GameSpot Interview: Raph Koster
February 14th, 2006 by Sherri the MouseGameSpot interviewed Raph Koster recently, and he had some interesting comments about where he thinks MMOs/MMORPGs are headed:
What is the MMO today? MMOs to me are a platform, and we deliver games in them. Right now, we usually do the one game per [world] but I don’t think it needs to be that way. I think a lot of the trend has been to deliver more games within one world. Crafting is now a viable sub-game and a lot of the games’ economics are coming in–like people playing arbitrage and all kinds of things like that. To me, MMOs are a platform. They’re a place that offers entertainment, where you can put games and community and socialization and all kinds of other things. That’s what the MMO is to me.
Raph “Designer Dragon” Koster was the Lead Designer on Ultima Online and Ultima Online: The Second Age (T2A).
