Dave Rickey Interview

The Corporation has conducted an interview with former Mythic Entertainment and Mutable Realms employee Dave Rickey, in which the developer answers questions about his time with Dark Age of Camelot, the demise of Wish, and the MMORPG industry as a whole. Here’s a bit to start you off:

Q: Is the recent decision by Mythic to release an altered-rules server a good move for them?

A: It’s an attempt to “unring the bell”, roll time back to when the population of the game was a lot higher. When the 800 pound gorilla of WoW stomped a 2 million subscriber hole in the market for EQ clones, with a budget in the tens of millions, it became a lot less viable to try to compete directly with that kind of gameplay. It’s potentially a good move, the question is if it is already too late. The current Live team has their work cut out for them, and I wish them well (I still have several friends working on it).