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AGDC07: What Are the Biggest Online Opportunities?

September 7th, 2007

My last session was this very lively panel with John Blakely (SOE Austin), Mark Jacobs (EA Mythic), Erik Bethke (GoPets), and moderated by Matt Firor. It was a blast.

Note, Gamasutra misattributes one quote, and VWN claims that it was John Smedley, not John Blakely. :)

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  1. Lag-O-Rama wrote on

    of the fact that most game companies might not be seeing the entire picture out there) was part of a panel at the Austin Game Developers Conference 2007 on the subject of opportunities for game developers…he’s got links to coverage of that panelhere.

  2. RLMMO :: View topic - Austin GDC stuff wrote on

    [...] Panel I was on about big gaming opportunities: http://www.raphkoster.com/2007/09/07/agdc07-are-microtransactions-the-future-of-mmo-games-kotaku/ Special note: at conferences, I often say stuff to be provocative. So believe me, games aren’t [...]

  3. Areae, Inc. » Blog Archive » Areae at AGDC wrote on

    [...] panels that Raph participated in were Startup Lessons from Recent Online Games and Where Are the Biggest Online Gaming Opportunities?. In addition, You can read Raph’s general AGDC wrapup [...]

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  1. simonc said on

    Which quote was misattributed? Will fix!

  2. Raph said on

    Jacobs raised issues with microtransactions relating to the value of the items sold, and Bethke chimed in: “Whatever you write in your EULA is your best wish, but we have hundreds of years of English common law about transactions.”

    “We really really really have to make a distinction between the concept of microtransactions — which means spending a tiny amount of money — and the ownership of digital assets,” Bethke stressed. “They are not the same thing. We cannot equate them.” He added, “Betting the farm on business models instead of audiences and consumer needs is always a bad idea.”

    First paragraph was indeed Erik. Second paragraph was me, though. :)

    Generally speaking, Erik and I were enough in sync through the whole thing that it’s a pretty easily understood mistake! :) (Just got back from dinner & drinks with him & others…)

  3. simonc said on

    Aha, thanks for the heads-up – the mind meld is now reversed.

  4. Morgan Ramsay said on

    Explain that logic, you bloody Vulcan!

  5. Michael Chui said on

    First thing I noticed about Kotaku’s post was that he misspelled your last name at first. =P

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