Obviously not the Devs or Community Managers (or Moderators) in Japan, but for the North American/European team... It'd be cool if you guys could come and introduce yourselves, maybe tell us XIV'ers a bit about yourselves? :cool:
Meet the Devs! (?)
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03-16-2011, 08:55 AMBalbanesMeet the Devs! (?)
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03-16-2011, 08:59 AMviion
The whole "We will post, devs will talk, mods will talk" has been kind of fail so far. I thought they were ment to have a meeting every morning to discuss stuff - why hardly any reply?
I think theres been about 10 total replies? probably less. -
03-16-2011, 09:01 AMXenoIndeed it has. Most likely because of the disaster though. I think we'll see another Letter from the Producer in the next few days.Quote:
Originally Posted by viion
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03-16-2011, 09:01 AMSinzfeldt
Could be something to do with you know, the earthquake...
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03-16-2011, 09:10 AMVesper
EDIT: Because the Nation where the game originates from is in a crisis. Give it time. I have noticed most of the people who have posted have posted on multiple language forums. Likely we don't have many NA devs on here yet. It looks to me like a few people are just copy pasting premade stuff.
The forums are still fresh and in beta. Just give it time. -
03-16-2011, 09:11 AMviion
Ummm... Just to point out, I could understand the JAPANESE section not having mod activity and such but the English one? Germany? French? As far as I know all these countries are fine so why cant their mods post? Im sure not all mods for all regions are based in Japan.....
I'm posting cuse my countries fine, even the Japanese forum gets action from its members during the crisis.
Work hasnt stopped from the rest of the world. -
03-16-2011, 09:14 AMXenoThe guy Xophius posts a lot (he's a English mod)Quote:
Originally Posted by viion
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03-16-2011, 11:03 AMGalamantyl
The excuse is usually: "They're busy", but the real reason is: This company makes a lot of money, and no one working for them is going to risk their jobs accidentally saying something they aren't supposed to.
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03-16-2011, 11:19 AMCeltodeno
Thats a good point
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03-16-2011, 11:35 AMBalbanesHonestly, all I was hoping for here was something along the lines of:Quote:
Originally Posted by Galamantyl
Hi, I'm (insert name of Community Manager or Mod here), worked for Square for so and so years, done so and so while there, blah blah blah. Basically just an introduction, really. Not asking for insider details here, lol :) -
03-16-2011, 12:04 PMRandis
Are we talking about developer (people who actually work on the game, programmer, artists) or SE employer in general?
Coz usually marketing people, community manager and so on are not part of the development team and often (mostly when based in other countries) have no means of communication with the dev team other than maybe the project manager, producer.
Most developer usually take a look in official forums. Most people working in this industry love doing what they do and usually are much interest in some feedback from their fans and consumers.
You can assume that people look around the forums, however i would not expect any spontanious posts.
As pointed out earlier, all employees are usually under tight NDA, you may get tech support and moderation but i would not expect any other statements and info. -
03-16-2011, 12:08 PMBalbanes
Well really I intended this to be for the community managers and Mods (CMs show up in the Dev Tracker) - I know the actual game programmers are 1) dealing with the issues in Japan and 2) probably don't speak much English.
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03-16-2011, 12:10 PMLinkurrra
lol seriously? how can the Devs compete with a rabid community of thousands when they are just a mere 30-50 ppl?
I've seen enough in the Dev Tracker to know they are listening. But they really need to spend their time developing. Not to mention the developers natively speak Japanese, it takes alot of patience and effort for them to speak in english. Yeah they could just convert int google translator. But they don't, they take the time to translate their posts so they don't come out in broken english.
yeah they could post more, especially the community managers and moderators. Not so much the Devs. They do well, with what they do post! -
03-16-2011, 12:13 PMTonyMontanaImagine if they hired some people(forum mods) who spoke/read/wrote multiple languages fluently. Those people do exist.Quote:
Originally Posted by Linkurrra
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03-16-2011, 12:15 PMRandis
Yes they probably are not all fluent in english :) But i am sure they lurk in the forums sometimes :)
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03-16-2011, 12:31 PMLinkurrrayeah I'm aware those ppl do exist. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by TonyMontana
My point mainly was ppl just can't expect personalized responses to everything posted on a forum. I used to be a forum moderator. And you can try to read as much as you can till your eyes bleed. You'll never be able to read at the same rate ppl post on the threads.
In fact the Tagging system is the first I have seen on a forum. This works quite well for them to get focused feedback from the forums. As long as ppl don't abuse it.
But when I search by tags, you can almost setup RSS feeds on particular subjects! It makes reading topics on a forum far more efficient. And to be honest, cuts out most all the unnecessary "crap" other ppl post.