EU Community Team in Tokyo

[Atoli]

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?"

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).

[darkstarpoet1]

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).

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.

[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?^^°

[darkstarpoet1]

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?^^°

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.