Sounds awful.

by uberfoop , Seattle-ish, Friday, March 08, 2013, 12:19 (4374 days ago) @ Cody Miller

I'm not against this on principle.

I'm not sure that I am, but the ways in which I can actually imagine it being implemented don't strike me as especially great. And the suggestions in this thread sort of exemplify that: if I'm playing through some awesome event in the game world, do I actually *want* some random non-present guy to cause a stage of the fight to not happen? Is it really all that awesome to break gameplay mechanics like radar so that someone can go fetch their phone and use it to repair the game?

Most of all, some of the things being suggested sound more than anything like minigamish things that really ought not require a separate platform. I might be more open to some of the stuff if the phone simply makes certain functionality accessible for people who don't have a console on hand as opposed to having that immediate gameplay-relevant functionality exclusively.