Ex WoW Designer Founds New NetEase Studio Making an AAA Fantasy MMO Codenamed ‘Ghost’
Greg Street, better known as Ghostcrawler, is an industry veteran who worked for many years on WoW at Blizzard Entertainment as Game Designer and then Lead System Designer until the Warlords of Draenor expansion.
Street, who's also credited as Designer on the first three Age of Empires games, later joined Riot Games to work on League of Legends. His real passion is the MMO genre, though, and he became the lead of Riot's League of Legends MMO in late 2020.
Earlier this year, Street departed Riot to build a new studio of his own. The veil has been lifted today, revealing that it's a fully remote development team called Fantastic Pixel Castle and funded by NetEase.
The triple-A MMO project is codenamed Ghost. It is targeting a PC launch (with plans for consoles, too) and will be set in a brand-new fantasy universe. The official website includes the first details on the setting:
You are one of the survivors of an apocalypse lost to memory, and the rebuilding of the world now lies on your shoulders.
In Ghost, you travel to world shards to power up your characters, bring back resources, and build your fledgling civilization by growing and supporting the city's diverse and ever-changing factions. In turn, you'll see the city grow and evolve over time based on the choices and actions of players just like you, as an epic story unfolds season over season.
The World of Ghost is an original IP designed from the ground up to create rich and immersive gameplay. It is a fantasy world of heroic adventure, where you seek clues to uncover the mysteries of the world and engage with allies and enemies who have diverse motivations, actions, and secrets.
Albeit a fantasy MMO with magic and axes and crossbows, Ghost will not feature certain
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