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Raph Koster
Raph Koster
Game designer, author, speaker
  • Saying this once, slowly and clearly

    Hours February 3, 2006 Categories Misc
    Comments 3 Comments

    Recently there has been a rash of posts here about SWG and the NGE, and wishing for the pre-CU version of the game, and so on.

    I understand and appreciate that some players want changes. I get your passion. I even feel proud and humbled at the same time that you show so much enthusiasm for work that I was involved in.

    This is not the right place for those posts. This is my personal website. You may have noticed that I don’t put up SOE press releases either. It is easy enough to deduce the reasons why this is so. They are all fairly obvious reasons: professionalism, contractual obligations, blogging policies, company codes of conduct, and so on.

    Comments will be locked on this thread, because this isn’t really up for discussion; it’s just how it is. If you like the blog, and enjoy the interactions, you need to realize that these are the parameters under which I write, and I hold myself to strict standards on these things.

    Now, back to your regularly scheduled occasional acoustic music and sunday poems. Film at 11.

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  • Rep systems

    Hours February 2, 2006November 14, 2014 Categories Game talk
    Comments 43 Comments

    Gamasutra -Soapbox – “Designing an MMORPG Feedback Rating System” is an article by David Edery on how we should make use of reputations systems in MMOs.

    Dude, I’ve tried…! It’s a wonderful excuse to dump some accumulated knowledge on you.

    Here’s some of the things that people don’t tend to realize in working in this space.

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  • A guild trademarks its name

    Hours February 2, 2006 Categories Game talk
    Comments 76 Comments

    I actually heard about this a while ago, but now that it’s on their website, I guess I can post about it.

    The Syndicate® is a long-standing guild — they just celebrated their 10th anniversary (I got a birthday card, in fact).

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  • Tapping Guitar Hero

    Hours February 2, 2006 Categories Game talk
    Comments 8 Comments

    Oh yeah. Never even occurred to me, but why not?

    (You won’t hit that part until you’re 3/4 of the way through the video).

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  • Monthly report: January 2006

    Hours February 1, 2006March 1, 2006 Categories Open thread
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    Two thousand and six! Whatta year. Another thirty-and-one days gone by, and naturally enough, that means another monthly report, chockablock with uninteresting statistics, reminiscences of days gone by so recently that you haven’t had time to forget them, and of course, everyone’s favorite: goofy search strings. Hold on to your hats, be they homburg or cloche…

    In December, I reported that approximately 12,000 enlightened souls visited the blog. This month, I’m pleased to report that 19,500 presumably slightly-more-benighted ones did. On January 25th there were in fact almost 4800 visitors, thanks to Zonk Slashdotting a fairly inconsequential post. Generally speaking, though, the number of visits saw a healthy trend upwards, and for the latter half of the month ran in the mid-2000’s every day.

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