EARTH ETERNAL: EARTH ETERNAL’s Matt Mihaly, CEO at Sparkplay Media, has been interviewed at Gamasutra. In the fairly detailed and interesting chat, Mihaly expounds on such topics as micro-transactions, the fantasy MMO’s projected audience and game design choices.
I’m really looking forward to EARTH ETERNAL and encourage you to read the new interview and hop over to the official EE site. The game seems to be a cute, subscription-free, WoW-lite experience - and that is a combination that may signal the end of my free time come release day. Dig it!
“Mihaly hopes to entice graduates of older free-to-play games. ‘We’re aiming basically at about 13 to 22… the vast majority [of the beta audience] are teenagers and kids in college. What we’re really looking for, there’s a whole pile of kids out there that are playing games like Runescape or Habbo. They’re kind of aging out of them.’ “