Is that asking too much of your free time ahead of the computer when you play wow? Could this be the best use of the Apple for wow players?
Blizzard's life-draining MMO World Of Warcraft has been spotted up and streaming to Apple's iPad. Now before you get all excited, this doesn't mean that it's been officially announced for iPad, it just means technology makes it do.
Some people say this is pretty maddening to play — WoW depends on a mouse and keyboard — but if thin clients get big enough, developers will start programming for iPad-based input, even for non-native games. As a reformed WoW addict, they hope to god that doesn’t happen. On the other hand, they think Gaikai is a game streaming service currently in beta. It would allow you to play games using a Flash client on any desktop and, apparently, a native client on the iPad. In theory, an application like this would allow any kind of game to be played in the iPhone OS without going through the App Store payment system, something that is not going to make people in Cupertino happy.
However, What you see here isn’t World of Warcraft streaming natively to the iPad, but rather WoW streamed through the Gaikai online gaming service, which allows you to play games within your browser using HTML5 and their server streaming technology. In other words, it’s a thin client.I know I can see alot of people complaining about streaming over the Ipad, but has anyone stopped for a second to see the irony in this? I am sure once Cupertino sees this there will be an update that blocks the streaming of Gaikai, at least until they switch to HTML5, h.2624, and other open source development.
"I read an article describing the iPad not as a netbook or a tablet but as a couchtop. And I would have to agree. If you want to lay back and get simple applications, email, and surf the web then the iPad is great. But a gaming machine it is not. There is not enough CPU/GPU power inside." A friend commented it in his blog.
Would WoW on iPad interest you or not?
Related: Cupertino is a suburban city in Santa Clara County, California, U.S., directly west of San Jose on the western edge of the Santa Clara Valleywith portions extending into the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains. The population was 50,546 at the time of the 2000 census.It is perhaps most known as home to the worldwide headquarters of Apple, Inc.
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