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Wizards of the Coast boss would love to make new D&D MMO

Wizards of the Coast boss would love to make new D&D MMO

The president of Wizards of the Coast, John Hight, has said that he would be interested in producing a new Dungeons and Dragons MMO. 

Speaking to GI.biz, the exec said that he would love to have someone to follow-up Turbine's previous D&D MMO, but added that such a project would have to be fairly innovative to make sense in the space. 

"I'd love to have that," he says. "I think that we'll want to rethink what an MMO is in this day and age. I think the traditional model that Blizzard – well, even before that, Ultima Online, Everquest – pursued, that could use updating.

"I think in our case, it's probably a crawl, walk, run [situation]. We want to make sure that we've assembled the talent, we have the backend technology, we have the plans to pursue. But of course, that's a glimmer in my eye. I want to see that happen."

He continued: "I think technology can help us a lot, too, to make some of the things that were difficult to accomplish back in the day a lot easier."


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