TERA's Brian Knox dismisses console plans

by Jef Reahard on Jul 13th 2010 5:00PM

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There's been no shortage of TERA news since the game turned a lot of heads at this year's E3, and the latest comes to us courtesy of Caelixian and the TERAcast podcast. Episode number ten features discussion of En Masse Entertainment's showing at last month's trade event, and concludes with an interview with TERA senior producer Brian Knox. Knox talks about everything from the challenges inherent in Westernization, to international communication, to the possibility of TERA appearing on consoles.

"[We have] a singular focus that allows us to be concentrated on one product, one release. A lot of people ask "it's such an action game, have you thought about the console"... for us we want to have that single focus, we want to make an action MMO on the PC and we don't want to stray too many different ways because that's when you get caught up and everything gets half done instead of one thing being done really well," Knox says.

Download the tenth episode of TERAcast to hear the full interview.

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Tags: bluehole-studio, brian-knox, console, en-masse, en-masse-entertainment, interview, tera, tera-online, teracast, terafans

Reader Comments (4)

Another console MMORPG bites the dust?

Problem is, consoles and MMOs are just not a good fit. I mean, server side alone is a nightmare. Forget about patches. Client side you're looking at making the game have a lot less depth to accommodate console control schemes, and making your PC users roll their eyeballs.

It'll be interesting to see if DCUO crashes and burns or sets the new MMO console standard.

I think the reason for the console speculation was due to the control system, which appears to be very hand-controller friendly from the info known thus far.

I think in addition to alot of the technical problems, a huge deference is the control scheme. The companies don't want to re-invent a control scheme and they don't want to require players to go spend $30 on a usb keyboard and mouse.

Sad thing is, alot of people have a usb keyboard and a mouse they could use to just plug in and go.