The original director of BioWare's long-running MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic—which is now being run by Broadsword—had not played a single game in the genre when he started work on it, he has revealed.
In an interview, BioWare veteran James Ohlen described the studio's founders Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk calling him into their office in 2006, halfway through the development of Dragon Age: Origins, and asking him to oversee a new office in Austin, Texas, making MMOs.
"And I was like, 'I hate massive multiplayer games. But all right, I'll do it.'
"The day after, I created a character in World of Warcraft and started down that path ... I was playing all the MMOs and getting to a high level and I forced myself to love them," he says, chuckling.
"But before that, no, I just wasn't ...
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