Peter Molyneux considers his MMO options

by Michael Zenke Jul 21st 2008 at 11:30AM

It certainly seems like everybody wants to make an MMO these days. Whether it's Halo, Knights of the Old Republic, or (maybe) Grand Theft Auto, the single-player developers are turning online as the genre gains popularity. Peter Molyeneux - well-known developer of games like Fable, Black and White, and Populous - has admitted that he and the folks at Lionhead Studios are considering making a massively multiplayer game as well. The admission came in the middle of an interview with the site Eurogamer. Primarily the discussion there centered around the upcoming Fable 2 for the Xbox 360.

In the midst of talk of dogs, one-button combat, and trying to avoid hype, interviewer Christian Donlan notes that the game has a number of MMO-like mechanics. There's an extensive co-op mode, for example, which allows you to custom-build a companion character for the 'main player'. Molyenux reponds by pointing to the PR person with them and saying "Well, there's someone in this room to make sure that I don't say too much about that question. I have been looking at MMOs. I love the interaction, and I'm fascinated by the idea of really feeling secure and cool enough to actually do it." When asked point blank if he was considering making a massively multiplayer game, the designer simply responded, "Yes". We'll keep you posted if that one word answer ever expands into something more.

Tags: breaking, fable, lionhead-studios, mmo-industry, peter-molyneux

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Nadril said on 11:53AM 7-21-2008

I'd like to get more MMO choices into the market, it's always a good thing.

Of course not all of them are going to be WoW-Behemoths with 10 million players, but an MMO can live well on 75k-100k subscribers easy.

Lethality said on 1:53PM 7-21-2008

Good lord... can you imagine how long it would take Molyeneaux to release an MMO? cripes!

JP said on 2:53PM 7-21-2008

Good! I'd like the mold of MMOs to be broken. The more people the genre has that AREN'T entirely consumed w/ "PvP" or "End Game", the better this industry will be. It's just banking on the subs that makes the launches tough. As long as they release a quality product, I'm all for more -inventive- and -ground breaking- MMOGs. Just no more catering to the "It only has 100k subs? It's a failurelolepiclol" type players please.