Elite / Frontier Q&A with Braben - he says E4 is two games

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http://uk.gamespot.com/news/6162140.html?tag=result;title;1

Dunno if this was picked up around the forums, I did a search for a few minutes and couldn't come up with any immediate results.. so figured i'd post it.

Apologies if it has already been posted, or was some time ago. The interview is quite old!

Figured it's a good read though for people who may not have come across it.

DB: Well, we started it in 2000--and we stopped it in 2000. The reason was, we started it as a MMORPG, and the technology at the time for connectivity was rubbish. It had been oversold by the providers. We realised very quickly that what we wanted to do would overload the system and that we would end up taking the blame for the failings of the telecommunications industry. It was put on hold after that. Now we've decided to do two projects: One will be a single-player game, and the other will be the massively multiplayer online role-playing game. We will do Elite 4 after Outsider, so it will benefit from everything we've done in Outsider. In Elite, you were a spaceship, to move on to be a person, so many other things have to happen. Apologies for it taking so long, and I really mean that, but it's a game dear to my heart, and I don't want to do it badly.
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