Trion Worlds
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Formerly called
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Trion World Network, Inc. (2006–2010) |
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| Industry | Video game industry |
| Founded | January 10, 2006 |
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| Headquarters | Redwood City, California, U.S. |
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Number of locations
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2 offices (2017) |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Scott Hartsman (CEO) |
| Products | Rift, ArcheAge, Defiance, Trove |
| Website | trionworlds |
Trion Worlds, Inc. (formerly Trion World Network, Inc.) is an American video game developer and publisher, which focuses primarily on MMOs, particularly of the MMORPG and MMORTS genres. The company was founded in 2006 by Lars Buttler and Jon Van Caneghem, who had each previously worked for NCSoft and left in 2009 to join Electronic Arts.
The company was founded as Trion World Network, Inc in 2006 by Lars Buttler, previously serving as Vice President for Global Online at major American video game publisher EA, and Jon Van Canegham, previously serving as Executive Producer at South Korean online video game company NCSoft. The two left their respective jobs to pursue the founding of a company that could "define a generation of interactive entertainment by fundamentally revolutionizing the way games are created, played and distributed.”
After the founding, the company immediately began development on the Trion Platform, a server technology through which it claims both Trion and "external partners" will deliver games, and is claimed to be less heavily client-based and enable large-scale battles.
Trion also begun early development on their first MMORPG, then titled Heroes of Telara, which would go on to be renamed as Rift: Planes of Telara, until finally being released as Rift in March 2011.
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