Any definition of Alpha relating to software builds I've found always mention they may still be waiting on features planned to be added, or to be finished.


However, use of cellphones for doing much with the game isn't that great of an idea just yet (at least in North America). User costs aren't nice, and something fairly massive that transfers a lot of data is only going to be good for the first month. ;) then they catch on just how much it costs and stop playing.


To get more suggestions on what sort of things you could do with the cellphones, we'll need to know more about what sort of game it really is, and how it plays.

As for how it plays just think your generic fantasy MMORPG. Costs of transfer are a huge problem which is why the messages sent and received have to be as small as possible. A live representation of an area would be horribly laggy and horribly expensive but things like looking in an auction house would only require simple queries and would be like viewing a webpage. Obviously the costs are the dev's problem but rather the cell phone plan you have some plans have unlimited internet transfer. Others you pay per Kilo byte (I have this really annoying if I accidentally hit the hotkey to the internet!)