{"id":11444,"date":"2011-04-21T10:48:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T08:48:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"splash-damage-a-really-good-massively-multiplayer-shooter-is-the-next-big-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/11444-splash-damage-a-really-good-massively-multiplayer-shooter-is-the-next-big-thing","title":{"rendered":"Splash Damage: \u201cA really good massively multiplayer shooter\u201d is the next big thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What&rsquo;s next for the first person shooter, then? Taking a moment out from finishing up Brink, Splash Damage CEO Paul Wedgwood tells <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerandvideogames.com\/298886\/news\/mmo-shooters-the-next-big-thing-for-fps-splash-damage\" target=\"_blank\">CVG<\/a>, &ldquo;That&#8217;s really easy. I just want a really good massively multiplayer shooter, thanks. I&#8217;m desperate for it. Why isn&#8217;t there? I just can&#8217;t stand the fact that there isn&#8217;t one yet. I&#8217;d do it but 140 staff? Managing 140 people? It&#8217;s just so hard.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know, for a long time it hasn&#8217;t been technically feasible because you need super low latency connections for good shooter combat and that&#8217;s generally incompatible with 1000 people being on a server at the same time. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But there are enough solutions around now so that it&#8217;s reasonably feasible. I know that there are some teams on the periphery working on ideas for this,&#8221; he says. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think there&#8217;s definitely going to be some cool stuff that comes around but I think the massively multiplayer shooter, one where we&#8217;re all engaged in the same continuous environment is the thing that&#8217;s going to truly impress me next.&#8221;<br \/>Maybe it&rsquo;s time Blizzard considered M16s for World of WarCraft. They could just shoot magic bullets or something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brink dev wants to shoot EVERYBODY IN THE WORLD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}