So, I do like the Reps, but Duty Commence seems pretty, lackluster.

[Akujin]

Congratulations, you've completely missed the point of Duty Commenced.

I can probably try to explain what it's really about, but you'd probably misunderstand that as well.

Thanks for not being hostile or having thinly veiled insults in your response.

Oh wait. Maybe I do understand somethings.

[Kassiekane]

Thanks for not being hostile or having thinly veiled insults in your response.

Oh wait. Maybe I do understand somethings.

...well ..I do apologize for the unnecessary insult. /shame

But still, I'm not sure where you get the idea that duty commenced is another form of the live letters. Its simply community devs interacting with the community. If they give information, cool. If they don't, wait until the next live letter. IMO I think that more MMOs should have community reps interacting with the community outside of brief responses in threads.

[Akujin]

...well ..I do apologize for the unnecessary insult. /shame

But still, I'm not sure where you get the idea that duty commenced is another form of the live letters. Its simply community devs interacting with the community. If they give information, cool. If they don't, wait until the next live letter. IMO I think that more MMOs should have community reps interacting with the community outside of brief responses in threads.

I'm not sure if you watched the last one that just concluded, I was, which is where this comes from.

Numerous times Bayohne was edging around certain things, but having to edge carefully, playfully, simply acting as a teaser. Which is just silly, we have the teases already, included in the Tokyo FATE earlier in the month, plus the announcement of the Live Letter that airs next week, with points highlighted on it. So what I'm proposing, is before they announce they are going to have a Live Letter with specific bullet points, that they instead collaborate within their own teams and determine, ultimately by the Director's approval, which information should go where, based on a priority list. For instance - Novus weapons, Ramuh, new Dungeon, Crystal Tower information. These BIG points for content should be reserved for the big segment of information, the Live Letter. Smaller (if it is, likely is) contents, such as the Daily Hunts, could be discussed during the Duty Commence, followed up later on the forums, so people have a taste of what we're expecting, without trying to lump information into the Live Letter, which would also allow more Q&A time between the Director and his players by Twitter and Forum comments, instead of limiting it to maybe 5-8 questions out of hundreds due to the limited amount of time they're giving themselves with everything else they want to cram into their LL segment.

Point is, right now, the Duty Commence is a bunch of banter coming from the 3 Reps (Still amusing, don't get me wrong, I laughed), but it's hardly worth the resources they're trying to funnel into it if they can't actually discuss upcoming content.

[Kassiekane]

Episode 2 was the first one I saw, and yes I agree the giveaway event was unfair.

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Once again, you're expecting announcements from community devs. Think of them as an extension of the forums. Information, regardless of announced by community reps or not, comes from the devs. Although I do agree they need to make more time for Q&A.