Titles like The Longest Journey - dreamy, personable, and quietly erudite - have granted Ragnar Tornquist a reputation as an unsettlingly grown-up presence in single-player game design. His latest project, The Secret World sees him turning his attention back to MMOs following a previous stint on Anarchy Online, and he has a typically idiosyncratic agenda.
Classes and levelling are out, and in their place are a promising tangle of factions and ancient allegiances, a culturally omnivorous conspiracy narrative, and a carefully partitioned PvP structure with RTS overtones. Eurogamer sat down with Tornquist at this year's Penny Arcade Expo to get a sense of how such an enormous project is coming together.
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The TSW Legacy Transfer system will let veteran players of TSW shuffle their membership status and other in-game items over to Secret World Legends.
