Massively screencast/interview

Sarapis

http://www.twitch.tv/massivelytv/b/406940692

Enjoy! Thanks to those of you who came and chatted away in the chat room during the interview!

Trilliana

"You have received message #1 from Siyad."

that made me lol, but still awesome! 

Sarapis

Haha, yeah, I chuckled about that too. I wonder what Siyad had to say to him.

Linian

Want that new client so badly.

Sarapis

I'm on it right now. It's awesome! It's actually all I've been using for at least a month. You'll be able to use it soon.

Daslin

It looks neat. The new quest thing and all.

Keres

Good interview, @Sarapis!! You're an excellent representative of MUDs, bringing this awesome game to the public eye. Keep up the good work.

Kaitali

I didn't know about this until a minute or two before it ended, but yay, the Serpentlords are famous!

Cahin

How many viewers did his channel pull in during the interview?

Watched and enjoyed it.

Cooper

I hear I have a bone to pick with you :P

Edit: also, the money was for a 200 credit package

Sarapis

Cahin said:

How many viewers did his channel pull in during the interview?

Watched and enjoyed it.

No idea!

Cooper

@Sarapis

I just called my mom and had her listen to the part where you talked about the credits. It almost made her cry - she still remembers that too. Thanks for the memory that I could share

Tecton

Cahin said:

How many viewers did his channel pull in during the interview?

Watched and enjoyed it.

Fluctuated between 130 and 150 - I'm sure many more will see the video when the story gets posted on the website next week!

Kaitali

Conflicting messages! Told I should leave him alone and let him do his thing by one Divine, then told I should train and orient him like any other novice. I keep trying to talk to him but he wants nothing to do with it.

Sheetaa

I have to say the interview was fantastic!

Shirszae

Is there any written transcription of the interview? 

Babel

Kaitali said:

Conflicting messages! Told I should leave him alone and let him do his thing by one Divine, then told I should train and orient him like any other novice. I keep trying to talk to him but he wants nothing to do with it.

Then perhaps you should give him space. This is my advice for dealing with any newbie who doesn't seem very receptive to your well-intentioned advances. Often, these newbies are experienced players of Achaea, or of MUDS in general, who know darn well how to <move/learn skills/talk to players/etc> and don't have any particular desire to sit around for an hour while you orient them. You and I know, of course, the value that Houses and other players have, but you're never going to convince anyone of that by making them sit and listen while you talk at them. You're much better off making sure they know you're there if they need you, then backing off and letting them do their thing. Many times, the newbie will get comfortable in the largely single-player bashing game before branching out and becoming involved with others, and that's just fine.

Keres

@Shirszae

Beau Hindman does a column on Massively.com called Free For All every Wednesday.

I guess I misunderstood what he said - that the written transcription will be released Wednesday -- 

thinking that he meant today. The transcription will (likely) be posted to his column next Wednesday (the 29th), at the following link:

http://massively.joystiq.com/category/free-for-all

Enjoy!

Sarapis

The full transcript is unlikely to be in the article he'll write to accompany the interview, but he'll probably pull out a bunch of quotes he thinks are interesting.

Keres

I believe he said (in the interview, funny enough) that he would link the full transcript from the article but don't persecute me for my beliefs if they turn out to be wrong. I can't be bothered to actually listen through the whole interview again to find out exactly what he said about it.

Shirszae

@Keres I hope so. I just can't stand video interviews.

Keres

If one is not by evening-time on the 29th I'll do it. Sorry for the wait I don't have the time to spend on it if someone else might between now and then

Shirszae

Keres said:

If one is not produced the evening of the 29th, I will do it. Sorry for the wait I don't have the time to spend on it if someone else might between now and then

Hahaha, its alright. You don't have to do it anyway, but thank you 

Beaugh

Thanks to everyone who came out. Feel free to spread the video in every place that is humanly possible.

1) No transcripts. I do not have near the time it would require to write one. The video goes into an article series that is used to talk about almost anything I want, but is usually reserved for odd, indie or less popular games or genres. I also upload my vids to YouTube if you want to attempt to use its auto-captioning tool. It sucks usually, but might work. I wish I could do transcripts of every one for the deaf community. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtuNM5PiVCk

2) The article will be out on the 29th, but I will also be doing a write-up in another column (or maybe the same one at a later date, not sure) in order to give a first impressions of the gameplay. It would be like what many of you would call a "review" but we do not review things on Massively. MMOs are endless, so that's impossible to do. We do impressions or previews. I was looking to livestream a dungeon or event in a MUD (yes, it sounds odd but would be a blast for people to see how the mechanics work) but looked at GemStone IV for that. In that game, events have to be timed so if anyone knows of a nice group activity that we can stream in this game, I'd stream that any time.

3) I am sorry if I didn't see tells or whispers or whatever they are called in this game. I also logged in later to be told that I had to leave a town because I was evil, so I wandered around until I attacked something and figured out it was someone's pet! Then I was told I had to leave a certain channel on, but it was spamming up my screen so I shut it off. lol Don't take it personally if a new player (or experienced player who is just new to your world) has no idea what the heck you are talking about. At this point I am lost but will find my way. My advice? There are too many channels and things popping up right away in a newbies face, and roleplay seems barely there... thought it was more common.

Anyway, I look forward to playing some more! And thanks again to Matt for the interview! We both talk so fast we sound like chipmunks on coffee! haha

Beau

Amitation

Cooper said:

@Sarapis

I just called my mom and had her listen to the part where you talked about the credits. It almost made her cry - she still remembers that too. Thanks for the memory that I could share

Cooper said:

I hear I have a bone to pick with you :P

Edit: also, the money was for a 200 credit package

This made me laugh a bit -- I remember having to buy credits through the US Postal system. And that 200 credit packages were almost the biggest packages available. And the check had to be written out to either Matt personally or later on to Achaea, LLC when he made it a business! 

And I remember when Matt finally got credit card payments on the website and I clicked "Submit" about 25 times and caused everyone a huge headache.

EDIT: Awesome interview, too!

Cinya

Thanks for playing @Beaugh! I didn't know this was happening until afterwards, but I'll definitely check it out tonight. 

Jonathin

@Beaugh, sometimes as experienced Achaeans, we forget what it's like to be a newbie. People being so vocal about what is spammy, inconsistent, or anything else that is negative helps us to put the newbie-experience into perspective as players. Some of us have been playing this game for so long that we can pay attention to 10+ channels at once (I still can't keep them straight and miss-channel all the time).

Berenene

Amitation said:

Cooper said:

@Sarapis

I just called my mom and had her listen to the part where you talked about the credits. It almost made her cry - she still remembers that too. Thanks for the memory that I could share

Cooper said:

I hear I have a bone to pick with you :P

Edit: also, the money was for a 200 credit package

This made me laugh a bit -- I remember having to buy credits through the US Postal system. And that 200 credit packages were almost the biggest packages available. And the check had to be written out to either Matt personally or later on to Achaea, LLC when he made it a business! 

And I remember when Matt finally got credit card payments on the website and I clicked "Submit" about 25 times and caused everyone a huge headache.

EDIT: Awesome interview, too!

Lol, I used to have to do Western Union money orders from Australia, mainly because I was young, didn't have a credit card and the thought of trying to explain to my parents why I wanted to borrow theirs for kind of horrifying.  It was fun waiting the 3-4 days airmail and then the 5ish days for it to clear before I got my credits.  I think I even still have my first receipt of my first credit purchase somewhere.  Then I got a visa Debit and credit purchases became instant; it was like an angelic chorus was singing in the background the first time I made a credit purchase with it.

Tahquil

I remember money orders as well!