INTERVIEW !!!!!!!!!! MAKE IT STICKY OR BURN :P

[Warthog]

Seriously I will keep in touch with em. Since I wanna keep playing this game and not plan to quit soon. Duno... sure they wont change stuff right away, it DOES need a lot of testing to change shit.

Yup, time will tell.

A gate like Assault has soomewhere in Vanadiel. ectect

That'd be cool. The fact that they'll be taking ideas into consideration is reason enough to have hope.

I won't let the bubble go pshhhhh..... I will spam them if needed.
But I doubt I will have to do that, since they usually cooperated with me so far.

I duno why, but iam sure I will hear from them.

Good to hear.

And... All the pessimists here, just need to cry me a fucking river. If you don't have hope that changes will be made... why stick around? You're bringing us down. Comments like "phail"... "depressing"... and other negative comments toward the possible affects of this interview, belong somewhere else. Bercus spent a lot of time compiling everything, and he did a good job. At least show him some gratitude.... GOSH! I saw maybe 3 positive comments.

[Lordwafik]

that was depressing

saori looks moderately hot

I can show you the hot pics from 2006 GC later.
those were the babes from 2005....

http://people.freenet.de/DiamantLS/gc2005/girls.html

I dont know what you like, but Id rather hit those

The left-most one in this picture HAS A PENIS

http://people.freenet.de/DiamantLS/gc20 ... /abes4.JPG

[*Shinzon*]

I think the reason many of these questions are answered like this is because there is zero communication between the DEVs and the PR department. The devs must live in a glass box cut off from the rest of the world. But seriously it was well done but thats probably why nothing gets done around SE until the last minute or until its too late.

They just lack an internal communication system to get straight answers from one place to another. Sundi also makes no obvious attempt to learn about this shit either, hes more focused on getting publicity and then trying to string people along.

[bercus]

that was depressing

saori looks moderately hot

I can show you the hot pics from 2006 GC later.
those were the babes from 2005....

http://people.freenet.de/DiamantLS/gc2005/girls.html

I dont know what you like, but Id rather hit those

The left-most one in this picture HAS A PENIS

http://people.freenet.de/DiamantLS/gc20 ... /abes4.JPG

LOL i know I did edit HIM out but this is the old site I had up for the girls
You are a lucky man you didnt see her/him/it dance.......

[Ace_135]

http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/1407/duhtk4.jpg

[Toth]

Nice job with the interview but as expected, nothing was really answered. I am hopeful that SE at least takes some suggestions to mind, given that they claim to listen to fans' suggestions and these ideas were gathered from this board, which even they know is a big collection of high level players.

BTW Anyone else notice they used the term "Gilsellers" instead of "people who have an extraordinary amount of time to play?"

[Don Katsu]

I remember in the interview with BG you said something will be done, yet nothing has been done
(Sage Sundi laughed; ) )
They talked like 1 minute in Japanese; I think it was too much information at that time
Bercus : do you want me to ask again?

Sundi: yeah

Bercus : Why do they not drop Items required for the next fight at a 100% rate?

(They talked about something in Japanese and English and were mentioning the storyline of cop)

Bercus : this has nothing to do with the story…. >.<

(I think they didn’t know what I was talking about >.<)

Saori : There could have been a reason why the Development team didn’t want at this time for the mobs to drop the items 100% and we can’t really answer the question at this point.

This is by far the best one of the best parts of the interview.

Good Job Bercus!

[Kyreth]

Sundi knows nothing....

Or knows what he has been told....

When I talked to him, I couldn't believe the lack of knowledge about this own companies' game.

As I've said, one too many blows to the head already. That and players in ANY MMORPG understand gameplay far, far better than the devs do. It must be some sort of immutable law.

The games that are closest to breaking this law are the ones where the devs play and play often- City of Heroes, and perhaps Vanguard/pre-Aradune leaving EQ (I hung out with the guy for a few hours when his guild was doing Cazic-Thule on Firiona Vie, back in the day- so I know he played and knew WTF he was doing).

Sage Sundi needs to be forcibly strapped down into leveling a job to 75 the hard way, shanghaied into some of BG's HNM battles/claimfests, and learn the game and it's sore points the only way possible. Experience.

This should in fact be a pre-requisite for any S-E rep that claims any authority whatsoever, and double for devs. Otherwise, expect bullshit one-line answers for all eternity. They may understand and know the stats, but their environmental awareness is nil.

[bercus]

I remember in the interview with BG you said something will be done, yet nothing has been done
(Sage Sundi laughed; ) )
They talked like 1 minute in Japanese; I think it was too much information at that time
Bercus : do you want me to ask again?

Sundi: yeah

Bercus : Why do they not drop Items required for the next fight at a 100% rate?

(They talked about something in Japanese and English and were mentioning the storyline of cop)

Bercus : this has nothing to do with the story…. >.<

(I think they didn’t know what I was talking about >.<)

Saori : There could have been a reason why the Development team didn’t want at this time for the mobs to drop the items 100% and we can’t really answer the question at this point.

This is by far the best one of the best parts of the interview.

Good Job Bercus!

When they started to give me answers the reason they dont drop 100% has to do something with the story line I looked at my friend, and this look means I want to bash my head against the wall.

I couldnt get to the point where Sundi said the the last BG interview that he cant tell us how but in some months we will find out new ways to obtain a Relic Weapon, duno what it was exactly I would just need another 30 minutes, hell I could go there again since the Convention is till Sunday, but NO way i drive again 7 hours total to get no answers.

[Don Katsu]

You broke their Auto-Translate function.

[GRT]

because SE thinks if they make things easier to get people will spend less time getting them and be on their way to the next MMO

not good for business :D

[Not Kuno]

Good stuff.

[Eternus]

I like how alot of their answers involved them not wanting to make the game easier. Of course time sinks are the answer on how to make a MMO more difficult. Well at least they said they are thinking about changing things in order to string us along. Anything to get us to pay our monthly fees for another 6 months or so. Hopefully the new yet to be revealed ToAU areas are hot shit.

[trencher]

Bercus gets a cookie. I do think you should have brought a wiffleball bat stuffed with wet newspaper and used it to excess though.

Sundi : conflicts between who….

[Isildur]

Good interview, its unfortunate that most of those responses dealt in "maybe's" and "i cant tell you's" but i think they're more concerned about releasing information that could be used to figure out shit like new content before its released. I was surprised to see they reacted well to the instanced fights and even took the diagram, hopefully they took it truly being interested and not just acted like they were then threw the diagram in the trash afterwards, Sundi said something earlier about how the dev team didnt intend everyone to get loot from 3 Kings but then they were all interested in the instanced idea later on...thats pretty contrasting if you ask me.

Saori seems to give more answers than Sundi does, but its still a "we cant tell you right now" kinda thing...the way that question about Jailers went, that was pretty akward, i dont know how they could truly misunderstand the concept of "drop rates suck, is there any plan to change this?" so i think it was more a way of avoiding the question.

I think they really are trying though, they're just afraid they will fuck up and break the game if they do something without making it foolproof first.

[Miji]

Well, at least when asked some of the questions they had answers for them. The last interview was all "maybe that could happen" or "I'll ask the dev team". When they say something is coming about an issue, it usually turns out true (just maybe not the way everyone wants, like the banning of the rmt bank mules instead of the rmt players).

I really think you should press hard about having a way to talk to the developers once a month or so. It's clear that the people you spoke to are pretty disconnected about how the game is played.

[Confucion]

I think the most exciting part of this was Bercus describing how they reacted to the 3 Kings sheet.

That interview was not only prefictable ( in answers given ), but very anti-climactic. Crytpic as usual we'll have to just wait it out and see.

[*Shinzon*]

Well theres a difference between actually doing something and saying they'll do something. Its like I said before I dont think they have a good communication system in the company to get ideas or suggestions from one place to another quickly. And in sundi's case they make no active effort to put pressure on getting answers.

[kearnsy]

Um I can't seem to find the Image or whatever it was you showed them. Would you mind reposting or whatnot?

[Don Katsu]

I think they really are trying though, they're just afraid they will fuck up and break the game if they do something without making it foolproof first.

I agree and I also think we should continue to spam them with the same ideas. They will have to give the players what they want at some point. It's just impossible to please thousands of people at one time.