What is the dev team up to today? Lets us see...

[Gun_Anam]

This is just an idea sparked by this comment by Lionix in the gathering thread:

Notice how this one has a lot of "We are" rather than "We will". Feels so much more satisfying, wonder if it's true. I'm actually a bit excited about reading the rest!

What I would give for a day at Square's and see how the work environment is... Really sounds like everyone is multitasking in full force, or the work force is 500 men strong.

Maybe I should go to that "So you get ONE wish" thread and make mine this one instead.

It made me think of the DVD provided with one of the Guild Wars collectors editions where they showed you around the office and how the staff did what they do. I was going to suggest something like this as it'd be nice to see what goes on in the office, but then I thought why not go one better?

Wouldn't it be nice to have a couple of webcams set up in the FFXIV dev office to stream to a webcam section on the lodestone so we can see the dev team hard at work and perhaps even catch some sneaky peeks at things being worked on?

I'd like to suggest this be taken into consideration as I'm sure I'm not the only one who is curious about what goes on over there.

What do you think?


Gun

[yukikaze_yanagi]

i think that would be a nice violation of privacy, they're basicly public surveillance cameras

[Gidonoidon_Sur]

I think this is one of those things a lot of us would enjoy and appreciate, but I just don't think it is going to happen. Think of a time where you under-delivered something or messed up a project and had to fix it. Would you want people now to watch your every move going forward? I don't think so. Adds unnecessary pressure and opens them to (more) criticism. Additionally, I think the team at Guild Wars has something they are really proud of and they are happy to share that stuff. I don't think that is the situation here.

[Kallera]

In a word, you're insane.

The dev team would be hounded at for work that is still in progress and not ready for release. The office workplace is not exactly the stuff of high adventure. Besides, I'm sure Japan has such things as MANAGERS to make sure they work in a timely fashion in nice, coherent, japanese.

Next you'll want bullwhips attached to robotic arms. Hanging swords on top of their keyboards. A running John Deere lawnmower in Bayohne's office!

[TirionCrey]

Lol yeah...this would go way too far xD

I don't want them to feel as they are being watched 24/7 just to check if they are still working on XIV.

[Anty]

i would quit a job if i had cameras all around me that are connected to the internet or viewable for the public...
I would be happy with some more detailed and concrete answers and updates rather then seeing them work...

PC+ person before it isnt like... very interesting to watch anyways

[AlexiaKidd]

Lol if they had webcams in the office then even if someone was working 8 hours straight and they stopped for a min to have a sip of coffee these boards would light up with people going mad about how SE are lazy and they sit around doing nothing all day.

[Sephr]

I realise this is a bit tenuous of a link, but does anyone else wish there was a 'Live Eorzea' similar to 'Live Vana'diel' from back on the POL website in the day? I can remember installing ToAU and watching it as it followed the community piling into Aht Urghan and exploring the new areas.

It'd be neat to have a camera watching random dungeon groups and open areas of Eorzea (although this would be after they'd FILLED it with stuff, might be a ways off...)

This thread just made me think of that :shrugs:

[Vahzl]

This was suggested in our office too, we all pretty much unamimously said no. Reason 1 being we deal with sensitive information, and should not be viewable by anyone other than us and other employees.

[Vahzl]

I realise this is a bit tenuous of a link, but does anyone else wish there was a 'Live Eorzea' similar to 'Live Vana'diel' from back on the POL website in the day? I can remember installing ToAU and watching it as it followed the community piling into Aht Urghan and exploring the new areas.

It'd be neat to have a camera watching random dungeon groups and open areas of Eorzea (although this would be after they'd FILLED it with stuff, might be a ways off...)

This thread just made me think of that :shrugs:

I remember that. I was on Vent with friends the day that ToAU was going live, and we were all watching the test realm with the GM's pottering about in the new zones. It was awesome, used to love watching Vana'diel Live!