Interview with Gaijin CEO Anton Yudintsev on World of Planes

[Jaws2002]

What a disapointment.

Q. What will be the player count for the online battles? 32, 64, 128, or as far up as 256?

A. We believe that the optimal number is 32. That's not a technical question — we can support up to 256 players or even more. This is just a design decision.

Q. How big are the online maps? Are they bigger than what we saw in Wings of Prey?

A. We don't think that for a battle focused online game we need bigger maps. However, we are planning bigger maps for the Jet planes.

You can play pretty much any game with 32 players in one room. Massive Multiplayers should be just that....MASSIVE.

Please go fly a few missions in Aces High and see how dramatically different is a game with 32 players compared to a game with 300+ players.

Back in the day, when I usded to play AH, many times we would go attack some enemy positions with over 100 players in the strike team. The defenses were in many ocasions just as strong.

That's massive multiplayer, not some 30-40 planes skirmish on a tiny map.

Up to this moment I was looking forward to this game. All my interest died right here.