If there's one genre on mobile that's seen the least innovation, it's the MMORPG. While early examples, like Pocket Legends and Order and Chaos, proved that the genre could comfortably exist and thrive on the small screen, they didn't really take advantage of its unique properties, instead serving up a miniature version of what you were already playing on PC.
More recently, the likes of MU Origin and Lineage 2: Revolution presented an alternative vision. Here were two mobile-first MMORPGs, which understood that many of us don't have the time nor inclination to grind the hours away like we did as a kid. The solution? Autoplay. This nifty feature lets you kill countless monsters, collect the loot, and run a few dungeons with very little input.
At first, I was pretty taken with the idea. It still offered what I loved about MMORPGs: grind (yes, I do actually enjoy mindlessly butchering hundreds of monsters for incremental amounts of XP), gear, and grouping - the three Gs if you would. But, quite quickly, the whole experience grew sour around the same time as the money-grabbing became obvious.
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