The Secret World Interview

Ragnar Tørnquist On… Storytelling on Rock, Paper Shotgun is a Q&A with the
Funcom designer in a conversation that took place before Age of Conan
shipped (which, combined with the fact that he was not on the AoC team explains
his comment that "Ship a finished game" is the lesson learned from the rocky
launch of anarchy Online). The conversation mostly focuses on The Secret
World, offering some of the first perspectives on the project: For
The Secret World, our background is in adventure games, so… we’re building an
immensely detailed world, and we’re going to spread that over a number of years.
We’re not necessarily going to have a set storyline that spreads over a number
of expansion packs, but we are going to have a story that involves the players.
I think that’s something that people really want – they want meaning when they
go into these games. Even if it’s a game where you spend 80% of your time
killing monsters, they’re still looking for that meaning – what am I doing here?
Even on a spiritual level – I think people seek that always. Not everybody’s
going to care about it, but if one out of five people – if that’s important for
them – well it’s there, and you can dig into it and spend years living inside
this world and finding new stuff all the time. That’s the great things about
MMOs – it’s not finite, there’s always going to be more, places that you haven’t
seen, lore you haven’t learned. And we’re definitely going to build on
that.


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