EU Community Team in Tokyo

[Atoli]

I'll risk being called a fangirl and just say it:
What exactly do we want to ask they actually can answer?
Most things we want to know about, we already got an answer to:
Either "We are working on it." or "We'll think about it."
While this may sound like an excuse and running away from the question, not really giving us the feeling they really are working on it and not giving us a fixed date of release either, it actually answers the question.

I know people are getting impatient, but there's just no way to clearly say when something which takes a lot of programming/balancing/etc. will be ready for release.
So there are two ways to approach this: Either give the players some certain date to make them shut up, but get all of their rage when you are not able to stick to the date you set, or give the players no fixed date at all, let them keep ranting about how they and their wishes are ignored by you and without further notice, give them some nice updates they waited for. While I can't say I prefer any of these, it's obvious Yoshi-P's team decided to stick with the second version.
Meaning they won't tell us when something will be released or how it will be like.
So asking about it is pointless. But they still squeeze in some time for player's questions so we don't feel neglected, although they won't tell us fixed release dates or changes they may be planning, to not disappoint us if they are not able to live up to the expectations or finish the changes in time.

[Akira_Tenshi]

What's the point in asking the developers questions when their answers only lead to more questions?

[Betelgeuzah]

What's the point in asking the developers questions when their answers only lead to more questions?

So with this logic, science just became useless.

Too bad!

[Misha]

What's the point in asking the developers questions when their answers only lead to more questions?

This is the same excuse we got when we wanted answers on Lost... *shakes fist* xD "No point answering anything seeing as you'll just want to know more"... o.O so they turned around and said everything was just about the characters and the answers didn't matter... hmm, maybe they're distant relatives of SE^^

[Eekiki]

So rather than get patch 1.18 in July we're gonna get a fluff piece on the Lodestone about the community reps taking a field trip to Japan?

I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

[Colino]

So rather than get patch 1.18 in July we're gonna get a fluff piece on the Lodestone about the community reps taking a field trip to Japan?

I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

I can already see it happening... 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?" and the ridicolous responses that slowly kill you inside while you read them.

You know, the kind of stuff you buy a $60 CE of a game for.

[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?^^°

[Chinook]

Gotta agree with Atoli on European mods being really motivated to answer our questions.

They just told the truth, questions about the future would only get "We'll look into this" kind of answers.