MMOs “don’t have to be serious to be epic,” says WildStar writer

Many triple-A massively multiplayer online games (MMOs) seem to lean toward a more serious tone, with no shortage of scantily clad female elves running around and bashing things with epic axes twice their size on an epic quest to save the world from an epic evil. WildStar, the latest MMO from publisher NCsoft (Guild Wars 2) and developer Carbine Studios, is going for something a little different.