They developed web-based WoW!!!!

[EGRO]

Saw on facebook that chinese gamers made web-based WoW







Is this possible? The pictures look so real.

Source:http://www.facebook.com/pages/2pcom/...478?ref=stream

[ViridianCC]

Real or not, I'm not putting my password in anything Chinese.

[Dragon9870]

Holy shit.

Would take a lot of time and resources to perfect, but that'd be pretty cool if it's actually possible. Doesn't seem too likely though methinks.

[dokhidamo]

I can tell it's low quality. But the biggest feat there was making a likely Java app that could interact with Blizz's servers.

[huth]

They might just be streaming the game.

[BeastmasterGuardian]

Is most likely a Java app that works with Private servers.

[User789]

Does it really matter when it is on a private server ?

[Congelatore]

This just in, every b.net account has been compromised.

More at 11.

[Korru]

Yes they did.

You put in your e-mail and password, choose your character, then watch as your character mysteriously moves by itself, sells its gear to the vendor, and sends all your gold to a player with a name you can't read.

[lordjust]

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Is this possible? The pictures look so real.

Yes it's possible. It's the same as Gaikai or OnLive. They have a server where the game runs and just stream it through an app to the browser. They use low quality settings in-game so that they can run as many clients simultaneously as possible. You can do the same thing with other programs. Just google remote PC access or something similar.

[thelordpsy]

It would be REALLY trivial to run a 640x480 WoW game client and hook in an app that streams the present buffer and interprets/redirects remote input. There are some US services that do something pretty similar. Effectively you don't need a fast graphics card or CPU, you just need a REALLY good network connection. I'd expect to see this sort of thing take off 5-10 years from now, but it's still in its infancy.

In this example of course, you're probably just throwing away your credentials.

[EGRO]

Yes it's possible. It's the same as Gaikai or OnLive. They have a server where the game runs and just stream it through an app to the browser. They use low quality settings in-game so that they can run as many clients simultaneously as possible. You can do the same thing with other programs. Just google remote PC access or something similar.

I don't actually understand the cloud technology, but the whole idea of running World of Warcraft client on a webpage is damn cool, the only thing I care is whether it would be laggy or not.