It seems incredible, but also World of Warcraft could run on iPad in the near future. This is thanks to Gaikai, bringing the famous Blizzard MMORPG on iPad via streaming. A specific app for World of Warcraft was not developed: the game should be played in fact via browser using HTML5.
Gaikai is actually a new approach to online gaming. In the cloud computing era, when photos, videos, documents, email and more are manageable online, it becomes very archaic having heavy clients to play online games. Gaikai hosts games in its servers to make them available via streaming at any computer connected to the Internet. Its technology is still experimental, but those interested can sign up as beta testers from this page.
So all MMORPGs could be played online using this technology, not only on the iPad, but also on any iPhone and smartphones that support a browser. All this stuff will delight many World of Warcraft addicted, although some questions remain:
- Will Apple allow this, since you can play WoW and other games without having to pass through the App Store?
- Will World of Warcaft really be playable via web browser?
Especially the second question puzzles us: it is not enough that World of Warcraft runs on iPad, tha game should also be playble and satisfying. And on the Internet there is only a picture of World of Wacraft on iPad, but no videos yet. We'll see :-)
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