INTERVIEW
GameOn: You mentioned that
all the time. We have an internal
off payment such as Guild Wars?
Stephan: There were a few
you sit and watch people stream.
e-mail address for fixing live issues
Has there been anything, besides
or things like that and it basically
reasons. One of them was that I
bugs, that a player has done whilst
goes out to a group of people who
always make the comparison that
you’ve been watching, that you have
review those e-mails and assess the
HBO costs extra per month, it’s a
then only realised is possible in
importance so we watch those on a
subscription and people pay for it
the game? For instance a certain
regular basis and try to improve it.
regularly without batting an eyelid.
sequence of moves that work well
When we do add in fixes or things
And the reason that they do that is
together or something similar?
like that we always have to take
because the content is good and
Stephan: We were doing that
into consideration how important
so, if you have things like Game of
in Beta, so not even before launch
is it because there is a chance that
Thrones and True Detective on your
we were watching people play
we could break something if we
channel people are like “Damn - this
live streams. There was a cheat,
try to hotfix it in and then break
is awesome - I’ll pay extra every
something like a double dodge super
something else for somebody else
month for this stuff”. You have things
leap that could get you super far
and then we have people flipping
like Netflix, and these Amazon
if you timed them correctly and so
desks and it’s terrible. It’s all about
services that are coming out as well.
there would be people that would
triaging and understanding what
It’s not unusual to have subscription
put up YouTube videos or stuff like
is important and what isn’t.
services. Subscriptions are how we
are paying for everything, Spotify,
“How to double dodge super jump
GameOn: As of late quite a lot of
to your heart’s content”… so we said
loads of stuff. It’s not unusual. The
ok we are going to fix that. So we
MMOs have been going slightly more
thing is it also allows us to give
look into things like that. There was
towards the Free-to-Play mode