If you are going to do a Live Letter

[Mahrze]

The big takeaway for me from this whole thing is that if they aren't gonna provide the detailed translations someone in the community will.

Which is technically the point of contention. And why since a long while I have been partisan of just dropping live letters and do the content in a more "Nintendo Direct" Format with actual details instead of 3 hrs of ambiguous banter with very few things disclosed because its spoiler/surprise/secret/shenanigans. Even more so if its condition seems to be "Yoshi has to say it".



I do appreciate the people who go out of their way to translate as much as they do, but you'd think SE would put a bit more effort in the translation/summary being available sooner, if not dev blogs with hints.

[Noitems]

Which is technically the point of contention. And why since a long while I have been partisan of just dropping live letters and do the content in a more "Nintendo Direct" Format with actual details instead of 3 hrs of ambiguous banter with very few things disclosed because its spoiler/surprise/secret/shenanigans. Even more so if its condition seems to be "Yoshi has to say it".



I do appreciate the people who go out of their way to translate as much as they do, but you'd think SE would put a bit more effort in the translation/summary being available sooner, if not dev blogs with hints.

I'll admit that they should have had a summed up dev blog entry coinciding with the PLL released minutes after. Maybe have it written before hand for the main details and leave the Saito/Taro notes in an edit.

[Mahrze]

I'll admit that they should have had a summed up dev blog entry coinciding with the PLL released minutes after. Maybe have it written before hand for the main details and leave the Saito/Taro notes in an edit.

This is entirely my opinion so feel free to flame it but:

The way I see LLPs at this point is more of Yoshi having to be "the first" to reveal/disclose to the players/audience information or be the face of it. And while I understand that he's the face that revided the game, that age is long passed. LLPs are 1-2 hrs that can usually be summed up in 20 mins or (very much likely) less since he tries to keep things as vague as possible to not take away from the hype until said patch.

I'd rather see a "Nintendo Direct"-like format maybe 2 weeks before every patch, detailing what's coming for the actual patch it addresses. They keep the hype train, they can have it available in various languages and I am sure its less time consuming and taxing for Yoshi, Foxclon and the gang.

For something like the chat with Taro? Similar to a podcast interaction and the like.

They don't complain on the forums. Have a visit to 2chan or unofficial forums and you'll find JP is not nearly as saintly and quiet as people like to portray.

Always amusing people think the JP community doesn't carry salt bags with them. "The grass is always greener on the other side" alright.

[Noitems]

This is entirely my opinion so feel free to flame it but:


The way I see LLPs at this point is more of Yoshi having to be "the first" to reveal/disclose to the players/audience information or be the face of it. And while I understand that he's the face that revided the game, that age is long passed. LLPs are 1-2 hrs that can usually be summed up in 20 mins or (very much likely) less since he tries to keep things as vague as possible to not take away from the hype until said patch.


I'd rather see a "Nintendo Direct"-like format maybe 2 weeks before every patch, detailing what's coming for the actual patch it addresses. They keep the hype train, they can have it available in various languages and I am sure its less time consuming and taxing for Yoshi, Foxclon and the gang.


For something like the chat with Taro? Similar to a podcast interaction and the like.

Not at all, everyone is allowed to an opinion.

I'm sure part of it is SE wanting them to be the main source of the info, with experiences like Blufever being frowned upon by him since they take the wind out of their sails. They could def manage to sum it up since it seems like they play it by ear and many people do lose interest from over time. Heck I could honestly hear the people in my discord just wonder when it would end since it did go on a bit.

I'd say for most people the PLL is just the slides, and they could def do with making them much faster, since that is the meat for many people. I'm not sure on Yoshi-P, Foxclon and everyone else's opinions on doing the PLL but to me I really enjoy them because of that stuff. There's something about seeing them actually take the time out of their day to be on stream, sometimes they read the comments on stream and make their own, or we get things like the banished IT guy from the Shadowbringers battle change PLL.

I don't know of too many devs who would go that far to relay the information in the way they do, but since the game itself is a MMO I think they want to make as personal as possible. I do love the Direct style things and I think in some ways they should adopt that as like an update style for 5.05 or so, but the PLL is something nice to have at least imo.

[Mahrze]

I don't know of too many devs who would go that far to relay the information in the way they do, but since the game itself is a MMO I think they want to make as personal as possible. I do love the Direct style things and I think in some ways they should adopt that as like an update style for 5.05 or so, but the PLL is something nice to have at least imo.

I agree a PLL/LLP is always nice to see ever so often. But much of it could easily be better in an offline format. and maybe keep the live ones for the big events like fan fests and the mediatour hypes?


For everything else, there's mastercard. /joke