Perry Says: MMOs Could Do 70m

David “ex-Shiny” Perry sat down with videogaming247 to explain how well his free-to-play MMO is doing (5 million people signed up) and that MMOs need to be less nerdy, and more mainstream, as opposed to…ehm…BioShock.

David Perry, previously of Matrix-developer Shiny and now of the reborn Acclaim, has told videogaming247 that he believes the MMO space is led by an (extremely nerdy) game in World of Warcraft and that an attitude shift is needed for the genre to break out into the mainstream proper.

(I believe there’s a 70 million player MMO idea and no one’s done it yet because we haven’t got anyone that’s thinking down the Will Wright path,) he said. (There’s people that get close. There’s people that do Club Penguin, or Maple Story, games that are more simple to play, and people like Disney buy them for $500-$600 million and no one bats an eyelid and everyone goes off and makes another Bioshock.