If you're mooching wifi off the neighbours, or tethering data off your phone, worms is basically the only game you can play. Plus it's one of the easiest to pirate. Except it drops all the time. I've definitely been there. I guarantee not every household in India or China or whatever country W:A's next big activity explosion will be from has their own legitimate $40/month (in rupees or equivalent china dollars) internet subscription. Furthermore, internet connections are getting worse. Everyone is going mobile. There is a big wave of "cord cutting" for dedicated Internet connections in progress - why pay for both cell data and home internet access? People hardly buy laptops and desktops anymore. All the new mobile devices will be able to dual boot windows and android. Wine for android is coming too. WA will be played primarily on tablets with shitty little keyboard docks. Or at least tethered from mobile phones. Which, for the sake of the game surviving and growing, is probably a necessary evil.
I suspect W:A's current "lag" code does a lot more waiting than it needs to. If there was proper reconnection support, I doubt we'd still have those suspenseful 3 minute waits of lag. BTW there's always wkCyrusKick to get rid of annoying/lagging players.
It takes one disconnected player to ruin a game. You ever hear that statistic, that in a room of 20 people, there's a 50 percent chance two of them share a birthday? In a game of 4 or 6 players from all over the world there's a pretty good chance something bad will happen. I've disconnected from enough Worms games for a lifetime. Reconnect support is one of my most anticipated features.
