The Mystery Of Star Wars Galaxies

Posted by simoniker on Sunday October 26, 2003 @10:06PM from the all-publicity-is-good-publicity dept.

Tim Burke writes "I've got a piece up on my website that acts as a form of independent postmortem for Star Wars Galaxies, discussing my initial impressions and lasting conclusions on the PC MMORPG." Burke argues cogently enough that SWG lead designer Raph Koster comments that it's a "good essay" over at GameGirl Advance, despite direct criticism of his team as having a "prevailing assumption... that players make content, not designers", and the suggestion that Koster is "muleheaded" about "the importance of creating a sense of achievement in a persistent world entirely through barriers of time and repetition."

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Re:Ralph Koster by will_die · 2003-10-26 23:32 · Score: 2, Informative

The reason raph is considered the worse thing to happen to UO is that it was not until he left and the stuff he had done was no longer in the pipline did game sales and population take off.
The same thing can be said about SWG, now that he has less contact alot of stuff is being proposed that is against what raph originally planned and is getting wide support and design.
BTW raph was put in charge of all SOE games and based on current messages in now messing with EQ2, he has delayed it to make changes he wants.