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If You Could Choose The MMORPG Creator To Helm The Next Great Game, Who Would You Pick? | MMORPG.com

SystemSystem Member UncommonPosts: 12,599
edited August 2022 in News & Features Discussion

imageIf You Could Choose The MMORPG Creator To Helm The Next Great Game, Who Would You Pick? | MMORPG.com

In a recent interview, Final Fantasy XIV's Naoki Yoshida stated he'd like to make at least one more MMORPG from scratch before he died. It got Bradford thinking: who would I want helming the next great MMO?

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  • Slapshot1188Slapshot1188 Member LegendaryPosts: 17,650
    Me.

    Obviously. Everyone else has proven to be incompetent. ;)
    MendelachesomaScotBrotherMaynardeoloeGilcroixlotrloredragonlee66KyleranSandmanjwand 6 others.

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  • lahnmirlahnmir Member LegendaryPosts: 5,052
    Chris Roberts. So he can finally start making a great game, or an MMORPG. I’ll see myself out now.

    /Cheers,
    Lahnmir
    SovrathTheDalaiBombaTheocrituskitaradeoloedragonlee66KyleranBrainykikoodutroa8Odi101and 3 others.
    'the only way he could nail it any better is if he used a cross.'

    Kyleran on yours sincerely 


    'But there are many. You can play them entirely solo, and even offline. Also, you are wrong by default.'

    Ikcin in response to yours sincerely debating whether or not single-player offline MMOs exist...



    'This does not apply just to ED but SC or any other game. What they will get is Rebirth/X4, likely prettier but equally underwhelming and pointless. 

    It is incredibly difficult to design some meaningfull leg content that would fit a space ship game - simply because it is not a leg game.

    It is just huge resource waste....'

    Gdemami absolutely not being an armchair developer

  • WarWitchWarWitch Member UncommonPosts: 351
    Dune or Wheel of time.
  • MrdGamezMrdGamez Member UncommonPosts: 58
    Naoki Yoshida 100%
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  • MooncubusMooncubus Member UncommonPosts: 22
    I don't even have to read the rest of the article, you already gave the best answer in the lead up. Yoshi-P of course
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  • MendelMendel Member LegendaryPosts: 5,609
    I don't know that picking an established MMORPG leader has actually worked well.  They may have succeeded once, but their second try seems to always fall into a cautious 'repeat what worked before' category.  If they are attempting only to 'give people something similar to X'. is it any wonder that people say 'seen this, done that' and move on.

    So, I'm actually looking for someone new.  Someone who will focus on the RP and MM aspects of the MMORPG.  They shouldn't repeat a past project, with different graphics.  Do something new and innovative to take the genre to new heights.



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  • XenokevXenokev Member UncommonPosts: 43
    I would choose the top ten game devs from Japan, Korea, and America to collaborate and create something unique, innovative, and magnificent.
    Sensai
  • TheDalaiBombaTheDalaiBomba Member EpicPosts: 1,493
    Mateusz Kanik, a 15 year vet with CDPR who served as a design director and worked on everything from the original Witcher to CP77.

    Pair him Kristoffer Touborg, who was one of the early design leads for EVE Online during its heyday, before he left CCP....  To help Riot design League of Legends.
    Valdheim
  • zyxxeryzyxxery Member UncommonPosts: 24
    Hayao Miyazaki...

    Not a game dev, but wow. just imagine what sort of world he'd create.
    imershon
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  • olepiolepi Member EpicPosts: 3,053
    I guess it is kind of a tradeoff.

    Do you want somebody who has already succeeded, and has demonstrated skill in producing quality results on time?

    Or do you want a visionary who comes up with something new, meaning nobody has experience doing it?

    Perhaps a competent studio with both types of people?
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  • DigDuggyDigDuggy Member RarePosts: 694
    Me.
  • achesomaachesoma Member RarePosts: 1,768
    I feel like every successful mmo lead from the past has followed up with complete failures later on. Success in the past is no guarantee of success in the future. In a way, it can even be a barrier, see Illusory Superiority. I believe the next big mmo will be headed by someone relatively unknown.
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  • ScotScot Member LegendaryPosts: 24,423
    zyxxery said:
    Hayao Miyazaki...

    Not a game dev, but wow. just imagine what sort of world he'd create.
    Welcome to the forums! :)
  • XiaokiXiaoki Member EpicPosts: 4,045
    None.

    Look at Richard Garriott, he made Ultima Online and everything else he's done has sucked monkey.

    Look at Brad McQuaid, he made EverQuest and everything else he did sucked monkey.

    Look at Mark Jacobs, he made Dark Age of Camelot and everything else he's done has sucked monkey.

    Naoki Yoshida's turn on the monkey is coming.
    dragonlee66
  • Slapshot1188Slapshot1188 Member LegendaryPosts: 17,650
    olepi said:
    I guess it is kind of a tradeoff.

    Do you want somebody who has already succeeded, and has demonstrated skill in producing quality results on time?

    Or do you want a visionary who comes up with something new, meaning nobody has experience doing it?

    Perhaps a competent studio with both types of people?
    I want someone at the top that is a skilled project manager with proves excellence in delivering on time and within budget.

    Then I let that person hire creative talent.

    Then I structure compensation so that it incentivizes timely delivery but also sales (initial and ongoing).   Cut them into the pie so that they are incentivized to deliver a great product but also a product that does not languish in development hell.


    Brainy

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  • lahnmirlahnmir Member LegendaryPosts: 5,052
    Perhaps we could pick Derek Smart? What could go wrong with a name like that, right?

    /Cheers,
    Lahnmir
    KyleranValdheimMadBomber13
    'the only way he could nail it any better is if he used a cross.'

    Kyleran on yours sincerely 


    'But there are many. You can play them entirely solo, and even offline. Also, you are wrong by default.'

    Ikcin in response to yours sincerely debating whether or not single-player offline MMOs exist...



    'This does not apply just to ED but SC or any other game. What they will get is Rebirth/X4, likely prettier but equally underwhelming and pointless. 

    It is incredibly difficult to design some meaningfull leg content that would fit a space ship game - simply because it is not a leg game.

    It is just huge resource waste....'

    Gdemami absolutely not being an armchair developer

  • ScotScot Member LegendaryPosts: 24,423
    edited August 2022
    I don't tend to follow studios or creators, let me see the reviews as past performance does not..blah blah.

    But whoever came up with the questing in Lotro, TSW and SWTOR, whoever did the RvR in DAOC, the housing in AC, the 'scenarios' in WO and the graphics in BDO would be an all star team.
  • olepiolepi Member EpicPosts: 3,053
    Slapshot1188 said:
    olepi said:
    I guess it is kind of a tradeoff.

    Do you want somebody who has already succeeded, and has demonstrated skill in producing quality results on time?

    Or do you want a visionary who comes up with something new, meaning nobody has experience doing it?

    Perhaps a competent studio with both types of people?
    I want someone at the top that is a skilled project manager with proves excellence in delivering on time and within budget.

    Then I let that person hire creative talent.

    Then I structure compensation so that it incentivizes timely delivery but also sales (initial and ongoing).   Cut them into the pie so that they are incentivized to deliver a great product but also a product that does not languish in development hell.



    I've had a couple of really good managers in my career. They know enough about the technical issues not to get snowed under if I'm not there. And if the manager isn't there, I'm good enough at management to keep us from getting committed to something stupid.
    Mendel

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  • TheocritusTheocritus Member LegendaryPosts: 10,014
    lahnmir said:
    Chris Roberts. So he can finally start making a great game, or an MMORPG. I’ll see myself out now.

    /Cheers,
    Lahnmir

    The problem with him is your company would need at least 500M just to get a semi-playable demo......
  • olepiolepi Member EpicPosts: 3,053
    Theocritus said:
    lahnmir said:
    Chris Roberts. So he can finally start making a great game, or an MMORPG. I’ll see myself out now.

    /Cheers,
    Lahnmir

    The problem with him is your company would need at least 500M just to get a semi-playable demo......

    Chris Roberts is a visionary, who apparently has little or no skill in project management. He needs to be working under a skilled project manager with firm deadlines and milestones.
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  • BrotherMaynardBrotherMaynard Member RarePosts: 647
    edited August 2022
    Me.

    Obviously. Everyone else has proven to be incompetent. ;)
    You mean you want to prove that too?  :)

    Edit: these emojis seem a bit broken...

    Post edited by BrotherMaynard on
    Slapshot1188
  • kitaradkitarad Member LegendaryPosts: 8,177
    MrdGamez said:
    Naoki Yoshida 100%
    So much this

  • user298user298 Member UncommonPosts: 152
    I wouldn't choose any of existing MMO developers. Each and every MMO I have played had plenty of flaws in it (especially in terms of very, VERY limited gameplay variety) and I don't want same sociopathic, narrow-minded people create another game with same flaws.
    MendelMcSleaz
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