I don't play it anymore...

so many people own iphone this is not surprising, and many developers will explore this opportunity with many potential customers

Passed on PC, I'll pass on the iPhone.

personally I am not a fan of mobile gaming, after experiencing gaming on PC and Consoles, mobile gaming to me is just lame

It certainly is possible. Order and Chaos online is a pretty decent WoW clone on iOS. But I don't know if I could see myself paying $15 a month to play this on an iphone, WoW or not.

fun

"blizzard explores 'never making another original idea'!"

hardcore WoW players end up with custom designed keyboards that have 40 hotkeys. how the flying hell is a touch screen going to work for that? i also love how they wont do it until its "decent". dont these kind of announcements get scanned by PR guys to make everything sound overwhelmingly positive? words like "decent" almost always get replaced with things like "up to blizzard's high standard of quality". so is it good that they are talking more candidly? or does it mean our standards have fallen so low they dont feel the need to whisper sweet nothings to us anymore? probably reading too much into it, but public statements do go through a disgusting amount of review and rewrites to make sure theyre as inoffensive as possible.

WHAT?

You know I kind of like the idea of a portable WoW say if they restrict it to Vanilla and Burning Crusade if you want to access Lich king and up do it from a computer.

@argetlam00 first of all..bro??you must be 10 second check your facts before calling others ignorant stupid kid so go play wow before your bedtime

That game is getting worse and worse, now I can continue to ignore the game that USED to be good on my mobile! I can't even imagine how bad this would be...