LEGO Universe Kotaku Interview Part 2

This is part of a 15 minute interview by Kotaku with NetDevil (the company making LEGO Universe) about LEGO Universe.
Watch part 1 first.
It has now been announced it will come out in 2010.

Here is the description they give:
LEGO Universe producer Ryan Seabury sat down with us last week to talk about the future of the massively multiplayer online game. Seabury says that a core group of 50 LEGO users have already started messing around with the game, building in-world models and adding to their own private game maps. Some of that content may even make it the final game when it launches sometime in 2009.

As they work on the game, Seabury says that NetDevil is trying to identify what is "really core LEGO play" and not create a directed adventure like you find in the Traveller's Tales games. In fact, he hopes that the game could get people to do the same in the real world. Right now, it seems that lots of kids buy the pre-packs to make the models found on the box cover. Seabury says playing the game inspires he and his child to actually take their virtual creations and make them with real-world LEGOs.

Seabury also talks about how LEGO Universe will compare to LittleBigPlanet and Spore when it comes to user created content. It's a chunky, though interesting interview if you have the time.

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[pizzap66]

will i be able to play this on my mac???

[legouniverse1]

So far they have only said PC.

[legofan17]

ohhh... i see, thanks

[legouniverse1]

Your welcome.

[DirtyPlastic]

I was actually looking forward to this game until i found out that it will cost $10 a month or $80 a year on top of the $40 for the game. I dont mind the subscription that much, but screw paying for the game when im gunna have to pay for a subscription on top of it. maybe ill pick it up in a few months if it takes off, and doesnt go the way of APB. MMO's are always scarry to get into at launch, thats why i think they should drop the price in the begining, if it was cheeper i would get it.

[TheShadowCross]

As far as Star Wars or Batman games in Lego, they made them for Windows. But there are 2 things. 1> There IS a way to play any Windows game on a Mac. Buy any copy of Windows on a disc, and install it on your Mac. They call that bootcamp for some reason. And 2> This isn't just a little game with a sequal coming the next year. This is the big deal for Lego. So they might make it hybrid, even if not right away.

[legouniverse1]

Yep.

[Skipper242424]

It's 2010 now

[legouniverse1]

Probably not. At first they said March 2008 then they said the last quarter of 2008. They don't want to have to delay it again so they are just saying 2009.

[seantking]

they dont know