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Matt "Positron" Miller confident in the face of costumed nemeses
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Matt "Positron" Miller, NCsoft's NorCal Senior Designer, was snatched and grilled by the gang at Ten Ton Hammer just recently. Among the topics touched on were speculations about the impact of upcoming costumed nemeses in the super-hero-themed MMOG genre.

City of Heroes/Villains was, back in the day, something of a dark horse. While Cryptic Studios and NCsoft were working on the game, there was intense speculation and skepticism about the material. How could it even work?

Well, work it did, and very well. Miller is confident that it will continue to do so.

Miller acknowledges that it's hard to predict what impact the new games will have on CoX's player numbers. We wouldn't be putting any money down on predictions ourselves, but it's going to be interesting.

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Author: Tateru Nino
Category: business-modelschampions-onlinecity-of-heroescity-of-villainscoxcryptic-studiosmatt-millermmo-industryncsoftpositronsuper-herotth
Publish Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:00:00 EST
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