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Last week during a press demonstration, Electronic Arts showcased multiplayer in Scrabble ($9.99), which will be available in an upcoming update this fall. As it turned out, it’s for local Wi-Fi only, not online as most people were hoping. After all, if it’s only for local Wi-Fi, you’d be better off playing the actual board game.
EA blames Apple for this disappointment, saying that they haven’t made this ability available yet. Which is likely why some developers may have to resort to middleware, such as the recently announced Neutron from Exit Games.
Suck. :(
I was waiting for online multi to buy this.
[...] FingerGaming reports that EA’s Scrabble, which they showed off last week during a press demonstration, will only have a local Wi-Fi mode. When Electronic Arts announced the game for Apple’s iPhone many gamers hoped that this addictive board game would have an online multiplayer mode. According to EA it’s Apple’s fault that they can’t put an online mode in Scrabble because they haven’t made this ability yet. Because Apple doesn’t have the ability for online gaming yet developers are using other tools such as Neutron from Exit Games. [...]