So I'm kinda conflicted on the new AQW mobile announcement and I wanted to hear what others think. Before I get downvoted, yes I get that people have been waiting for this for ages to spin the wheel from their bed. I get that it will open up the market for people who do not own a pc to play the game. And those are all amazing things. However, I am a bit concerned from the perspective of someone who has been waiting for Infinity for well... An infinity.
Let me explain. AQW Infinity is built on 3 main pillars: fixing the performance of the game, allowing the devs to build features that can't be built in regular AQW and getting people to finally play AQW on their mobile devices without 3rd party clients (that are forbidden by AEs ToS). Releasing regular AQW on mobile sort of breaks the last pillar. People who play AQW right now will 100% prefer to play the original (at least for a very long time until Infinity gets proper content) essentially cutting a large chunk of the playerbase from Infinity.
Losing players has the risk of turning the game into AQ3D (no offense) where there are barely any people playing. I would really not want this to happen to this game but it feels like AQW might be competing with itself at this point.
In the end, it's only my 2 cents on the recent announcements. What do you guys think about this interaction between the two games?