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Phone App Integration
What's the general consensus on Phone Apps in MMOs? Last I played World of Warcraft they had a Phone App you could run quests in and I believe it was based around your NPC followers or what-not (I prolly sound like a damn guppy) but was/is it much of a hit? Are other games leaning towards them, and any thoughts if Intrepid might integrate other platforms to experience Verra?
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If the app allowed you access to the store, a character creator, a freehold designer, or the ability to 'improve' your guild I would be down. Mostly because those are things a character can always do in safety. By that logic, anything a player could do at their freehold (assuming freehold is set up to do such things) I would be okay with (except during sieges).
I'm old school though and don't understand the necessity to have access to the game if you are not playing the full game.
I could see it hooking in to the market - though I would think it would have to be only to view rather than buy.
Part of the reason for this is because the market is so segmented, with each node having it's own (barring economic metropolis). I also don't see Ashes having any facility to purchase from a market other than your character physically being at that specific market - so buying on a mobile app doesn't really fit.
Same with character interactions like trading and such. Moving items around Verra is a massive part of the game. If you are trading an item with a character, the two characters need to be physically in the same location at the same time - and that doesn't work if one of the characters isn't logged in to the game.
To me, a mobile app is mostly about chat and server events like sieges.
I believe the concept is great but I wouldn't endorse XP gain through an app, with crafting being the exception. Community interaction through an app would be welcomed, things like tavern games or character editing like appearance or cosmetics/feeding your pets or mounts etc.
I meant the cosmetics cash shop, not an in game character shop, not that you were indicating that but I didn't specify.
I didn't think about the shops being node specific for the most part. I would say being able to check the nodes market based on where the character you chose has citizenship would be cool. I would be against being able to look at a global market or check prices in multiple nodes.
I guess one way to prevent logging into alts with citizenship in multiple nodes would be to have the app only connectable to a single character at a time with a long cool down between checking the markets.
Might be easier to avoid app access to any in game stores completely.
I may be wrong, but I believe they are making it so all characters on an account (that are on the same server) have to be citizens of the same node.
I loved the Neverwinter app for when I was at work. It was great.
Correct all characters on the same SERVER must be citizens of the same node. Obviously alts on different servers can be citizens of a single node on their server.
Though, I would assume, whatever guild I am end up in will communicate this over discord or whatever.
Though, I guess live guild game chat within the game would still be cool to join in on.
Okay, I just inadvertently convinced myself that I want guild chat in a mobile app.
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