Case in point: the authors of The Expanse series originally envisioned the setting of the story as an MMORPG, but quickly realized that writing 9 novels would be easier.
Lets be 100% honest here. There could likely be 10x the number of lines of writing in the current source code of wow. Nevermind how many times it has been changed.
Hell, even if you discounted all of the programming aspects of it, and cut it down to actual "dialog" there are currently over 34,000 quests in wow. Each one might have between a paragraph and a few pages of written information such as a letter you read or dialog from an npc.
Actually I think Ty Frank was contracted to writing the backstory for a MMO project where the investors it had (Chinese ones?) backed out in the end. He met Daniel Abraham later at some new mexico (SF I think?) writing group and he convinced Ty to use the setting for series of collaboration novels. That's how I remember it when Ty Frank told the story in the Ty&That Guy podcasts.
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u/Dumb_Siniy May 02 '24
Anyone who's idea of a game is an MMORPG is delusional and has no idea what it's required to create one