It's been posted in news articles around, but I didn't know it until a few days ago.
He's just getting started so there's no info other than the $2.7 million seed money, and a few top hires.
I'm extremely excited. Not only is Raph experienced and very knowledgeable, this is his own company and he doesn't have to follow orders from above, or work with others who don't see eye to eye with him on "Sandbox Worlds."
I've been waiting for this for a long time.
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https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2019/10/03/ultima-online-designer-raph-koster-making-new-sandbox-mmo/
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It's seed money from an investor who's made their money from, I believe, arena game investments?
But the point is that they may invest more when criteria are met. That's often the way that works.
Besides that, are there any crowd funded MMORPGs that started out with this kind of seed money?
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Logic, my dear, merely enables one to be wrong with great authority.
Remember Raph's long ago comment in game design, "Players are your enemy"?
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Regardless of the talent Raph might manage to bring on board, if he starts to recruit people like Hartsman, this studio will be dead to me before they even begin.
IDC how experienced Koster is,show me something good and i might care.Ultima ok that was a long time ago,those designs are extremely outdated now,not nearly good enough but hey it was good for it's time.Star Wars galaxies,another outdated game.Name me two things from SWG i would want to play in my game?
IDK maybe he can do something good for the mmorpg genre,maybe he can't,but his name alone is not going to do a single thing for me.
2.7 mil...lmao what is that going to do,pay the hydro bill for a couple years?If it is a second Life type game,then lol yeah another has been like Lord British.
The top end BIG business developers are not even going for AAA games,NONE of the Indie or kickstarter,crowd funded devs are managing AA games.There is a whole lot of rubbish in the market of gaming.
I often try surfing through Steam and it is one big cesspool of trash bin games.I could compile 500 games on Steam and altogether wouldn't be worth a red penny.So to think this koster guy comes along with very little money and nothing to show that is AAA for a VERY long time and is going to save the gaming market is laughable.
He deserves NO HYPE,let him prove what he can do then i will high five him...or not.
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One could say "so excited about this as it's 2020 and we finally have the announcement of a new mmorpg in the works!"
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Logic, my dear, merely enables one to be wrong with great authority.
If a person can run a business but has no idea how to make a game then why in the world would I invest in them? "Great!" they can manage their money. Right up until the point where the game falters and fails.
Conversely, if they can make a game but can't run a business then of course that's an issue. What needs to be looked at is the company as a whole. Though apparently he was in charge of business development for Sony Online Entertainment for a bit.
Godfred's Tomb Trailer: https://youtu.be/-nsXGddj_4w
Original Skyrim: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/109547
Serph toze kindly has started a walk-through. https://youtu.be/UIelCK-lldo
Now, the MMORPG world is gonna get a beatin'!
And he'll (Raph) save the reputation!
- Al
Personally the only modern MMORPG trend that annoys me is the idea that MMOs need to be designed in a way to attract people who don't actually like MMOs. Which to me makes about as much sense as someone trying to figure out a way to get vegetarians to eat at their steakhouse.- FARGIN_WAR
All the things that made it a sandbox? I'm guessing you never played SWG.
I like Koster, he's smart and seems nice.