Why is not there any decent MMORPG on tablets?

I think it will happen eventually, give it time. As is, a good MMO requires a real rig and lots of time, a tablet seems pretty intense. maybe a smaller mmo would do, but still really fun?

 

You are talking about the growth of computing power of tablets and thinking PCs are staying the same. While your tablet is getting more powerful, PCs are getting more powerful also.

As someone with a good amount of development experience, even porting simple PC games to mobile is difficult, it is more than just computing power which is significant, it is also the UI and controls. UI is a big issue, with the small screen, it is difficult to make things readable and clickable for everything that is required on a MMORPG. You would have to dumb-down the game to be a click-fest with very few abilities.

And just my opinion, there is not a big enough market of people who only have tablets and don´t have PCs to warrent the port costs and the customer service afterwards. If you port to tablets, then you open up a whole new can of worms for tech support and customer support.

Mostly it is just the controls though. I don´t think you could ever have 10-20 abilities that need to be used quickly and frequently and design it for a tablet.

 

Actually there are quite a few. Have you tried out the Dungeon Hunter games? They not only look great but can totally play them with friends as well.

 

Not an MMORPG but I guess it's close enough to it but I've been playing a MOBA on tablet called vainglory and it's great. Graphics are very well done and the controls feel very natural and not like you're compromising by giving up a mouse and keyboard. There's even a pro scene for it now.

 

Yeah, there are some decent mobas out there, and even something like Diablo, because they greatly limit your aresonal of skills you have down to usually two at a time.

To the OP, you missed my point about tablets vs PCs. If you are a developer making a PC MMORPG, you are targeting system specs that are probably a year away if you are making a game to launch in two years. You don´t build a MMORPG based around current system specs of most computers. Tablets are getting more powerful, but they are not closing the gap much.

And like I said, the amount of tablet-only people is limited.

Heck, even most console ports are terrible. It is very hard to take a MMORPG and condense it down to a UI that would work on a tablet. You would end up sacrificing a ton on your PC version.

 

Agreed. What I like about tablet MOBAs is that everyone who has a phone can come in and play a few games and be done with it which means there are lots of games being made for us and the wait times are usually very quick due to the large user base. I've gotten to play many genres in tablet MOBAs as well so it's not all just the diablo medieval type setting as there are also TF type clones etc.

 

Tablets/phones are still in the early phases of the game and controls can be a problem. Still, a game like Age of Empires II or something like that could easily work on this platform and I would love it.

 

The problem is the cap on tablets for the average person. They have plenty of processing power, but a lot of people are going to want more, and the accessories aren't there to support the game yet. On top of that, it would still have to be cross platform, because how many developers are going to produce a game that's tablet only? Basically just adds onto the developmental loads in terms of porting

 

Absolutely, if you have a MMORPG, and you go through all the design of it, and all the cost of it, you do not release it on a single platform. And there comes the problem of making a reall MMORPG that is playable on a tablet, it would suck on computers. And I would love to see numbers of people who own a tablet and do not own a PC? Yes, there aer a lot of tablets out there, but why do I want to play something as involved as a MMORPG on anything but my pc. Tablets are for hearthstone

 

I think the big problem is while Tablets or other Mobile devices can run an MMORPG, it might not be worth the effort to develop for the platform. Popular tablet games, at least in my experience, are designed to be easy to pick up and play for short bursts while an MMO is almost the exact opposite - They are games deisgned for people to play for hours at end.

 

Warspear Online can be played on tablets or phones. It is a full MMORPG. There is even is even a java version for the PC.

Platforms: Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Linux

 

I am pretty sure that it is just too unstable to have anything of significant worth being played on them I am sure that most machines might be okay, but then you are introducing multiple clients each eith their own, it might get messy.

 

Well I'm guessing that game developers can make a good MMORPG for a tablet, but since they would do that to earn money they would either go for pay-to-win type MMORPG or one with a monthly subscription. Even though there would be lots of people who would want to play, I think that wouldn't be enough to cover everything, they would end up shutting it down. Just my opinion though.