I’ve talked before about MMORPGs coming to cellphones (with another new offering in development I’ll be talking about later this week), but this is a new twist on this idea…from Blizzard, no less. In an interview with MTV (“We used to play music videos. No, really!”), Blizzard co-founder Frank Pearce talked about World of Warcraft access from mobile devices:

“…We’re going to have to look at ways to use the mobile device to enhance their [players] World of Warcraft experience. We’ll see what kind of applications we can come up with”

Before you envision attending your guild’s high-end raid while also listening to your nine year old mangle “Hot Crossed Buns” at their piano recital, he’s not talking about actually playing WoW on your cell phone.

“So as an example, one thing I think would be really cool — and whether we’re going to be able to do this, I don’t know, but it would be really cool — is if we could have a client on your mobile device like that that hooks you into your guild chat in the game. That would be really cool. Or the ability to view your in-game mail or view your in-game auctions. We probably wouldn’t allow you to actually buy or sell via the mobile device, but you could certainly monitor.”

That’s a nice idea, but really…does this mean we’ll hear stories of “Well, Stan, since you seem to be more interested in your cell phone than today’s lesson, why don’t you come up to the front of the room and read your guild chat out loud?” in the news?

It’s only a few steps beyond that before you’re staying after school writing “I will not be 133t in class” one hundred times on the blackboard. Of course, if you’re lucky, your teacher plays WoW as well, and you can get out of it by mailing them an epic.

But if they hold out for legendary, I’d just write the lines.

Tags: cell phone, games, mmo, mmorpg, World of Warcraft