Xbox - The Official Magazine - USA (2019-06)

Camelot we ended up with upwards of 47
different character classes. Which led to
some hysterically fun PVP dynamics that was
fun for the people doing the killing, but not
so much fun for the people being killed. So
with ESO we went a different way because of
that experience, which was [to] have a limited
number of classes but they all share a certain
set of abilities so that you can make your
character be much different from another
person’s character, but everyone is using a
shared pool of different abilities that makes it
harder to balance each character but ensures
that the system doesn’t get too out of whack.

When you’re not playing The Elder Scrolls
Online, what are you playing?
So I will always say off the bat that I’m a huge
FIFA fan, I’ve played it, like, every year since
FIFA 98 or something. I always take a team
from the lowest rank, it’s league two in the
latest versions, and take it to the Champion’s
League or the Premier League.

DARK AGE OF

CAMELOT 2001

Outside of ESO this is the

game that Matt Firor is

most known for. DAOC was

a medieval fantasy MMORPG

based on Arthurian legend,

where the land has been

split into three parts that

are at war with one another.

ALIENS ONLINE 1998

Mythic Entertainment

managed to obtain the

licence to make a first-

person shooter based on

the Alien franchise. Players

could fight alongside teams

of up to 30 players on either

the Colonial Marines or the

alien sides.

DARKNESS FALLS:

THE CRUSADE 1991

Originally called Tempest,

this was an online RPG

and Matt Firor’s first game

credit. The game had

players taking on the part

of various supernatural

creatures and adventuring

into a fantasy world.

MAGIC

MOMENTS

So you follow football quite a bit?

Oh yeah, I’m a huge Arsenal fan.

What would you say is your most memorable

moment during the time of ESO?

I think the biggest moment that I had in terms

of Elder Scrolls Online was the night that

we opened the game, which was in March

because we had early access for preorder

customers. I actually just got my character, I

had to create a new character. My character

that I play with online is a standard player

account. So I made a character and ran to the

middle of Daggerfall and used the sit emote.

So I sat in a chair in the middle of Daggerfall

and just watched players run past me as they

were coming into the game. There was no

other feeling like it. I’m killing myself for not

recording it. There’s lots of screenshots. But

just being the lead of the creative team that

made it all possible and watch other people

seeing the game for the first time, there’s

just no other feeling like that. It’s not my

world anymore, it’s now everyone’s. It feels

like a graduation, everything just changed

at that moment.

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