David Simmonds Interview Discussion

[Nighthawk]

Great info, and some of it is news to me at least... even though some people complain about "too many cant-answer"

I do understand MA cant just tell all the time they dont want to say they will work with a company and then build up a hype, when its not done yet with negotiations

[Dion Red Strike]

Originally Posted by Nighthawk

Great info, and some of it is news to me at least... even though some people complain about "too many cant-answer"

I do understand MA cant just tell all the time they dont want to say they will work with a company and then build up a hype, when its not done yet with negotiations

Well exactly.. I completely understand...

I often work with advertisers of my business, I don't bother telling the managers about who I'm talking to, because there's no need to get them all excited if nothing ends up happening...

For example, I was working with a baseball team, the ads woulda been perfect, unfortunately, we couldn't come to an agreement on price, so it didn't happen. If I had told the managers, they woulda been bugging me, and asking me to do whatever it takes to get it done. And, even though I did do whatever it took, they just couldn't come to me with what I needed..

I'm sure the same is happening all the time at MA...


I particularly liked the part about ads....

[Johned]

Thanks for putting this together, I have enjoyed your reporting from the conference and this far surpasses that.

+rep

[Badger]

i felt by the way he answered the Advert question that he made a slip up and gave more info away than he was comfortable with and then whey you asked him for clarification he backed away, but the comment about actually looking at adverts helps your loot is deff interesting

great interview btw

[Dion Red Strike]

Originally Posted by Badger

i felt by the way he answered the Advert question that he made a slip up and gave more info away than he was comfortable with and then whey you asked him for clarification he backed away, but the comment about actually looking at adverts helps your loot is deff interesting

great interview btw

Well, I think he can't answer specifically about the loot pool, but he can answer about how the advertising company determines how much to give them.

It only makes sense. As an advertiser, I want to know how many people are going to see my ad, but after it's done, I want to know how many people actually saw it. It seems perfectly logical that massive would want MA to track how many ads are being watched. It seems it's a pretty simple thing to add to the universe.

A question that has come up in my mind since the interview (mind you, I've listened to it dozens of times now), is this;

Will the new planet partners be under the same contract as MA with Massive, or will they be responsible for making their own deal? And, either way, does the ad revenue generateed from a partners planets go to MA, or to the planet partner?

[Badger]

Will the new planet partners be under the same contract as MA with Massive, or will they be responsible for making their own deal? And, either way, does the ad revenue generateed from a partners planets go to MA, or to the planet partner?

That's a very interesting case, I imagine we would not get an answer though because it would be done by a case by case basis. And the content of the planet may have an impact on the way/if/type adverts are presented. Also, would a planet that has a bigger player base (i.e one of those "world names" he was mentioning) have to pay a bigger fee to mindark than a planet with smaller player base.

Ok Badger, stop rabbiting on about things that don't concern you

[AkiranBlade]

That was a great interview thanks Dion!


BTW, my name is pronounced "Ah-Kee-Ran-Blade"

The Banks question was an enlightener although specifics of course were not forthcoming. I guess the next question on that note is timescales for new features to come online.

Was a little dissapointed about the delivery date for CryEngine2 implementation not being answered at all, was hoping for some kind of estimate there.

Again, great interview

[SB2]

Dion -

Thanks for asking my question... (although the answer had nothing to do with the thrust of the question) I do appreciate the asking.....

[Unity]

Originally Posted by Badger

i felt by the way he answered the Advert question that he made a slip up and gave more info away than he was comfortable with and then whey you asked him for clarification he backed away, but the comment about actually looking at adverts helps your loot is deff interesting

great interview btw

And that would suck for the people on areas that get few or none at all other adverts than the same old outdated EU clips.

edit: Oh, they might as well roll the clip with working Cash Card just to piss people off more.

[Timbo Witters]

Great intervieuw wtg entropiaradio

edit: Just resived a phonecall got to mutch work this weekend to do the transcirpt