CCP on World of Darkness Cancellation Interview

During the course of Fanfest 2014 Polygon’s Ben Kuchera took the chance to ask a few question concerning the cancellation of the World of Darkness MMO to CCP’s CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson and came away with some interesting answers. Here’s a couple of short snippets:

“We began with huge aspirations, wholly optimistic ones, which is often the case when you come from any success and you want to expand on that. And we’ve made many scoping [changes], changed direction and all that through the year, and the core experience has suffered for it, in a way. And it still had a relatively long way to go,” CCP CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson told Polygon in an interview in Iceland during Fanfest 2014.

“And even though it is extremely difficult because the idea and the concept are terribly inspirational and powerful, we really had to be honest with ourselves. This is not trending towards what we were hoping or planning for in the beginning, and it’s better to stop now than to continue at this rate, at this pace, or making yet another change to the premise,” he continued. “So, even though it was extremely difficult, this was the time where it’s OK, we have given it all we’ve got for now. Better to stop it, and company to go focus on the EVE universe.”