Tag Archives: iMob Online

Giving Up on iMob Online

by on February 18th, 2009 at 12:07 pm

I’ve been playing iMob Online less and less lately, as the sheer scale of the cheating in the game is demoralizing. Today I’ve finally deleted the app – as it seems pointless to carry on when the cheaters have clearly ruined the game for anyone who is playing ‘straight’. For …

iMob Online Updated, Running Better Than Ever

by on February 6th, 2009 at 10:45 am

I recently posted about iMob Online and how it was having all sorts of problems, and how the game had become virtually unplayable for me. I had got to the point where I was considering deleting the app if fixes and performance improvements didn’t come along quickly. Well, iMob got …

iMob Online – Going from Weakness to Weakness

by on January 28th, 2009 at 11:43 am

iMob Online – one of the first online MMORPG games for the iPhone – is continuing to have problems, and (at least for me) even greater ones of late, making the game virtually unplayable. It has had chronic connection problems over the last 10 days or so – including an …

iMob Online Knocking Other Servers Offline, Breaking Other Apps?

by on January 22nd, 2009 at 6:08 pm

Apparently iMob Online’s problems with scaling are not just affecting the app itself anymore, but now a shared Geo-location server used by many iPhone apps has effectively been the victim of a (probably unintentional) DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service Attack) by iMob as well. Here’s a recent forum entry from …

iMob Online = Online MMORPG for iPhone Is Fun, When It’s Working

by on January 20th, 2009 at 3:03 pm

I’ve been playing iMob Online – described as “the first FREE online massively multi player mob game for the iPhone and iPod Touch” – quite a bit over the last few days, and enjoying it when it’s working properly. The game has a sort of Goodfellas or Sopranos theme to …