Merrill: Building an online multiplayer game is like building a rocket ship
Marc Merrill · Riot Games: Brandon Beck and Marc Merrill · Dec 14, 2020 · at 11:57
Riot Games co-founder Marc Merrill explains the immense technological hurdles of developing massively multiplayer online (MMO) games in the early 2000s.
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“The ability to build an online game is, is kind of like building a rocket ship where you have to build a game engine and a massive tool pipeline to put assets into the game. You know, you have to be able to build a whole set of server technologies that can scale to support thousands of simultaneous players all running around the world. So just the technology effort is incredibly difficult.”
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