GAME Watch Interview with Special Task Force

[Corinth]

JP Button � GAME Watch Special Task Force Interview

Been working on this off and on the last few days and it's finally finished. Seems like good timing since they just released their report today.

Elmer did the two interviews GAME Watch did before with the development team. After that they released one they did with the STF as well that was conducted at FanFest.

Nothing terribly exciting but I like the interviewer. He plays FFXI and you can tell he's done interviews and covered FFXI stuff for awhile now. He was kind of pushy at times too which is refreshing for a Japanese interviewer.

[Lordwafik]

Sundi: Ah, yeah, I did let that slip. (laugh) We wanted to try it out a bit so we tested it on one world. Unfortunately, some users who had done nothing wrong ended up in jail. We had the same issue before where GMs would be thrown into jail. Because of that, we wanted to see what would happen now on a live server. Within about 10 minutes of turning on the system, 2 or 3 people ended up in jail. To those people, I’m really sorry.
Tanaka: As part of the game system itself, there is a certain special area where moving in a certain manner is part of the game. The people got caught from being there. The special area wasn’t excluded from being checked. (**Translation note: They are purposefully being vague.)

rofl, I know exactly what they're talking about.

The three people that got accidentally jailed are me and my 2 other friends who were in salvage. That "one server" was definitely asura then, and the zone that auto jailer made a mistake was in was salvage (we were porting up the portals in salvage).

[Devek]

Can someone double check to make sure something wasn't lost in translation?

GW: For example, in EverQuest 2, they increased the number of things that are instanced. Couldn’t you do something like that? Do you have no plans to increase server capacity?

Tanaka: Well, we could use faster machines but it would have a negative effect on game play. It could affect fighting over NMs, the exchange of items and gil, etc, and make the game harder to play. We also have to maintain the balance we currently have and keep all the playing conditions the same. There is a limit to the number of people who can be at one camp so that’s something we have to think about too. Technically, each world can handle 10000 users at one time. However, a single area has a limit of about 700. Any more than that and the game is harder to play. So if possible, we’d really like you, Mr. Nakamura (**the interviewer from GW), to consider moving servers as well. (laughs)

Are they saying that more people have an impact on gameplay or that faster machines would have an impact on gameplay?

I have always said that while SE has a lot of smart and talented people, they do not employ any good technical people. This goes too far. They can't use faster machines because it would break the game?

[Lordwafik]

Can someone double check to make sure something wasn't lost in translation?



Are they saying that more people have an impact on gameplay or that faster machines would have an impact on gameplay?

I have always said that while SE has a lot of smart and talented people, they do not employ any good technical people. This goes too far. They can't use faster machines because it would break the game?

Think to how overclocking your machine all of a sudden makes you "pos hack". It's probably along those lines.

[Corinth]

Can someone double check to make sure something wasn't lost in translation?



Are they saying that more people have an impact on gameplay or that faster machines would have an impact on gameplay?

I have always said that while SE has a lot of smart and talented people, they do not employ any good technical people. This goes too far. They can't use faster machines because it would break the game?

It's both. Letting more people on to a server would affect gameplay. That's in the second half of his answer. The first part is about using faster machines and that would also affect gameplay.

He doesn't go into details about how or why, just that if they used faster machines and didn't adjust the game for them (i.e. if they kept the game as it is now), the game would become harder to play in terms of NM hunting and trading items and gil.

Nothing was lost ^^;; Their answers just aren't always very clear or informative.

[Naash]

Well, for the bold part they're saying literally:

"It would be possible to use faster machines, but as long as game-wise the system doesn't change in terms of NM competition, items in circulation, gil [acquiring], etc, even if we changed machines, the game would still keep becoming a harder and harder environment to play in".

And this comes after a question about Odin's population, so I think the point they're trying to make is that making more events instanced wouldn't solve the issues of such overpopulated servers, as other general problems would remain anyway and keep aggravating over time, creating an even larger gap and unbalance with other servers.


EDIT: ah, I didn't see the above replies before posting. If my post can be of reference still...

[Tormentormike]

Thanks for the translation you guys over at JP Button.

It's reassuring that they're saying they have all these new tools to implement to get rid of everything the RMT are thinking of. I think it's pretty obvious on most servers that the RMT are (for the most part) gone.

Now if only they could make some healthy ways to introduce making gil to the economy. They just need to get rid of the idea that "Oh RMT do this, must get rid of it entirely." is the solution to everything. Next update they should probably just get rid of Alchemy...

Good work none the less.

[Elites]

So theyre saying, if people dont move to other servers because of congestion then we can be forced to leave our shells and friends.

http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/images/china-military.jpg

[Destinye]

So theyre saying, if people dont move to other servers because of congestion then we can be forced to leave our shells and friends.

http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/images/china-military.jpg

Once again, they gave the chance for people to move..NO ONE DECIDED TO. I'm sure people know this is common in even the real world..if you're asked to do something and you don't, the next measure is to force you to do something.


Anyway, thanks for the translation! That auto-jailer seems like it actually works even if it caught some innocent people in testing lol.

[Dezzimal]

Threatening server splits/forced moves isn't something I'd be worried about. Blizzard's said something similar a few times but has never made good on it despite a few unbelievably crowded and imbalanced faction servers.

[Sephiroth_Owa 13]

Well you gotta remember that we pay to use their char's on a game they made for the public, so in all senses they can move the chars whenever they please and all we can do about is bitch about or quit. Simple as that. No wants to leave their friends or shells....but, we as the players do have to try to help out when they ask people to move from a overcrowded server and not enough move well expect to see some people on your FL on different servers.

[ringthree]

Once again, they gave the chance for people to move..NO ONE DECIDED TO. I'm sure people know this is common in even the real world..if you're asked to do something and you don't, the next measure is to force you to do something.


Anyway, thanks for the translation! That auto-jailer seems like it actually works even if it caught some innocent people in testing lol.

Once again, your argument is retarded because you are saying that the people that have been on Odin since the beginning are somehow at fault for not transferring off when new people shifted over. Your argument is just as dumb as it was when you made it the first seven times.

[ringthree]

Well you gotta remember that we pay to use their char's on a game they made for the public, so in all senses they can move the chars whenever they please and all we can do about is bitch about or quit. Simple as that. No wants to leave their friends or shells....but, we as the players do have to try to help out when they ask people to move from a overcrowded server and not enough move well expect to see some people on your FL on different servers.

More like expect them not to be on your FL anymore.

Forcing transfers or splitting Odin is about the only thing that could ever cause me to quit this game. It would be like throwing away almost an entire servers worth of players. You are deluded if you think people this far into the game want to rebuild entire LS's and give up years of friendship.

[Destinye]

Once again, your argument is retarded because you are saying that the people that have been on Odin since the beginning are somehow at fault for not transferring off when new people shifted over. Your argument is just as dumb as it was when you made it the first seven times.

Since you seem to go throwing around the word dumb towards other people..considering it's typical of teens on the net to try to talk down to others, actually read. Did I ever say the original people who been there "since the beginning"? No.

Maybe you're the dumb one for not actually understanding what's being said..but that couldn't be it..no.

More like expect them not to be on your FL anymore.

Forcing transfers or splitting Odin is about the only thing that could ever cause me to quit this game. It would be like throwing away almost an entire servers worth of players. You are deluded if you think people this far into the game want to rebuild entire LS's and give up years of friendship.

See? You don't talk for everyone, there's people who quit awhile ago rejoining that has to rebuild from the ground up and even have to make new friends because a lot of their old ones are long gone.

If you quit, you quit, would anyone miss you? Probably not.

[ringthree]

LOL, Just LOL. Maybe you should read what YOU have written before criticizing anyone else's reaction.

[Sephiroth_Owa 13]

More like expect them not to be on your FL anymore.

Forcing transfers or splitting Odin is about the only thing that could ever cause me to quit this game. It would be like throwing away almost an entire servers worth of players. You are deluded if you think people this far into the game want to rebuild entire LS's and give up years of friendship.

I'm not really talking about that but more event ls's should sit down and talk to see if moving server...nvm that's bad right there cause of a people have more then 1 end game LS. I think it's sad that people like you and your friends might be forced to switch servers, but you only have SE and server transfers to blame....I understand your point 100% and you have every right to be upset.