“We made bets in the office and everyone was saying dwarves would have a hard time against the elves.” The first was a vote between the wood elf Sylvan and the dwarven Fortress factions. The voting took place over two rounds, each time the fans were offered a toss up between two competing factions. Limbic asked the fans to vote for two of Heroes VII’s playable faction. “For some people in the team, including me sometimes, it’s frustrating to always go with the conservative portion of our audience.” This relationship with the fans has left a lot of Limbic’s team with “mixed feelings,” Le Breton admits. “We want to do a good game but don’t have a vision for how Heroes should be.” A lot of the core team who worked on Heroes VI had left to form a new studio.

So, when it came to Heroes VII “in the heart of the core team was how can we make a game for the fans?” Le Breton admits. It was not the Heroes of our dreams.”īy the time the game released, Limbic felt they were “doing the game against a certain chunk of the community instead of doing it for them.” “It was a question of time, money, and ambition. “Heroes VI in this perspective was very innovative but it was hard to implement everything in the game and in the end all of us are disappointed with the final product compared to our original vision,” Le Breton says. “All the changes that I mentioned they said it wasn’t heroes.” They complained that time and money had been spent on new features instead of refining other parts of the game. “The community was saying Heroes 6 was the worst game in the series ever,” Le Breton tells me. HIs work on Heroes VI began with a team brainstorm: what would the perfect Might and Magic game include? Their conclusions: more levels of strategy, an RPG reputation system like the one in Bioware’s games, they wanted to have some of the persistent elements they were seeing in MMOs, like an always connected community of adventurers. He’s a veteran: having worked as a producer on the last four Might & Magic games.

One of the people responsible for building this new Might & Magic is brand director Erwan Le Breton.

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