[suggestion] PDS grand strategy games on IOS/Android OS

[Johan]

...And then will begin the cycle where games will be dumbed down and stripped of features to cope with the less sophisticated operating systems like these. Worse, they would instead begin to focus on the arcade and casual market (no company ever successfully resisted this urge) and this would completely destroy the Paradox grand strategy franchise not just on those systems but on PC as well. And games will be built for iOS/Android first and then ported to PC later, instead of the other way around. That will result in bad ports and bad games.

Please no.

Why dumb it down if you make it for a tablet?

 

[Johan]

Tablets are just computers with touchscreen interfaces (and it's worth noting PDS games are hardly hardware hogs - I'd expect most PDS games could, in theory, run on most modern tablets were they made to run on iOS/Android, and a mouse could be plugged in). The challenge isn't in the hardware in terms of processing, but rather in the UI, because touch is less precise than a mouse (a finger covers more of the screen than a mouse pointer, and you can't see what's under the finger at the point of pressing it). Overcome the UI issues, and I can't see any reason why it wouldn't work (indeed, overcome the UI issues and I can't see why you couldn't transfer your game of EU4 or CK2 to tablet, take it on the road, then transfer it back to PC and keep playing ).

this