Why no Windows Phone
With products like Xamarin out there, that allow for much more efficient coding between platforms, why are "next gen"/top of the line games by EA not coming out for the windows phone. It's getting ...
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Funny that we complain Windows isn't available yet in ALL of games, it RARELY comes up. This is the first post, and judging by replies / contributors its obvious the Windows mobile device is a VERY small niche.
Therefore like others have said it's NOT worth developing for less than 5% of the market. Go to ANY game site, I bet you won't find comments asking about Windows mobile there either, so no one is asking "where are games for Windows mobile" because no one cares..
I personally had Windows mobile (aka, Windows CE, pocket PC, et. al) for YEARS, it's not new, been around since the time of the Palm Pilot, remember that? Yeah didn't think so. So it's been a long time (1998). I finally got tired of waiting for what apparently will NEVER happen..
Yeah Windows mobile market is growing yea it will be here for years to come, but decision has ALREADY been made by developers its not worth a SMALL group of people to support, it's just not. Same reason commercial games are not on Linux either, Blizzard arguably the largest game developer in the world (not knocking EA) but THEY will not support Linux, why? Because the same reason, too fragmented and too small of a niche.. numbers will not add up.
Think about it, lets say there are 5 million windows mobile users. How many people play SWG on their phone? There are a lot of us, but I am the *ONLY* person I know personally (and I know a bunch of people with phones, I support 2000 people world wide) not a SINGLE person plays SWG..
so lets say that out of 93% of ALL phones in the world lets say 1 million people are playing, what is that 0.1%?
So 0.1% of 5 million is roughly 5,000 that MIGHT play the game.. and that's a really big IF. If EA had only 5,000 users they would be out of business..
So supporting such a small group of people which to individuals looks like a BIG number, to a company it's not. World of warcraft has over 7 million users.. playing on Windows and MAC but not Linux, when you have people willing to buy a platform to play their game.. it's quite clear they don't NEED to support the 5% that are left out.
Buy the device WHERE you can play the game.. Android or iOS, period. Windows Mobile users are simply few and far between.. a better question would be why can't we play SWG on Xbox, or PS.. or Windows desktop? those are pretty big.. again..
EA made the decision they wanted this game to be MOBILE apparently.. but NOT on Windows mobile or Blackberry, because you don't exist.. quite literally.
Therefore like others have said it's NOT worth developing for less than 5% of the market. Go to ANY game site, I bet you won't find comments asking about Windows mobile there either, so no one is asking "where are games for Windows mobile" because no one cares..
I personally had Windows mobile (aka, Windows CE, pocket PC, et. al) for YEARS, it's not new, been around since the time of the Palm Pilot, remember that? Yeah didn't think so. So it's been a long time (1998). I finally got tired of waiting for what apparently will NEVER happen..
Yeah Windows mobile market is growing yea it will be here for years to come, but decision has ALREADY been made by developers its not worth a SMALL group of people to support, it's just not. Same reason commercial games are not on Linux either, Blizzard arguably the largest game developer in the world (not knocking EA) but THEY will not support Linux, why? Because the same reason, too fragmented and too small of a niche.. numbers will not add up.
Think about it, lets say there are 5 million windows mobile users. How many people play SWG on their phone? There are a lot of us, but I am the *ONLY* person I know personally (and I know a bunch of people with phones, I support 2000 people world wide) not a SINGLE person plays SWG..
so lets say that out of 93% of ALL phones in the world lets say 1 million people are playing, what is that 0.1%?
So 0.1% of 5 million is roughly 5,000 that MIGHT play the game.. and that's a really big IF. If EA had only 5,000 users they would be out of business..
So supporting such a small group of people which to individuals looks like a BIG number, to a company it's not. World of warcraft has over 7 million users.. playing on Windows and MAC but not Linux, when you have people willing to buy a platform to play their game.. it's quite clear they don't NEED to support the 5% that are left out.
Buy the device WHERE you can play the game.. Android or iOS, period. Windows Mobile users are simply few and far between.. a better question would be why can't we play SWG on Xbox, or PS.. or Windows desktop? those are pretty big.. again..
EA made the decision they wanted this game to be MOBILE apparently.. but NOT on Windows mobile or Blackberry, because you don't exist.. quite literally.
