Relic’s resident giant and General Manager, Ron Moravek, has been interviewed by Gamesindustry.biz.
Here’s a nice meaty quote to snag your interest (there’s a couple of these in there).
You mentioned World of Warcraft previously, which as you said has been hugely successful - is that an area you’re interested in? Could we see an MMO coming out of Relic?
I can’t really see us doing an MMO. What I can see us doing, and this comes back to what you were asking earlier - with Company of Heroes we’re launching Relic Online. And one of the things we want to do with Relic Online is bring a Dawn of War persistent campaign.
So it’s not what you’d traditionally see with an MMORPG, but we might bring a real time strategy game and do that in a massively multiplayer persistent campaign. It’s delivering a massively multiplayer experience, but maybe not in the same genre. So yes, I think there are opportunities there, but there are huge challenges with making an MMO.
A persistent campaign for Dawn of War! WOW! But read the article, there’s a bunch of other great tidbits in there.
Thanks to Pyros at Planet Company of Heroes for the heads up.
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Posted by HYBRiS at July 29th, 2006 at 8:06 am
His answer to consoles is interesting as well;
“Do you have any plans to bring Company of Heroes to consoles?
We’re keeping a close eye on it. We’ve done a lot of work to see how we would do it, and we same to the same conclusion as I think the Lord of the Rings guys did; we’re watching Lord of the Rings going to 360 very closely. Because if it’s successful, I think there’s a good chance we could bring Company of Heroes and even Dawn of War over.”