Stargate Worlds :: News :: Interviews :: Joe Ybarra featured in The Hollywood Reporter

Joe Ybarra, Senior Vice President of Strategic Operations at Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment, recently spoke with news giant The Hollywood Reporter in an exclusive piece examining the future of the MMOG genre.

The article, which noted that more than 60 online multiplayer roleplaying games are in development, took time with three different studios, including Cheyenne, dipping into their strategic planning and asking how each company is going to make their game stand out on the shelf.

Here's just some of what Ybarra added to the discussion!

"The big claim to fame of 'WoW' is its ease of use," [Joe] explains, "which is what's attracted people who have never played an MMOG before. Similarly, we expect to have lots of really big 'Stargate SG-1' TV fans drawn to our game, many of whom have never even played a computer game before, let alone an MMOG. We need to address that audience on the front end by letting folks ease into the product. But then, once we've got them hooked, we need to kick off the kid gloves and give them an exciting game that will appeal to medium and hardcore gamers as well. It's quite a challenge."

The entire article is available now at The Hollywood Reporter Web site. Go have a look!

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