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Massive and Ubi's MMOG Plans

Kotaku has a follow-up to news from earlier this week that Ubisoft has acquired Massive Entertainment, quoting Ubisoft President and CEO Yves Guillemot saying Massive will play a key role in Ubisoft's MMO strategy, though their first efforts will be less, well, massive, referencing "light" MMO games that are popular in Asia. Interestingly, Yves conflates Massive's RTS experience with MMO development: "We just bought it from them since those guys have Blizzard so they didn't need that studio as much as we do, and those guys are extremely strong in RTS (real-time strategy), so they are going to help us also get closer to the MMO space. Our goal there is to go first with light MMOs...that have been extremely popular in China but are also coming in the U.S. and Europe and are generating lots of good revenue, so our goal is first to start with light MMOs, and then in the future also come with RPG and RTS, also in the MMO space."

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