| Discussion with community team member Robert Peeler and FFXIclopedia’s Ganiman. | |||
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This week we’re excited to release the first episode in the Final Fantasy XI Community Team’s Podcast Tour!
Robert Peeler joins us along with Ganiman to discuss various topics about the community including collecting feedback, reading community forums, community sites and more! |
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Read on to see the winners of our giveaway!
Also please take the time to let us know what you thought about this episode and the podcast tour in general by filling out our survey here.
Our e-mail box was overflowing this week with questions, suggestions, and ideas for the community team! Thank you to everyone who sent something in!
Unfortunately there are only five people that can walk away with some prizes so lets see who the lucky winners are and what they had to say!
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Caateryna, Bismarck |
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Caateryna wrote in with the request of wanting the community podcasts to receive more exposure via the FFXI newsletter.
They also tell us a story about how they were very close to quitting the game. That was, until they discovered the FFXI podcasts. “Due to this aspect of the community, I don’t see myself ever leaving ffxi” We love hearing stories like this where the FFXI podcasts have brought in new players, or kept current playings going. Congratulations on your new Shadow Lord statue! |
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| Runner up prize | Anderina, Midgardsormor | |||
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Anderina wrote us to tell us of her favorite community moment: the iGames Tour in Rochester New York back in 2004!
It was the first time she had ever cosplayed. She enjoyed being able to meet people that played the game she loved and was even able to snag some autographs! She can’t wait for another oppurtunity to meet fellow players at an upcoming event. We’re excited to share with you pictures from Aderina’s trip to the iGames Tour event in New York! |
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| Runner up prize | Kincard, Leviathan | |||
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Kincard wrote us to give the community team some suggestions:
They would like to see not just the winners from the Art Contests, but from everyone who entered their work. They would also like to see more additions to the Final Fantasy XI Newsletter to make it more exciting to read. |
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| Runner up prize | Tamarsamar, Carbuncle | |||
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Tamarsamar wrote in to ask a question about something that was discussed back at the 2007 Fan Festival in Anaheim CA:
“I have once heard that players would, with the assistance of GMs, be able to organize events within their own community similar to the holiday events, except on a much smaller scale, of course. I have not heard anything about that since. Is S-E still offering something like that and do they have any plans to broadly advertize it?” Listen to the episode to find out the answer! |
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| Runner up prize | Vadiacuz, Valefor | |||
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Vad writes in to give some contest ideas to the community team that would explore different artistic avenues instead of just having the art contest.
The first idea is to have a screen shot contest. An idea would for it to have different categories such as “most entertaining”, “funniest” and “weirdest”. Vad’s second idea is to have a fan fiction contest! There are a lot of people out there that have blogs solely devoted to fan fiction and it would be great to get their work exposed to more of the community. |
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Music used in this weeks show:
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Fae, Part I: Autumn Squall | |
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Syara | |
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Diaphanous Skies (Original Version) | |
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Truth As Shibboleth (club version) |
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Tsuyu Fresh |
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Congrats Caat ….I wish I had won it
fantastic interview guys, was very very interesting
Great Job on the interview.
I feel like I got a lot of interesting information.
/cheer /hurray /psych Holy Moly I’m a happy happy Mithra
Thanks Foxx ^^
Fusion you jealous yet?
Also, according to Kallo, ShadowLord is a chick magnet, I hope he’s wrong…..lol!
Oh and the episode was great, i’m pleased and really hope this becomes a regular thing =^.^=
I’m only at about 30:00. So far I think it’s great that SE’s community team took this step to be guests on FF’s biggest podcasts and be more active in general (this is one of the few first of hopefully more baby-steps).
However, I do wonder a bit. It has been over 5 years since NA release, and these major “hey look I’m a real living person” community relation steps have just began. I think we can all agree that this was a long-time coming and it was their bad that it didn’t come sooner. I’ve got my fingers crossed, but I think it would be great if the community effort became more active and efficient.
Mr. Peeler was talking about some of the different tasks he has to undertake when he’s at his job. I’m wondering if there are too many distractions, especially since it’s mainly him and Mr. Hilton who get their ear onto the community. I think more important than topic posting, newsletters, or expo-visiting, is just reading and participating to the forums and talking with the dev team very regularly and without encumbrance.
Mr. Peeler was talking about “having to see the right people” to get certain topics on the POL site; the PW kill comes to mind). If such responsibility is placed on their job, it’s kinda lame that they don’t have the power to just do it. “Seeing the right people” sounds a bit bureaucratic.
But yeah chiefly I think even if it became a very bummish job, I’d imagine just sitting at one’s desk all day just reading and posting on forums, blog, etc, is primary, and then direct communication with the dev team a close secondary. Bridging the English:Japanese language barrier must be frustrating, I imagine. I wonder though if aside from that, the Japanese dev team does listen to the comments from gai-jin communities with an open ear and an open mind. So many in-game concerns seem to either get a blind eye or take forever to fix (hai2u, salvage duping). I wonder if the dev team has been taking their community lookouts and QA coordinators for ‘granite.’
Heh.. i played for 7 years.
@Caateryna, yes.. very very jealous