Ensemble: We Could have Beaten Warcraft with Halo MMO

"Even though a lot of people talk about how you just can't build a WoW killer, I absolutely believe that we could have built an MMO, if Microsoft had maintained their commitment, that if it hadn't been a WoW killer it certainly would've competed." So says former Ensemble Studio staffer Dusty Monk today.

Speaking with incgamers, Monk states that before being closed down (after the release of Halo Wars), Ensemble had been working on an MMO, "It was going to be the Halo MMO, and it was absolutely going to compete against WoW", says the president and founder of Windstorm Studios.

"You have to remember that Ensemble came from a standpoint of being really good at competing against Blizzard Entertainment. We had a pretty good history of knowing the types of stuff that Blizzard put into their games to make them really successful, and the kinds of things we'd need to put into an MMO to compete against Blizzard", he continued.

Source: incgamers.