Re: Openfeint sees HD and Frontier as different games

[Gamesteve]

I follow you. So, I guess I don’t understand the value or use of Openfeint. From my (the user) perspective, all it does is keep track of meaningless trophies on a central server. These trophies don’t affect my gameplay in single player nor in multiplayer mode. Am I missing something?

If I am correct, then what Space Station could really use is a multiplayer mode that has both players suing the same set of upgrades so that you have a fair head-to-head competition.

Then, once that is enabled, it would be great to be able to have my game status stored on a central server so that I can play anywhere by simply logging in, and engage in multiplayer games suing the upgrades I have built up without having to rebuild them for every device I have.

I think the use case you may not have anticipated is that there are shared devices in a household. We have an iPad, and an iPod Touch that are common to all of us. If we want to sit down and play a head-to-head game of Space Station, we have to figure out which device we have earned what upgrades instead of just playing the game. If someone played mostly on the Touch, then they are stuck with that for multiplayer unless they take the time to re-earn all their upgrades on the iPad. So I am back to, wouldn’t it be great if all your status was stored on a central server? Maybe I’m missing something with the Openfeint.

-Steve