General Discussion

At NY Comic Con, MMORPG.com Managing Editor Jon Wood caught up with Steve Dausner of 38 Studios. The two talked about the company's unannounced MMO and some of the expectations that come along with it, bother for their big-name stars and the rest of the team working on the project.

At New York Comic Con, I had the opportunity to sit down and talk to Lead Content Designer Steve Danuser from 38 Studios about the MMO that they are making in the Boston-area studio. For those of you who might not be familiar with this relatively unknown (they haven't announced even the title fo their game yet) development studio, some background may be required.

Some time back, it was announced that Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling, was a huge fan of MMOs, particularly of EverQuest II. Being a fan, he even did some promotional work with the folks at SOE. From there, we learned that he was beginning his own MMO development company. Not only that, but he was also bringing together two of the hottest names in geekdom, artist Todd McFarlane and writer R.A. Salvatore.

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Cant wait to hear what the game will be...here goes to wishing for a Steam Punk MMO ^^.

~HappyGaming

Id be willing to put money that it is going to be a fantasy mmo... and that darkelves will be involved somehow :)

actually, it is going ot be a fantasy MMO. I reported on that ages ago. as far as dark elves go... well, maybe, but Salvatore's experie3nce goes way beyond just Drizzt.

I was wondering when MMORPG would get an interview with 38 studios. I'm glad you guys said your going to be following them now.

Interesting, I never was actually expecting to see this get off the ground!  Just seemed way out there at the time, but the story-driven idea sounds great if they can pull it off!

Im Completely stunned that Curt Schilling is into MMORPG's...thats amazing. Hopefully...with Curt's money he'll develope an extremely in-depth game.

OMG!  I'm stoked to experience what Salvatore writes and McFarlane designs.  Should make for some great characters with strong spines and good looks.

(just  don't make it 'level' based, skill based like UO/EVE please!)

Years ago, when household computers were a rarity and before "the internets" took off, I played PBM (Play-By-Mail) games. One of the games I played was story-driven. It was great, but there was a problem: all stories must come to an end sooner or later, but when the story ends, so does the game. The company in question didn't want to lose their cash cow, so they kept stringing the story along... until eventually all the founding players quit, and new players were reluctant to start the game because who likes tuning into the middle of a movie?

A story-drive game would be very difficult to make. I'd love to give it a try, but conceptually I don't understand how it would work, given 1) all stories must end and 2) people play at different rates and at different times.

This is going to be terrific! Lotta 38 Studios news lately, when is mmorpg.com going to set up a page so we can indulge in crazy premature speculation?