Blue Gartr Interview Transcription

[Munba]

Interesting interview, thx. Alt+tab and directx 11 are the best part.

[Jinko]

WHAT !! no botched synthesis, hip hip horay !

Take the last of your shitty system with you Tanaka.. !

I really like how open Yoshida is being with these question, everything he said makes total sense and I agree with his replies, especially about the addon stuff.

[Teakwood]

This interview -owns-. Yoshida, Sonomaa, you guys both rock my world. Questions that needed to get asked got asked! And actually answered! Is this really SE?

I'm even more hyped now. xD

[Keftenk]

Tanaka would have danced around these questions for sure. Yoshida such a bad ass lol.

[Sojiro]

BG did not pull any punches with the questions, and follow ups on some of the answers. Props to them for that! Things like this just reassure me that Yoshi-p really "gets it" to turn this game around.

[neorei]

http://ffxiv.zam.com/story.html?story=28045


zam interview

[Belial]

BG: We did an informal poll on our forums about the decision to charge for the game, and 70% of our users that voted in the poll were very against being charged a fee. However, when I brought up just as a side-question, what would they feel about paying, say, half that cost, while in this early developments stage, most were not against paying half for what they perceived as a half-finished game. But they also understand that what happens in FFXIV-I is not necessarily the same as FFXIV-II.

SE: It's interesting to hear that the player base was against it, but when offered paying half that more were for it.

BG: Yeah, to them it's still half of what they wanted, when the game was still released. So only paying half is like the beta phase/beta 2 phase. They were, "I can stand $6-$7 instead of $14."

SE: We went over many options when deciding to start the subscription system again. Maybe charging half, maybe charging less, maybe extending the free period. There's many options. The reason we decided to start the subscription system and charge the price we're charging is that, one of the things is players playing now, others players go "Why are you playing this game? It's not done." Maybe charging less for it, you get the sense, "Oh, it's still not done and you're still not getting a full product." This is our roadmap. This is what we're going to do. We're getting the players opinions and reflecting them in the game. We're also working to give players beyond even what they expect with update content, such as the realtime events that you will not be able to play anywhere else. We have to show the players that we'll be accepting money from you now, so now we have to work even harder in order to give you more than what you get for your money. But you went ahead and you had this poll and we know that you're a good group of hardcore players that have been there a long time. So we are taking this poll to heart and discuss this again and see if this is an option for us. We will then get back to the players and decide.

I think this part is extremely interesting as it pertains to possible changes in how/when they may bill.

[Tsukino]

Seriously, you can't turn off the "we are God's gift to MMO players and you owe us everything" even for an interview?

The questions were good ones and the responses were interesting but the attitude was painful to read.

[Belial]

Seriously, you can't turn off the "we are God's gift to MMO players and you owe us everything" even for an interview?

The questions were good ones and the responses were interesting but the attitude was painful to read.

And you can't turn off the "OMGZZZZZ I care too much about what other people do in a virtual worldddddddd" even for a thread?

Seriously, you folks who harp about the most asinine aspect of things sound exactly like the people you are so adamantly against.

[Alegis]

WoW crafting system is winning? Hell, i hope Yoshida dont turns this game into a WoW 2.0 because they think the BG ppl are talking for the majority....

Yes, the crafting in XIV is boring, but better than this worthless easy-prey crap from WoW.