It calls to mind an old quote, attributed to Michelangelo, about how he created his statue of David: "It's easy. We must "mobilise" our games by simplifying only those elements that are not essential to the experience. The only path to success is to constantly strive for balance between the 'big experience' and the player's need to consume that experience in small slices.
It's a great game, but not perfectly suited to the mobile platforms Balancing the "big experience" and the need for small slices
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Vainglory attempts to fully recreate the PC MOBA experience, with high-end graphics and relatively long sessions. The problem with this approach is clear: no matter how high quality the game, it will probably end up in the hands of an entirely different audience, while the intended audience will still be waiting for the game they want. The alternative approach is to remove or oversimplify everything, leaving only the "spirit of the game." This sentiment can be read over and over in myriad press releases. Simply emulating PC gameplay probably won't work out well, and that may be the reason why Super Evil Megacorp's Vainglory took so long to get traction in the market. And let's face it, if these conditions are met, the average player would probably prefer to open their laptop or fire up a console, not play the game on a smartphone.
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If we made a full port of a big PC game to mobile we might reach this audience, but they'll only be able to play sitting on the couch or at a table, with a good wifi connection, with lots of free time to spare. We know what these gamers want, and the platform on which they would prefer to play: large-scale PC gameplay on mobile phones, catching a few minutes here and there. This subset of gamers is growing each and every year, and more and more developers want to capture the market they have created. They're the same gamers they were before, but they simply no longer have time in their busy lives to play those games.
These players now have kids, other hobbies and full-time jobs.
There is a treasure in the mobile market, one that so far no one has managed to claim: a large audience of PC players who grew up playing large-scale online games: first-person shooters, MMORPGs, MOBAs, and so on.
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