Still Logged In: What Social VR and AR Can Learn from MMOs [video]

Since the page doesn't really call out who's speaking, the presenter is Raph Koster, who has a long history designing online games (including Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies) and writing about game design theory.

https://www.raphkoster.com/about-raph/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raph_Koster

Having worked at an MMO dev, I think this talk's praises and criticisms are all super on point. The social stereotypes of tech are I think even more pronounced in the games industry, and it would be super if everyone were this conscientious and their companies empowered all employees to have a voice about this kind of thing.

The pitfalls can so easily slip through into emerging social media forms. Making aware the lessons learned from the pioneering days of social videogames is definitely not an easy thing to do simply due to the elitism and proprietary nature prevalent in the games industry.

Fantastic video. As an industry it seems like we tend not to focus on the ethical implications of our work as much as we should. Zuck's response to the speaker (if true) is reprehensible.

> “What ethical implications?”

I burst out laughing at that. It ought not to surprise me that Mr. Zuckerberg is like that, and yet.

I wonder if future popular virtual worlds won't go more towards the 'abandon all hope ye who enter here'-kind of route. That being said, the premise of setting up AI Police in games to avoid abuse seems like an amazing project to work on.

This is an unbelievable good video. I just created an account here to say "thank you for sharing it!".

Does anyone have a transcript of this video?