Zone iPhone - How much is ACTUALLY zone?
 

I've been wondering for awhile- what about Zone iPhone actually links itself to Zone PC?

I can think of a few things, but for the most part, it's just incorporated many servers into one (Shangri-La, Bomy Island, Skills) and called it Zone iPhone, as it takes place in a futuristic realm. It's ditched the 8-dir weapon system and made it a full 360 degree turning system. If I'm right, didn't Zone PC actually have a 360 degree system once upon a time? Along with click shooting?

The character sprite layout that make Kingdoms and Zone somewhat stand out has been ditched for the oldschool sprites. While some of the enemies have the old zone character layout, I doubt that will last for long.

So, what makes Zone iPhone relevant to Zone PC? Some shared weapon sprites and a map or two with Zone PC tiles? That, to me, doesn't justify the right to reserve the title of "Zone iPhone." Even with the weapon tiles, it still has the ugly and blotchy bullets that are supposedly "lasers."

Codein once said that obviously the direction of Zone PC didn't work, so Zone iPhone would be taking a different direction. If you want to change a server the the point of making it almost unrecognizable to the parent, rename the damn thing.

Why not just take the current Zone PC, remaster it will iOS integration, then re-release for both PC and iOS? It makes no sense whatsoever to release a product that seems to have hierarchy to another product, but carries no relevance beyond one or two aspects.

My point is that if you want to make a server that is formed out of multiple past servers, change the damn name to something unique, rather than just taking a name of one of the servers and slapping it on.

Sorry for being such a negative nancy, it just burdens me to see this being carried out...

Zone iPhone hardly has any connections to Zone PC.

Zone PC never had 360 degree shooting, it had eight directional. It did have clicking, but had to abide by the same rules as keyboards.

Never knew that, that's just being lazy.

Thank you. iZone shouldn't be called what it is.

Codein doesn't know **** and can't handle talking to players, which is one the reasons he left Zone PC in his short span as manager of Zone PC and left his manager position at iZone. Despite what those idiots will say, Zone PC does work.

Zone PC is being shut down and replaced by the iOS version eventually. When however, is yet to be seen.

iZone shouldn't be what it's called.

Nobody said PC Zone didn't work, or at least i have never heard or said that. The content wasn't up to par hence the player count when it was active. We are still working to expand such features as you've stated.

iPhone maket revenue is grand i'm sure, hence the attention. That should explain alot.

You're telling me that for PC, this isn't a lot of players?

http://graalonline.com/community/g-f...0.85346500.jpg
http://graalonline.com/community/g-f...0.67519800.jpg

Look at the radar, that's an awful lot of players for a server "with content that isn't up to par," therefore I think we can render your statement as invalid.

What do you mean? I've tried to give iZone another chance to recover in relevance, but all it's done is spun further away.

I would also like to point out that Jester has said that Zone PC doesn't work at all too.

and this photo to add to Dylan's evidence.

http://statistics.graal.us/images/sc...600_image.jpeg

BS. Zone never has more than 0 players. Photoshopped

Well damn, you caught us in our plan!

it didnt, click to shoot was just bugged, it was basically 16 directions shooting and unbalanced the game slightly, it was fixed though, i believe.

the zone game play was unique and using the mouse to shoot system as standard means this zone can never possibly feel like pc zone.

not to me anyway.

And how old was that screenshot?

well witkonjin is playing there so its a good 6-7 years old, maybe more

Well if you want to have keyboard movement on touch screen, that just wont work :D

An online game is always in development and doesn't stay like it is. Zone started with unique characters, then they were replaced with Kingdoms characters, and now with the Classic style characters. We added a lot of content on the Zone iPhone server which was never available on Zone PC.

Could you not just replace keystrokes with virtual keys?

iZone is exactly how Stefan intended it to be.

Essentially iEra with a leveling system and "futuristic" content from other places like your mentioned.

Personally I'm impressed they could find a much worse and harder to read font than the one they used on iEra.

We're talking about when it was actually a good server.

I miss when zone had 200+ players

The last time Zone had 200 players was when all the other servers went down, not sure if we can do that often :p

if you shut down era and classic it would probably go to like 1k.

but zones specific play style was what drew its players in the first place.

obviously you cant have a readily accessible keyboard to play izone with of your touch devices, so that section of zone does not exist in izone, meaning very little of zone would come through on this izone.

but if your going to join izone to PC zone in the future, adding the ability to control it the same way you do now may be an idea, or maybe a single planet put in that is just original iricia for old hands to come and enjoy some nostalgia if the feeling arises.

i cant try izone for myself, but can tell from looking at it and hearing about it, that there is very little of the original zone within it.

zone is dead guys...this new iZone is sadly its only future. i can't call it zone, but it is what it is.

I've accepted this and decided to be annoying.

i have to agree with that, iZone is not Zone and will never be, rename the damn thing already. there's no similarities what so ever, to me.

It's still the same fun, just more players :)

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No

No it's not...

Doesnt mean it is no fun because you personally don't enjoy it :)

Not the point at all.

Of course.

its not the same fun, not for old hands.

Last time i check this is Zone 2nd attempt for the cell phone community i want to say i saw another cell phone game using zone graphics that stefan and unximad gave them permission to use pc zone graphics a few years back i cant remember what it was called thought.... but ya Zone try cell phone a few years back and failed
idk how u guys can say its a success when iera and iclassic is always almost 1k players all the time and IZone has a player count like Era PC. It might be me or u guys are like wtf ever but compare to other apps on apple and others games this is a failed project by the numbers. U Guys got to boost numbers

p.s Apple is the number one App store in the world so there's a big crowd

iZone gets around 120 players on average.

It's more than Era PC.