Oct 9
Getting Cocky
It must be awesome to work in an entertainment studio run by a rich sports star. You don’t have to worry about the economy, the release of your game’s real name is still months away, and yet you still get to do interviews about the stuff you’re working on.
I imagine that sounded sarcastic, but I’m honestly a little jealous. Still, Brett Close’s interview with the folks at WoW Insider today has me a … bit confused to be honest. See, they just bought up a newsletter service reporting on a competitor’s game. And they’re going to be giving us the service for free as an adjunct to their plans for their own game. Sounds okay … I guess.
But this is how Mr. Close starts off his discussion with the site:
Copernicus is an MMO, right? It’s a massively multiplayer game?
Correct. Not a standard MMO — it’s really what I would call a generation beyond anything that’s out there, so significantly different in a number of ways, but it would be a correct term to identify it as what you’d think an MMO would be.
Isn’t Copernicus a fantasy game? And that would be a generation beyond … whatnow?
3 comments3 Comments so far
If there’s one thing I learned from following WAR’s development over the past year is that people can make a lot of game-hyping statements (like the one above) but the proof is in the pudding.
@Snafzg – They don’t say stuff like that for us MMO players, they say it for investors :)
I agree with you, after the past year or so of releases mmo players have gotten to the point where they can almost pinpoint how far behind a studio is by the smell of its marketing spew.
I don’t see the problem. Yeah their game is fantasy, how does that not mean it’s a generation beyond what we call “mmos”. Books are fantasy, but they are NOT movies which I would consider a new generation of Fantasy. Single player Balder’s Gate games are fantasy but I think MMOs are a generation beyond that as well.
I’m pretty sure he is describing the game, not the genre. There isn’t anything wrong with “new” fantasy games.