To the surprise of few, the impact it has reached Cloud inside Microsoft it’s amazing. The area where Satya Nadella grew up within the Redmond Giant is now one of the most productive areas and this affects other areas. We now know that Mainframe Industries, a Finnish studio, works on an MMO called PaxDei.
PaxDei, an MMO designed for xCloud
This whole story started with Jez corden on the Xbox Two podcast. The editor of Windows Central aware of multiple rumors and news indicated that it was possible that Mainframe Industries I was working on a cloud MMO for Xbox, but I had no more information.
This precipitated another of the industry experts, Jeff Grub of VentureBeat, reveal more information about the game. This would further expand the Xbox exclusives list with a new title.
This game called PaxDei it would be an MMO (like New World, the game that Amazon Studios has just launched) that would be adapted depending on how we access the game. This name has been registered as an intellectual property of Mainframe Industries since June of this year.
Microsoft and Mainframe hope to establish a framework for “better practices” for games regardless of device using Pax Dei, adapt your user experience to cater for the device used to access the game. Grubb offers examples in his article, noting that gamers on a phone may want to do more simplistic tasks like gathering resources or managing crafting, while gamers on a console or PC may access more complex game elements. , like combat and raids.
This would not be the first game to have this type of mechanics, in the past World of Warcraft had already implemented them. But it can be a perfect combination to combine our smartphone with our console and get the most out of it.