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Thread: Massively.com Interviews Means!

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    Funcom employee Massively.com Interviews Means!

    It's Anarchy Online month over at Massively.com, and Justin "Syp" Olivetti (AKA The Game Archaeologist) recently sat down with AO game director Colin "Means" Cragg for an interview looking back at some of the history of Anarchy Online and chatting about the future of our favourite sci-fi MMORPG. To read more, visit the following link: Massively.com Interview with Colin "Means" Cragg

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    *Insert mass praise for a browser here*
    Hi I'm Carl!

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    Browser sounds very interesting... may i ask for iTunes/Winamp Plugin then once you are at work

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    Wow, new engine beta this year! Cool!

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    An in-game browser is something I've wanted and may have even asked for before. So hearing that it's in the works is good news.

    Although in reading that interview I get the feeling the interviewer didn't look into things in advance enough to realize that Means was not the original game director at launch. Then presuming it was an interview as it makes it sound like rather than a mailed set of questions when he found that out a few questions in didn't adjust his questions or intro accordingly. With many of the questions centering around way back then things it sort of threw the whole thing off.

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    great news!
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    Quote Originally Posted by PhoenixOfAges View Post
    An in-game browser is something I've wanted and may have even asked for before. So hearing that it's in the works is good news.

    Although in reading that interview I get the feeling the interviewer didn't look into things in advance enough to realize that Means was not the original game director at launch. Then presuming it was an interview as it makes it sound like rather than a mailed set of questions when he found that out a few questions in didn't adjust his questions or intro accordingly. With many of the questions centering around way back then things it sort of threw the whole thing off.
    Yeah, it did feel quite awkward when the interviewer didn't catch on and kept going with his line of "tales of the past" questions.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Vhab View Post
    Yeah, it did feel quite awkward when the interviewer didn't catch on and kept going with his line of "tales of the past" questions.
    That was probably one email of questions sent in one go as it often happens with magazines. Plus I believe that, as disastrous launch was, what happened in 2001 isn't really the first concern for today. I still appreciate all that was done this month (there is a message from Gaute in the memory page!).
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    beta meens testserver no? tho i doubht it wil be out this year..

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    Well depending on implementation you might be able to use the beta client to connect to to live. Probably not a good idea tho.


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    It should be client side only but we are talking about AO so..
    blah

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    Quote Originally Posted by PhoenixOfAges View Post
    Although in reading that interview I get the feeling the interviewer didn't look into things in advance enough to realize that Means was not the original game director at launch. Then presuming it was an interview as it makes it sound like rather than a mailed set of questions when he found that out a few questions in didn't adjust his questions or intro accordingly. With many of the questions centering around way back then things it sort of threw the whole thing off.
    For any good interview involving AO, the first thing that must be covered is the crappy launch, it appears to be journalism 101.

    At least 25% of the interview was a total waste. I could ask far better questions.

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    Thread number 2 is the German translation

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    Quote Originally Posted by arctictiger View Post
    Thread number 2 is the German translation

    Actually, it is not a translation of either of the other two threads that I linked to in my previous post. It is its own separate thread about the article, it just happens to be in German. Not to mention that some in that thread pointed out that there were many other threads referring to the article too.

    In case anyone was unaware from looking at them, thread one and thread three that are linked in my previous post are both in English.
    Maybe™ is the new Soon™.
    Quote Originally Posted by Means View Post
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    Our goal is to have a closed Beta running this year.™

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    IMHO, the Archeologist needs to get a shovel and dig some facts about AO, like previous interviews with Colin, to actually ask something NEW.

    "Hey, how was the launch? oh you weren't there, ok.. so how was the game when it started? oh was that the same period of time I asked about before? oh... how about a bit after that? no? ok, you been in AO for 7 years, what were you doing in AO... 9 years ago"...

    Even in an email interview (which I have done), you NEED to make sense of the interview, specially if you going to claim you "sat down" with AO's Game Director and then appears to have asked him lousy questions one after another.

    Does this guy ever heard of a follow-up? ok that question didn't work, based on this answer over here, let me ask a different question in a SECOND (wow) email and see if I can make things flow better.

    For the first impression, didn't like the interview, the reporter could have done a much better job, since he claims from previous articles to be a veteran player of AO from years past.
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    we are working on incorporating an in-game browser into Anarchy Online and are looking forward to the interactive events we can get started once we have access to that kind of flexible technology.
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    yeah

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