What Raph Koster thinks about taste

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Game designer and theorist. Lead designer of Ultima Online and creative director of Star Wars Galaxies, author of A Theory of Fun for Game Design, and founder of Playable Worlds. Has written about game design, virtual worlds and online communities at raphkoster.com since 1998.

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3 Nov 2025

Our readingLavish feedback wrapped around no real problem is shallow entertainment at best and exploitation at worst.

Their wordsAt minimum you’re making shallow entertainment. At worst, you are building exploitative entertainment.

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