Blizzard, one of the largest game producers in the world, is planning a possible porting of the famous World of Warcraft game to the iOS platform as well. At the moment World of Wacraft is played by 12 million gamers from all over the world, gamers who have to pay a monthly subscription to Blizzard to have access to the company's servers. Those from Eurogamer they talked with certain members of Blizzard who claim that the biggest challenge in porting this game to the iOS platform lies in changing the way the game is controlled to be compatible with touchscreen screens. From a graphical point of view, it would be quite simple to port the game, but the problem of changing the control system is the main impediment.
Everyone I know here has an iPhone or an iPad so we're huge fans of the hardware," he said. "If we could make the right game changes to make that work, it's something we'd be interested in. It's not something you're going to see in the next week or two, but it's the kind of thing we're always looking at. That's a really big topic. The one [issue] that comes to mind is that WOW is designed for use of a mouse and a keyboard and we haven't yet seen a console solution that lets us replicate it easily. I suspect that we would also want to own a lot more of the back-end than most console companies would be willing to let us have. Right now we're being pretty successful just supporting the PC and Macintosh. We'd love to do it if it ever made sense – I'm sure we would.
Greg Street, head of the team of designers at Blizzard, claims that in a few months his team could have a functional version of the game that could run on the iOS platform. If it will be possible to develop a version for iDevices, then those from Blizzard will have access to an application store from which they will certainly attract many fans of the game who will of course be willing to pay a monthly subscription to play on the servers the company. Until then, we have Order & Chaos from Gameloft, which is basically a clone of World of Warcraft.
There aren't a lot of sweeping class changes this time around, no-one was totally rebuilt since the Cataclysm launch. We had to adjust some things that didn't work out quite the way we had hoped and tweaked some numbers around. There are a few mechanics changes, but hopefully it won't feel too overwhelming for players logging in.
