Raph Koster Interview @ GameSpot

GameSpot has interviewed Raph Koster following the recent Austin Game Developers Conference, covering a range of industry issues and his own future:

GS: Now, when you left Sony, they said that your strategic goals didn't match theirs, and I'm wondering if you can give me the capsule version of how they differed.

RK: The things I'm really interested in doing, and for that matter the things that the startup are going to be centered around, are essentially not really things that fit into the standard publisher model at all. So I'm interested in doing things that go more mass market--significantly more mass market than what we tend to even think of as mass-market games. And I'm just not really in the mindset of making MMORPGs anymore. I'm still interested in making online worlds, but I'm really interested in making very different kinds of worlds than just MMORPGs.