EU Community Team in Tokyo

What the title says. Apparently they're collecting questions via the forum to ask the devs directly. Discuss!

What is there to discuss? You said everything there is to say.

I was more-so wondering if the NA team was going to do something similar.

Bayohne wasnnt online yesterday, so most likely they are.

I'd just like for them to show the dev team our Goblin Balloon Brigade idea. :D

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-goblin-airman

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Originally Posted by Buttons

I'd just like for them to show the dev team our Goblin Balloon Brigade idea. :D

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-goblin-airman

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Most definitely!

Let's see... generic questions generic questions...

Heya Yoshi-P!
When will we get Chocobos?

Heya Yoshi-P!
Will the Market Wards be here in the game in the future or it'll be scrapped?

Heya Yoshi-P!
We will get in some cases "Prizes" for accomplishing some Achievements. How will be prizing done and what will we receive most likely (in term of Type of object)?

Heya Yoshi-P!
Will we get classes that play Music or just the job Bard that plays music?

Heya Yoshi-P!
I finished my questions. Can you ask me a question?

Thanks earlier for the answers! See ya!

If they are going to do another QA, please for the love of god just dont freaking do it if we're going to get 'we'll look fuckin into it'? answers. 5 quality answers are probably more satisfying than the 150 we get from crafting and gathering QA.

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Originally Posted by Buttons

I'd just like for them to show the dev team our Goblin Balloon Brigade idea. :D

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-goblin-airman

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I concur!
/10char

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Originally Posted by Chardrizard

If they are going to do another QA, please for the love of god just dont freaking do it if we're going to get 'we'll look fuckin into it'? answers. 5 quality answers are probably more satisfying than the 150 we get from crafting and gathering QA.

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What else are they going to say if all we are doing is giving Recommendations?

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Originally Posted by Renshi

Let's see... generic questions generic questions...

Heya Yoshi-P!
When will we get Chocobos?

Heya Yoshi-P!
Will the Market Wards be here in the game in the future or it'll be scrapped?

Heya Yoshi-P!
We will get in some cases "Prizes" for accomplishing some Achievements. How will be prizing done and what will we receive most likely (in term of Type of object)?

Heya Yoshi-P!
Will we get classes that play Music or just the job Bard that plays music?

Heya Yoshi-P!
I finished my questions. Can you ask me a question?

Thanks earlier for the answers! See ya!

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This all sounds about par for the course. Although your accomplishment question isn't vague or generic enough.

and yoshi answer with

We will looking into it!~

They said they would not answer questions concerning the future of the game.

They want more personal questions about the development team, how they work, etc ...

As you can see, I am not Yoshi-P. I do, however, believe to have the faculty to respond to your questions and I will try to do so in the most in-depth matter that I can.

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Originally Posted by Renshi

Heya Yoshi-P!
When will we get Chocobos?

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"Please wait a little while longer"

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Originally Posted by Renshi

Heya Yoshi-P!
Will the Market Wards be here in the game in the future or it'll be scrapped?

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"Once the server adjustements have been done, you can ask me this again and I will tell you to please wait a little while longer"

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Originally Posted by Renshi

Heya Yoshi-P!
We will get in some cases "Prizes" for accomplishing some Achievements. How will be prizing done and what will we receive most likely (in term of Type of object)?

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"We will consider this"

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Originally Posted by Renshi

Heya Yoshi-P!
Will we get classes that play Music or just the job Bard that plays music?

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"Due to balancing issues we will not implement this"

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Originally Posted by Renshi

Heya Yoshi-P!
I finished my questions. Can you ask me a question?

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"Please wait a little while longer?"

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Originally Posted by Chinook

They said they would not answer questions concerning the future of the game.

They want more personal questions about the development team, how they work, etc ...

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Wow sure am glad they're spending their time playing Gossip Girl instead of working on the goddamn patch they've been promising for all of eternity now.

And yes that was an overstatement, just saying that before someone attacks me on the definition of "eternity" and designs a timetable to fully explain how indeed they did not promise the patch "eternity" ago.

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Originally Posted by Chinook

They said they would not answer questions concerning the future of the game.

They want more personal questions about the development team, how they work, etc ...

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I seriously hope this is inaccurate. I don't care about how the team works. I care about the quality of what they've finished.

Except they haven't finished anything yet.

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Originally Posted by Eekiki

I seriously hope this is inaccurate. I don't care about how the team works. I care about the quality of what they've finished.

Except they haven't finished anything yet.

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It seems to be fairly accurate, at least from the german topic: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...Team-in-Japan-!

Specifically the part that says:

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Bitte bedenkt, dass Fragen bezüglich der Zukunft des Spiels (Update-Zeitplan oder geplante Inhalte) höchstwahrscheinlich nicht beantwortet werden. Alle anderen, generellen Fragen an die Teammitglieder sind jedoch willkommen, genauso wie Fragen an bestimmte Personen. "

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Google Translates to:
Please remember that questions about the future of the game (or scheduled content update schedule) probably answered no. All other general questions to the team members are welcome, as are questions to specific people.

And of course Google is no source of good translation but I doubt the basic idea is far from the truth.

Aditionally in this post: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...664#post214664

The community rep mentions:

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Thank you again for all these questions (especially early in the morning!). Please continue

As announced at the beginning of this thread will be very difficult to get answers about the future of the game I know you are very likely to want to know what is being prepared, the improvements can be made ​​(both in servers that the game client), unfortunately most of the topics discussed are still under review, I will be impossible to provide a response on matters not finalized.

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Again this is google translator but it looks really accurate regardless.

So yeah basically no game news allowed, at all.

Well, basically they said they are at SE headquarters in Tokyo and will collect all of our questions until Thursday, then ask the devs about them. They really asked us NOT to ask questions about update schedules, future content, etc.
French players just started asking about that anyway and Germans didn't ask anything because they had no questions NOT concerning future content.
So the community rep said it's okay to ask about future content and release schedules because it's better than not asking anything, but most likely those questions won't be answered.

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Originally Posted by Atoli

Well, basically they said they are at SE headquarters in Tokyo and will collect all of our questions until Thursday, then ask the devs about them. They really asked us NOT to ask questions about update schedules, future content, etc.
French players just started asking about that anyway and Germans didn't ask anything because they had no questions NOT concerning future content.
So the community rep said it's okay to ask about future content and release schedules because it's better than not asking anything, but most likely those questions won't be answered.

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Yeah so basically they think we actually care about Yoshi's hobbies and Matsuda's pets rather than tell us what's gonna happen with the game we're trying to enjoy.

Good stuff.

I'll risk being called a fangirl and just say it:
What exactly do we want to ask they actually can answer?
Most things we want to know about, we already got an answer to:
Either "We are working on it." or "We'll think about it."
While this may sound like an excuse and running away from the question, not really giving us the feeling they really are working on it and not giving us a fixed date of release either, it actually answers the question.

I know people are getting impatient, but there's just no way to clearly say when something which takes a lot of programming/balancing/etc. will be ready for release.
So there are two ways to approach this: Either give the players some certain date to make them shut up, but get all of their rage when you are not able to stick to the date you set, or give the players no fixed date at all, let them keep ranting about how they and their wishes are ignored by you and without further notice, give them some nice updates they waited for. While I can't say I prefer any of these, it's obvious Yoshi-P's team decided to stick with the second version.
Meaning they won't tell us when something will be released or how it will be like.
So asking about it is pointless. But they still squeeze in some time for player's questions so we don't feel neglected, although they won't tell us fixed release dates or changes they may be planning, to not disappoint us if they are not able to live up to the expectations or finish the changes in time.

What's the point in asking the developers questions when their answers only lead to more questions?

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Originally Posted by Akira_Tenshi

What's the point in asking the developers questions when their answers only lead to more questions?

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So with this logic, science just became useless.

Too bad!

So rather than get patch 1.18 in July we're gonna get a fluff piece on the Lodestone about the community reps taking a field trip to Japan?

I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

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Originally Posted by Akira_Tenshi

What's the point in asking the developers questions when their answers only lead to more questions?

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This is the same excuse we got when we wanted answers on Lost... *shakes fist* xD "No point answering anything seeing as you'll just want to know more"... o.O so they turned around and said everything was just about the characters and the answers didn't matter... hmm, maybe they're distant relatives of SE^^ :D

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Originally Posted by Eekiki

So rather than get patch 1.18 in July we're gonna get a fluff piece on the Lodestone about the community reps taking a field trip to Japan?

I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

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I can already see it happening... The group photo outside some ramen place and the cheesy questions like "What's your favorite band?" or "How did you end up working in videogames?" and the ridicolous responses that slowly kill you inside while you read them.

You know, the kind of stuff you buy a $60 CE of a game for.

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Originally Posted by Colino

The group photo outside some ramen place and the cheesy questions like "What's your favorite band?" or "How did you end up working in videogames?"

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Hey, hey, now calm down:)
The European community reps are very motivated and ask the devs a lot of our questions, so even though I'm kind of sure they are in Japan because of work, I wouldn't begrude it to them if it was just a nice field trip.

Also, as far as I know there weren't any (or at least few) questions like this posted.
So maybe the devs will answer some of the game related questions when they see that's all the players wanna know about (although that it actually kind of rude of us).

Gotta agree with Atoli on European mods being really motivated to answer our questions.

They just told the truth, questions about the future would only get "We'll look into this" kind of answers.

I would like to know what each dev team members' favorite kind of ramen is, and what their thoughts are regarding the new Transformers movie.

Also, if they ate ramen while watching it, and if so, what is their favorite physical characteristic of Michael Bay.

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Originally Posted by Atoli

Hey, hey, now calm down:)
The European community reps are very motivated and ask the devs a lot of our questions, so even though I'm kind of sure they are in Japan because of work, I wouldn't begrude it to them if it was just a nice field trip.

Also, as far as I know there weren't any (or at least few) questions like this posted.
So maybe the devs will answer some of the game related questions when they see that's all the players wanna know about (although that it actually kind of rude of us).

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no it is not rude at all. i don't care what hobbies the guy on the assembly line building my car has. i care about the car they are building because that is the product i am after. if they were a friend i'd look at it otherwise, but they are a company making a product that they want us to pay for so they should be treated as such.

This is kind of a forced example, but..if there is a famous musician, most people mainly care about the music he's making, because that's what they want to buy (does not matter if they buy CDs or songs from the Itunes store).
Still, there's a big group of people interested in the likes and dislikes of this person, his hobbies, pets, whatever.

Game developers may not be celebrities, but maybe someone really is interested in this stuff?^^°

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Originally Posted by Atoli

This is kind of a forced example, but..if there is a famous musician, most people mainly care about the music he's making, because that's what they want to buy (does not matter if they buy CDs or songs from the Itunes store).
Still, there's a big group of people interested in the likes and dislikes of this person, his hobbies, pets, whatever.

Game developers may not be celebrities, but maybe someone really is interested in this stuff?^^°

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but in this case the musician is "final fantasy" and the developers are the roadies that set things up behind the scenes as well as the producer that sets up their events. people may care about the musician, but could care less about the setup crew. sure it takes them to get the event put together to go smoothly, but you only care about the finished product.