With the intention of wanting to take the MMO genre back to its roots, Novaquark's forthcoming Dual Universe is a space-based game that is currently getting a lot of attention online. With a Kickstarter campaign currently in progress, the developer is promising that players will be able to do anything within its persistent universe, and that they will be able to craft anything they want as part of a fully editable voxel world. To this extent, the game is already being dubbed as "EVE Online meets Minecraft meets No Man’s Sky".
However, there are already some concerns regarding Novaquarks's ambitious project, not least because of how Hello Games over-promised and under-delivered with their controversial No Man's Sky. And with this taken into account, some MMO fans are also questioning the indie developer's design decision of focusing on PVP gameplay where players are all part of an emergent universe that is fully editable as part of a sandbox environment.
Just what safeguards will be in place to ensure that players won't have their fun and creations ruined by those who don't share their ideals? To discuss this and more, I spoke to Jean Christophe Baillie (Founder of Novaquark) and also got to ask him as to whether the developer has...