Massively interviews Multiverse’s Corey Bridges about the announced Buffy: The Vampire Slayer MMO, but doesn’t really do much to answer the question of why anyone would bother at this point with a B:TVS MMO,
All that said, the Buffy announcement is very positive. We have to ask, how is it that you folks are able to get ahold of these great intellectual properties? What kind of relationship do you have with Fox and Joss Whedon to get in touch with these worlds?
CB: Well, we’re big fans of “where there’s a will there’s a way”. We are not announcing any relationship with Joss, but I would love to work on these games with him. We’re definitely seeing what we can do on that front. I and the rest of the team, unsurprisingly, are huge Joss Whedon fans. He does a fantastic job creating worlds. Firefly was an easy setting to understand how that could be a fully realized world, but even Buffy – which takes place primarily in our world – has a lot of mythology to it. Sometimes literal mythology.
So basically, this is an attempt to cash in on a brilliant but not very active property (thanks, in large part, to Fox’s own ridiculous treatment of Buffy and Whedon). And the result — if anything is ever actually released — will be some lame-ass Flash game that sounds about as exciting as the crappy handheld Buffy games that keep coming out.
Better to just not do a Buffy MMO at all rather than do some half-assed game that doesn’t even have Joss Whedon involved. What’s the frakking point?