What Core Gamers Should Know About Social Games
[Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Metaplace.com founder Raph Koster. It originally ran on his personal site, and we’re reprinting it here with his permission.]
The culture clash between social games and core gamers was on full display at the Game Developers Conference. I have been called a traitor to the cause of core gamers, even. At the awards show, when a Zynga rep claimed the social games award for Farmville and did a little bit of recruiting from the stage, he was not only booed, but someone shouted out, “But you don’t make games!” This is a common sentiment out there in the usual gamer haunts.
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