NOT for PPC anymore.....Surprise

Captmoocow

This letter was posted on the offiacl SoL forum 8-21-08

Dear Shadow of Legend players:





Thank you all for your continued support to Shadow of Legend (SOL), our 2D cross-platform MMORPG that proved the concept that smartphones can coexist with PCs as a serious online gaming platform. Since starting SOL  beta test in April 2007, we have seen tremendous response from both the MMOPRG community and the mobile gaming community.  Players from all around the world joined our beta test and provided a huge amount of valuable inputs that helped us make SOL a much better game than it was first released to public.  We value everyone’s input very much and we will continue to do our best to improve SOL.







As we added more content to make SOL a better game, we had realized that in order to make it competitive on PC, we would have to migrate to a 3D graphics engine, instead of the existing 2D one.  Therefore, we had decided to develop a 2.5D version of SOL that is based on 3D graphics technology.  The 2.5D version will have much better character customization features, better animations, the capability to zoom in/out, a reduced client size, as well as many other important improvements.  Overall, it will provide SOL players a much more enjoyable gaming experience.







However, as we started porting this version to the mobile platform, we found out that the number of mobile devices that could provide the kind of 3D graphics capabilities we need is quite limited.  As the result, at this time it is unlikely we can have a 2.5D cross-platform version that is capable of supporting a significant number of mobile devices.  Based on this observation, we decided to temporarily suspend the development of the mobile version till we see better 3D graphics support on popular mobile devices.  







With the fast technological improvement in the mobile industry and the advent of truly innovative devices like the 3G iPhone, we remain very confident in the future of mobile online gaming.  We believe we will be able to resume the development of the mobile version of our games soon and we will let you know first hand when that happens.







Thank you again for your support.  We hope you enjoy our upcoming 2.5D version of SOL.





SOL Team

 

I doubt anyone is surprised that they ditched the PPC version concidering that is hasen't worked in so long I have forgotten!  5-6+? months.

 

Good luck smartcell.  your going to need it

Zoowey

I'm surprised SmartCell, or anyone, would expect that a 2D or 2.5D, whatever the hell that is, engine is going to be competitive with major games like WoW or Warhammer. Honestly, mixing cheap mobile underpowered devices with the monstrous computer, someones gonna get owned... A cheap $300 computer is some million times faster than the fastest mobile device (Apple 3G iPhone) scientifically speaking.