In an online community, there's this kind of social economy between the community members. Some people have status because they make cool skins or that's a good website that's visited a lot, but there's no real gameplay there.

It used to be that you knew your neighbors and maybe your coworkers - the people in your physical vicinity.

I'm not saying we purposely introduced bugs or anything, but this is kind of a natural result of any complexities of software... that you can't fully test it.

I think the idea of having a game based on reality is compelling right off the bat because everyone has some experience with the subject of the game.

We have spent quite a bit of time considering a good space game, and I can't really say anything at this point, but we are definitely still interested in that area.

The big thing is that we have five percent or less of the hardcore players actively entertaining the other ninety-five percent.

Players like to know that they've discovered things that even the designers didn't know were in the game.