"I would love to believe [Jagex founders] Andrew and Paul Gower
could see in the future and saw that at 16 years' time cellular would be
what it is now and that they chose click and point mechanic because it
could lend itself well to phones,"
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says McClarty. "Happily those two things have aligned and actually
the conventional point and click on that we've needed on PC does
instantly lend itself to click and point on your finger, which is
fantastic.
"The match itself will have all of the content that
you can play PC. The biggest change is it is just a really top level UX
and UI in terms of the menu, just to match that size of screen. However,
the intention is to get an almost absolute comparable version of
everything you can do on PC." RuneScape's mobile release follows in the
footsteps of some of the greatest MMORPGs in Asia that have made similar
leaps from PC to mobile.
Netmarble's Lineage 2: Revolution
managed to successful reimagine the hugely successful Lineage PC name
into a mobile blockbuster -- but perhaps more applicable is NCSoft's own
Lineage M, a direct port of one of the most successful games in the
region.It's worked well for NCSoft -- because its cellular release
Lineage M has become the number one leading grosser in South Korea.
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2: Revolution meanwhile spends all its time at second place since
Lineage M's launching, though the prior match had a spectacular
beginning to life generating $176 million in its initial month.There's
no promise of victory for RuneScape from the West, but it reveals there
might be desire out of fans past and current in a cell launch, and it
lowers the barrier for entry to new players.
"We certainly think
there's a growing trend that we can see in the Eastern territories like
China where conventional MMOs are being brought from the PC onto
mobile," says McClarty, referencing NetEase's Fantasy Westward Journey,
which has yet to really kick off in the West but has stormed the top
grossing charts in China. "We believe that RuneScape is one of the
biggest free-to-play games of its type and we are the very first Western
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MMORPG coming into mobile that can maybe crack that for the West."Lately
there have been many reports of Venezuelans"Gold Farming" on a MMORPG
called Runescape. Recent reports clarify that in-game farmers are
selling paintings for bitcoin to create a living. The company model
began trending in China where gamers get in-game currencies or items and
later sell them for"real money". In 2009 it had been estimated that
over 1 million gold farmers were based out of China, but in-game gold
farming also happens all over the world. Because of the secrecy, it is
difficult to find a precise figure on how much earnings gold farming
brings in, but it was estimated to be about USD $300 million in 2008.
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