That actually sounds pretty good, especially if you're a MMO raider..no more pesky bio/sandwich breaks ;P
Lawyers can get up to some really weird shit, I haven't actually read the EULA, and even if I had I doubt I'd understand the legalese therein; but it's pretty hard to imagine anybody would stop a guy who paid for a game, ran it on a PC with legal Windows; but instead of using his Mouse/Keyboard and Monitor he used his iPad's touchscreen as monitor/keyboard/mouse.Fred Wester said something about getting some Paradox games on the iPad, but I guess it's legit to do so, as long as it doesn't blow the EULA. I don't own an Apple device, but thought I'd say that.
Personally I think the iPad is a useless platform for pc based games, given the resolution restrictions, keyboard and connectivity issues.
I like the comfort of playing serious games on my pc at my pc with all it has to offer.
Actually your monitor resolution is inferior to the iPad: FYI the iPad that came out last march has a resolution of 2048 by 1536 pixels.
At the risk of sounding like adding fuel to the flames, I'm actually quite curious how CK2 will run on a next gen W8 tablet.
Failing that, some kind of cloud-save solution so I can continue the game between screens.
Especially considering they compress down to a mere fraction of that. Would be interesting to see an option to save your games compressed. The zlib and xz libraries are both open source so no charge to add them to the executable.Cloud saving Paradox games is not really feasible until they implement compression to their save games. I couldn't imagine constantly uploading a 50 MB save file every year of the game.
The resolution is not the problem. No tablet has anything like the CPU or GPU power to handle the sheer amount of data in EU3 or CK2. I give it at least 3 years, more like 5, before current apps like that can be handled on a tablet.Actually your monitor resolution is inferior to the iPad: FYI the iPad that came out last march has a resolution of 2048 by 1536 pixels.
Implying 2560x1600 and higher monitors haven't been around for years.
The resolution is not the problem. No tablet has anything like the CPU or GPU power to handle the sheer amount of data in EU3 or CK2. I give it at least 3 years, more like 5, before current apps like that can be handled on a tablet.
I'm sure you have data to support this claim.
However, I think you may underestimate the power of mobile cpus and gpus (ARM, PowerVR...) and optimization: have you seen what the Playstation Vita is capable of, for example?
Implying 2560x1600 and higher monitors haven't been around for years.