I don’t think they’re ever going to make an online game that isn’t the playspace of right-libertarians because that’s the dominant ideology of the people making the games for the forseeable future. People like Ralph Koster get ignored and treated as annoying or crankish when they talk about online ethics in games and how much more dynamic and robust the MUD/early-MMO space was in terms of taking online games as a new frontier seriously rather than simulated dimensions for christian-libertarians.
The studio are all Swedes. They’re probably socdems.
Also the game they wanted to make in the first place was purely PVE cooperation game. They pivoted to pvp with only 6 months remaining before planned release, it was not in their original plan at all.
I believe that they might consider this.
I do like Koster though. Even if he is a bit bought in on AI-brain techbro shit, he fundamentally likes communities and positive emergent player interactions.
I don’t think they’re ever going to make an online game that isn’t the playspace of right-libertarians because that’s the dominant ideology of the people making the games for the forseeable future. People like Ralph Koster get ignored and treated as annoying or crankish when they talk about online ethics in games and how much more dynamic and robust the MUD/early-MMO space was in terms of taking online games as a new frontier seriously rather than simulated dimensions for christian-libertarians.
The studio are all Swedes. They’re probably socdems.
Also the game they wanted to make in the first place was purely PVE cooperation game. They pivoted to pvp with only 6 months remaining before planned release, it was not in their original plan at all.
I believe that they might consider this.
I do like Koster though. Even if he is a bit bought in on AI-brain techbro shit, he fundamentally likes communities and positive emergent player interactions.