| EQ gameplay wasn't even close to being fun. What you see as "fun" was when you finally managed to get through a grind or get a nice reward or accomplished something that others failed to do. For a marathon runner, running isn't fun. Fun is when he reaches the goal, the endorphines kick in and he wins a medal on top of it. EQ players are all undercover marathon runners who are either too fat or too lazy to leave the house. If you don't believe me, how about you resubscribe and play another char to lvl 70 and 1500 AAs...
Anyways, back to Koster. I have spend my extremely valuable time to browse through some of the stuff on his webpage and I have to correct my opinion him. The guy isn't a complete idiot and he certainly spend some time on thinking about games in general. Maybe not as long as I did, but long enough to come to non-trivial conclusions. He is definitely wrong in many areas (like game success states), but he also has some good points (like trivial games don't challenge people).
I see him as a guy whose opinion I can respect at least and it would certainly be interesting to hang out with him and talk about games and why he failed to implement his own ideas to the games he was responsible for.
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All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident - Arthur Schopenhauer
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