CCP CEO Hilmar Veigar Petursson has some excellent advice for companies trying to elbow their way into the World of Warcraft dominated realm of fantasy MMORPGs. Don't. In an interview with GamesIndustry.biz Petursson makes far too much sense for a game company CEO.

"I just don't understand why people do yet another fantasy game. Why make a clone of World of Warcraft?" said Petursson, in an exclusive interview with GamesIndustry.biz.

"World of Warcraft is the perfect implementation of this [genre]. It's been done. Do something else.

He has room to speak of course, as head of the company that brought us one of the more successful non-Fantasy MMOs in the world, Eve Online, Hilmar even invites developers to take a stab at his own game's genre, citing that historically competition has been very good to them...mainly because the competition sucked. Earth & Beyond and SWG aren't exactly threatening competitors, one being dead and the other being buried.

Either way, I fully endorse his suggestion. Quit it. Just stop. "But it's a completely different type of elf!" *smack* Snap out of it. You are making a game that is already made. Michael Fahey

EVE Online boss questions glut of fantasy MMOs [GamesIndustry.biz]

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