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Richard Garriott interviewed on the MMO marketGamesindustry.biz has a new interview up with Richard Garriott, the father of the Ultima series and the following "Ultima Online" which for many was their first introduction to the world of the MMO. Now working with NCsoft, developing Tabula Rasa, what does Lord British himself think of the MMO market today and how the juggernaut that is World of Warcraft has impacted on it? "Ultima Online still has hundreds of thousands of players just like it did when it launched. But the ones playing today have almost no overlap with the ones who played it a year ago, or the year before that," Garriott explained. "What's happened is the majority of those players are now looking for other things to play and have moved on to EverQuest, or World of Warcraft, et cetera... Similarly, the people that World of Warcraft brought into online gaming have been churning out, and are now looking for other forms of online entertainment. "So we're very excited - truly, honestly - to see any successful massively multiplayer online game," Garriott concluded. "World of Warcraft has done us a great service." Head over to Gamesindustry.biz to read the full interview. Please head over to our discussion board to talk about this news (registration not required).
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