Dunno if this has been posted before but I found it quite informative.

 

https://www.raphkoster.com/games/presentations/scifi-mmps-lessons-learned/

 

Runtime for the audio file is a little over one hour.

Heya!

I think i know all of these interviews, articles etc.

Smedley was clueless and poison to SWG...well, basically to every MMORPG.

 

Thats why i joined the SWG-Emu team for a bit as a coder/Dev before i moved on to the EnB-Emu - i just wanted to show Smedley, that he was so uber/very wrong when he said in an interview, he doubt the Emu community will ever get an EMU going.

Ultima, TheAnswer and Oru were mainly running the developement at this time.

 

Anyway...thats past...history - but was fun!

I'm glad to see others out there follow Raph's website.

On 4/1/2018 at 6:34 AM, Zackman said:

Heya!

I think i know all of these interviews, articles etc.

Smedley was clueless and poison to SWG...well, basically to every MMORPG.

 

Thats why i joined the SWG-Emu team for a bit as a coder/Dev before i moved on to the EnB-Emu - i just wanted to show Smedley, that he was so uber/very wrong when he said in an interview, he doubt the Emu community will ever get an EMU going.

Ultima, TheAnswer and Oru were mainly running the developement at this time.

 

Anyway...thats past...history - but was fun!

He was very wrong on that account. I also play on the SWG EMU and they have almost gotten the entire base game completed and are beginning to work on JTL. I am loving that both of my favorite games have come back and with a ferocity. Long live both of the EMU's.

Interview with Louis Castle, cofounder of Westwood Studios.

Timestamp starts the video at the EA takeover and Earth & Beyond related portion of the interview.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXbXwDsasgs&t=5464s