Matt Firor has been in the MMO business since 2001, the days of Dark Age of Camelot, and ran The Elder Scrolls Online developer ZeniMax Online Studios until 2025. Firor resigned in response to the cancellation of in-development MMO Blackbird and the mass layoffs that followed.
Firor still plays The Elder Scrolls Online in secret, he told MinnMax in a wide-ranging interview, but his current obsession appears to be Crimson Desert—not an MMO, but certainly designed like one.
"It's fantastic," Firor told MinnMax's Ben Hanson. "For those game developers listening, or people who want to be game developers, the online tech side of MMOs is never discussed and it should be because it's usually the hardest part of the project." And that's the part Pearl Abyss was able to skip.
"Being able to make a singleplayer MMO is almost like cheating to me," Firor jok...
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