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Nice little interview with Scott Brown at TVG regarding Auto Assualt.

A fortnight ago TVG had the opportunity to speak to Scott Brown, President of Auto Assault developer NetDevil. Since then we've had to sit on the interview (until now) hence NCSoft's aversion to discussing subscription fees and a release date during the chat. For those of you yet to hear the news, Auto Assault is out on April 13th in both North America and Europe with a subscription fee of £8.99 a month.

First off Scott, the setting of Auto Assault is a post-apocalyptic world, which is far from the more tradition fantasy world that many MMOs seem to follow. What sort advantages and disadvantages does this create during the various stages of development?

Well the advantage is that we have almost a blank slate for the writers to create with, there's not anything that's like it and so they can write stories about almost anything they want - and I think that they have. The disadvantage is that it's difficult for players to get their heads around what the game is, because not only is it not fantasy, it's also not characters based. You have an avatar that is you when you're in the towns, when you're in the world its vehicle combat and so a lot of people don't understand what to expect when they first get into the game. A lot of the comments that we do hear is "Woah, this is nothing like I expected!" and so that's been our biggest hurdle really.

Read The Full Original Article at TVG.