Richard Garriott and Starr Long at PAX South 2015
Understatement: “Richard Garriott is kind of a big deal in the MMO world.”
Massively catches up with Starr Long and Richard Garriott at PAX South. Much discussion about Shroud of the Avatar doth ensue.
Here’s a snippet from the beginning:
“But that doesn’t mean Garriott felt that a crowdfunding project would be an automatic home run. Says Garriott, ‘Before we did it, I was in horrific fear of it. It was one of these things where you go, “If we go do this crowdfunding thing and it does not work, my career is over.” It was a very scary thing to go do.’ According to Garriott, watching the Kickstarter funds ebb and flow (along with backers through the SOTA website) was terrifying. Garriott paints the funding process as all-or-nothing not just for the project but for the future of him and his company.”
There’s also a mention of the game being upgraded/updated to Unity 5, which is the first I’ve heard of it. Don’t know what the immediate benefits (to us) would be, but here’s hoping for the best.