No longer keeping within the safe zone of tried and tested IPs, 10 veteran developers of MMO titans like World of Warcraft, EVE Online, City of Heroes, Dark Age of Camelot, Lord of the Rings Online, EverQuest and Ultima Online have now come together to form a new MMO developer studio called Colony Studios.

Our collective contributions to a significant number of hit MMOs give us a strong advantage. Most dev teams – including Colony’s – have gone through the process of learning what doesn’t work in game development, but our team members have also been intimately involved with creating what does work in several successful MMOs and that combination will serve us well. 

Our challenge is, of course, to use our experience and talent correctly to create an MMO that players will enjoy. The bottom line is we’ve launched MMOs before, and our experience lets us anticipate bumps in the road and steer clear of them.  The fact that we’ve been through it before means things are much less likely to fall through the cracks.