8/28's Coffee Talk

I like the coffee talks, even when they're a little light on "breaking news". Zwill is personable and funny, and it's nice to be able to put a face to some of the rednames, and hear them talk a little bit about work process and design philosophy.

If you're only watching them for the big reveals, then yeah, I can see where all the tangents and vamping and goofing around would be annoying. I guess your best bet would be to just skip them...the important info usually hits the forums and official website pretty soon after anyway.

I don't watch the Coffee Talks. I find the video format to be tedious, and I prefer the Lumpy Space Zwillinger voice my head generates for LSZ's textual words to the real thing.

That said, I enjoy the information that trickles onto the forums from the Coffee Talks - moreso when it's new and exciting, but sometimes the pointless silliness serves to amuse as well.

I miss the breakdowns that that one guy used to do (was it Von Krieger or something?) with the various screenshots.

Yes, Von Krieger. I've since been taking it up but don't go for strict transcripts so much as summaries and usually skip ones like this that don't offer much of interest. But if there's some nifty tidbit it usually finds it's way on here some way or another

I haven't seen the video posted yet, so I haven't been able to track back to take another look at the super-secret screen that Zwill flashed up. Anyone get a look?

I don't want to be the curmudgeony ******* of the community (yet again...), but I honestly just don't log in to watch the development team "shoot" about tangents and off-topic banter. It's the same reason I'm really not interested in Fantasy Football and such. I want to get to know these people, sure, but through topics relevant to the game more than anything else.

There needs to be a sort of balance here, I feel. Sure, not having these coffee talks and getting information only through Marketing-approved press releases is bad, but just catching water cooler conversations just seems... Not very interesting. It'd be cool if it were one-on-one, like catching a developer at a con in-between gigs, but as a broadcast to the community? They don't need to happen that often if there isn't that much to talk about.

Maybe "something to do with the game" isn't the right way to put it. Let's go with "I'd like to see Coffee talks only when those having the talk actually have something to say." Treat them like vlogs. Maybe you want to announce a new feature, or maybe you just have something off-topic to address. Like, say, the whole studio went to watch The Room together and want to give us their impressions, maybe Matt Miller lost an arm-wrestling contest against Melissa Bianco and we just have to hear about that. Sure, it's not game-related, but it's still a broadcast with a point and I'd watch that.

But if you're trying to figure out what to say, you just don't need to do a Coffee Talk. Save it for when you're inspired to talk about something.

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

There is a balance Sam, some coffee talks are about new goodies or upcoming things, sometimes they're just about for fun stuff like costumes or new mice.

It's pretty much like the Market. Something is going to be coming every week but not necessarily something new nor something that'll interest everybody. If it's not interesting you then you're probably not the one it's being targeted at.

The only thing I care about regarding coffee talks is that there's no transcripts.

But as for the idea of the thing, I think it's great that they have weekly chats for players to watch, though. Some may interest me, some may not, but I am disinclined to expect that every one of them will be what I want to hear.

What I primarily care about is information. Social chit-chat just bores the heck out of me. I can't sit through an hour of that or mostly that. But other people like that sort of thing, and more power to them, as long as they don't try to drag me along.

Hah, in what is quite possibly the last Coffee talk ever, nothing new is discussed. That's kinda fitting/sad...