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[Captain_Frisk]

Works for me.  Someone may want to transcript it quickly before it is taken down - as her statement at 5:25 I'm pretty sure was false.

[ftl]

what was there at 5:25?

[Ozle]

"None of the security issues were on live, only the beta"

[thirtyseven]

Tried to watch the video - it says it's private?

You have to click the button on the bottom that says YouTube in order to watch it on YouTube.com; you can't just watch it in the forum post.

[blueblimp]

Did we learn anything except "These are things we may or may not due at some flexible time point in the future." ?

What did you expect? A answer like "All your wishes and wanted features will be granted not later than V2.1 of Dominion Online which will be released on the 23rd of May 2013"?
Just joking, but I kinda expected that. Thus I asked the question if the can release/publish some sort of timeline? But it seems they won't do that.

Um so I haven't even seen the interview yet, but here's roughly the sort of answer content I'd hope for (although don't really expect):

1) Obviously they should have thought about security already, or that is a big red flag, right? So tell us what they think. Is it a concern to them? Would they hold up a launch in order to fix security issues?

2) Well, who is their market? Pretty simple, and they must have some idea. People who play Dominion online already? People who have only played Dominion in real life? People who don't play board games but play lighter-weight web games and are looking to move to something more interesting?

3) Surely they have discussed internally whether they intend to support offline play or not. This question isn't just important for Dominion, but also for their developer SDK. So, how important do they think offline play is? If they think it is important, why did they choose to leave it out for the launch?

4) Simple enough: what will it cost, and what's up with Gokoins? I can't see how Gokoins are intended as anything other than customer disrespect, but if there's some justification, now is the time to give it.

5) For this, instead of plans, the content that would be interesting is: what's their communication strategy? For a long time, the strategy was to keep everything hush-hush, and as a result you have people generally mistrusting Goko and dreading the launch, rather than the normal situation for games where people are hyped about the launch. If that isn't important to them, why not?

6) This is maybe secret so I wouldn't expect much.

[Ozle]

Tried to watch the video - it says it's private?

You have to click the button on the bottom that says YouTube in order to watch it on YouTube.com; you can't just watch it in the forum post.

Erm....I can watch it in the forum post

[Cave-o-sapien]

Tried to watch the video - it says it's private?

You have to click the button on the bottom that says YouTube in order to watch it on YouTube.com; you can't just watch it in the forum post.

I was able to watch it inline.

[trisha_brooke]

Sorry about the video on private. I was messing with privacy. Should be accessible now.

[Voltaire]

@pinky you registered to ask questions without well structured grammar at the last minute and then when you were granted an answer... this? 

To be fair to pinky, he's a beta tester and very active on those forums.

As far as the Q&A, it doesn't sound like there was anything interested/noteworthy? Other than a lie (hopefully not intentional) about the flaws not being in the launch version.

[AJD]

The following is the best thing ever:

At the beginning of that video, Trisha tells Theory or whoever she's talking to that she'll begin the Q&A at 3:10—meaning, presumably, ten minutes past three o'clock.

Then she sits around for a few minutes, waiting for the appointed time to roll around.

Then she starts the Q&A at exactly 3:10—i.e., three minutes and ten seconds into the video.

So the "I'll start at 3:10" is just as useful for people watching it as a recording after the fact and wanting to know when it starts as it was for people watching in real time earlier today wanting to know when the Q&A would start. Now that's dedication.

[pinkymadigan]

Well I have to say I like her as a person but Goko as an overall company currently seems a little off to me. I liked the answer that everyone played Dominion but I wonder whether or not her answer that basically was 'we just want you to have fun with our games!' will carry through to the actual product.

@pinky you registered to ask questions without well structured grammar at the last minute and then when you were granted an answer... this? 

I'm plenty active in the BGG and goko beta testing forums. Excuse my grammar, please, I do not think it is the norm for my posts to have substandard grammar.

But yes, this.

Goko has been infuriating me the past month or so. I'm venting everywhere I can. Dominion is a great game, but the Goko implementation is far from great. I want it to be excellent and I'm not seeing it.

[^_^_^_^]

Well I have to say I like her as a person but Goko as an overall company currently seems a little off to me. I liked the answer that everyone played Dominion but I wonder whether or not her answer that basically was 'we just want you to have fun with our games!' will carry through to the actual product.

@pinky you registered to ask questions without well structured grammar at the last minute and then when you were granted an answer... this? 

I'm plenty active in the BGG and goko beta testing forums. Excuse my grammar, please, I do not think it is the norm for my posts to have substandard grammar.

But yes, this.

Goko has been infuriating me the past month or so. I'm venting everywhere I can. Dominion is a great game, but the Goko implementation is far from great. I want it to be excellent and I'm not seeing it.

Why vent everywhere you can? People are venting enough and if Goko is smart, they will take the constructive criticism and ignore the vents for the most part, just like any other company/star/etc.

[pinkymadigan]

Well I have to say I like her as a person but Goko as an overall company currently seems a little off to me. I liked the answer that everyone played Dominion but I wonder whether or not her answer that basically was 'we just want you to have fun with our games!' will carry through to the actual product.

@pinky you registered to ask questions without well structured grammar at the last minute and then when you were granted an answer... this? 

I'm plenty active in the BGG and goko beta testing forums. Excuse my grammar, please, I do not think it is the norm for my posts to have substandard grammar.

But yes, this.

Goko has been infuriating me the past month or so. I'm venting everywhere I can. Dominion is a great game, but the Goko implementation is far from great. I want it to be excellent and I'm not seeing it.

Why vent everywhere you can? People are venting enough and if Goko is smart, they will take the constructive criticism and ignore the vents for the most part, just like any other company/star/etc.

Mark my words, this company's goal is to be bought. It doesn't matter what they do with the criticism. They can stick it in their ears and play board games all day every day for all I care. What is important is that they gobbled up licenses with very little intention of delivering a good product, solely so that someone else can come in and buy the company for the licenses.

Also, it's important that people know what's going on. They need to be very wary of this company. I was one of, if not the first to break NDA with the security flaws. For some reason they haven't kicked me out of the beta yet. I think it's because it's completely unimportant how much bad press they get as they are just sitting around waiting for someone to buy them.

It's been pointed out that their top management has a list of companies they've started and sold over the past 10 years at a little under a company a year. History repeating and all that junk...

[blueblimp]

Well I have to say I like her as a person but Goko as an overall company currently seems a little off to me. I liked the answer that everyone played Dominion but I wonder whether or not her answer that basically was 'we just want you to have fun with our games!' will carry through to the actual product.

@pinky you registered to ask questions without well structured grammar at the last minute and then when you were granted an answer... this? 

I'm plenty active in the BGG and goko beta testing forums. Excuse my grammar, please, I do not think it is the norm for my posts to have substandard grammar.

But yes, this.

Goko has been infuriating me the past month or so. I'm venting everywhere I can. Dominion is a great game, but the Goko implementation is far from great. I want it to be excellent and I'm not seeing it.

Why vent everywhere you can? People are venting enough and if Goko is smart, they will take the constructive criticism and ignore the vents for the most part, just like any other company/star/etc.

Mark my words, this company's goal is to be bought. It doesn't matter what they do with the criticism. They can stick it in their ears and play board games all day every day for all I care. What is important is that they gobbled up licenses with very little intention of delivering a good product, solely so that someone else can come in and buy the company for the licenses.

Also, it's important that people know what's going on. They need to be very wary of this company. I was one of, if not the first to break NDA with the security flaws. For some reason they haven't kicked me out of the beta yet. I think it's because it's completely unimportant how much bad press they get as they are just sitting around waiting for someone to buy them.

It's been pointed out that their top management has a list of companies they've started and sold over the past 10 years at a little under a company a year. History repeating and all that junk...

1. You are making an awful lot of assumptions here. "Very little intention of delivering a good product"? There's every sign that they wanted to make a good product, but of course intentions are not enough. The following saying applies here: "never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence".

2. There was and is no NDA. An NDA is a legal agreement that you sign. As far as the beta goes, there was just a request to refrain from discussing it on public forums. Nobody signed anything (as far as I know).

[Beyond Awesome]

I think the biggest problem Goko had from launch was that they are being over-ambitious. They have acquired too many licenses and already have a few big names to them like Catan and Dominion which means their resources are spread thin. I bet the people who work there are overworked. Goko is a new company and sometimes new companies get a little over their heads.

[Kirian]

The following saying applies here: "never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence".

Indeed.  Lots of incompetence here.  If there's any malice, it can likely be ascribed to the VCs involved.  And let's face it, they're pretty much known for malice (VCs in general that is).

[pinkymadigan]

1. You are making an awful lot of assumptions here. "Very little intention of delivering a good product"? There's every sign that they wanted to make a good product, but of course intentions are not enough. The following saying applies here: "never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence".

2. There was and is no NDA. An NDA is a legal agreement that you sign. As far as the beta goes, there was just a request to refrain from discussing it on public forums. Nobody signed anything (as far as I know).

No, I use NDA loosely, as it's much simpler than saying that Goko reserved the right to eliminate our access to the beta for speaking publicly on any flaws/bugs/features/lack thereof/etc. (not quoted, but similar to email we all received).

I am making assumptions. I am assuming that the incompetence is because the competence of the development staff did not matter to upper management. I think we've all been shown enough examples of that incompetence to know it's true. You all have dodged saying it, attributed my posts to me being rude, but deep down you are all agreeing. I simply am holding them to the same standard that the card game lives up to. A game as excellent as Dominion deserves an electronic implementation at least as good as the mediocre game that is Ascension.

You all want a better product than the one being delivered. A lot better.

[1wheel]

"None of the security issues were on live, only the beta"

Which just doesn't seem plausible. Why would they not load test server side validation of client data? Why would their beta account system store passwords in plain text while their live system didn't?

I'm thankful that Trisha and theory set up this Q&A, but it really hasn't alleviated any my concerns.

[Captain_Frisk]

"None of the security issues were on live, only the beta"

Which just doesn't seem plausible. Why would they not load test server side validation of client data? Why would their beta account system store passwords in plain text while their live system didn't?

I'm thankful that Trisha and theory set up this Q&A, but it really hasn't alleviated any my concerns.

Seconded.  I'm pretty sure that I executed a javascript popup on launch day on the production server (Galzria might have been in the lobby) - and the plaintext password thing was discovered by the folks in the bgg thread.

I suspect that Trisha was given talking points, possibly from someone in marketing / sales who in the best case didn't know / was willing to say whatever... and in the worst case explicitly lied.  I mean - Ted even posted a note on the official forums that said "yep thanks for pointing it out - it will be fixed this afternoon.  Since they "launched" in the morning - obviously someone knew it was launching with the holes in place.

[Beyond Awesome]

"None of the security issues were on live, only the beta"

Which just doesn't seem plausible. Why would they not load test server side validation of client data? Why would their beta account system store passwords in plain text while their live system didn't?

I'm thankful that Trisha and theory set up this Q&A, but it really hasn't alleviated any my concerns.

Seconded.  I'm pretty sure that I executed a javascript popup on launch day on the production server (Galzria might have been in the lobby) - and the plaintext password thing was discovered by the folks in the bgg thread.

I suspect that Trisha was given talking points, possibly from someone in marketing / sales who in the best case didn't know / was willing to say whatever... and in the worst case explicitly lied.  I mean - Ted even posted a note on the official forums that said "yep thanks for pointing it out - it will be fixed this afternoon.  Since they "launched" in the morning - obviously someone knew it was launching with the holes in place.

It's even worse that these security issues were discovered and pointed out before the launch.

[Kirian]

[Gibberish]

As always, YT voice recognition comes through with something even multi-babelfishing couldn't have done.

[Cave-o-sapien]

14:05 so demeaning has definitely been the primary purpose of work

That doesn't sound like a healthy work environment.

[Kirian]

14:05 so demeaning has definitely been the primary purpose of work

That doesn't sound like a healthy work environment.

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

[^_^_^_^]

14:01 love dominion and that's one reason she really you know wanted to bring it
14:05 so demeaning has definitely been the primary purpose of work

[greatexpectations]

the auto-transcript was put up, so i copy/pasted it and edited it as i listened through the video. google's caption service really nailed whole sections of it, and fantastically garbled some others.  still impressive that it can do it though, i say.

i cut out a lot of the filler before and after the meat of the questions. and i did the best i could in editing the text. im sure there are a few mistakes or missing words throughout, so don't take this as 100% gospel.

i have tried to match up the answers to the questions presented here over in this post.

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Goko Q&A
3:15 i am trisha
3:17 uh... from goko
3:21 and just to let you know that uh... Ed from
3:27 uh... also known as theory from
3:30 dominion strategy is going to be my moderator today so he is going to be the one is going to be
3:33 bringing in the questions and all that fun stuff
3:36 so
3:38 if you don't get your question answered
3:42 uh... any questions that i don't answer online today i will try to get to you
3:47 as soon as i can
3:49 um...
3:52 at the boards
3:55 so
3:58 first i'd like to introduce a couple of people uh... i don't know if you guys can see
4:02 them uh... but
4:05 ted who's kind of
4:07 uh...
4:08 blacked out right now as well as a couple of the other people here
4:14 and then i'm gonna go ahead and delve right into your questions
4:20 so these are questions that were brought together by greatexpectations
4:23 and i really appreciate him doing that for us that was really awesome, thank you
4:28 uh... so the first question
4:30 that seems most popular right now is "will you be implementing the ability to
4:35 rejoin a game in the event of a disconnect"
4:38 so the answer is yes
4:41 which is great
4:42 uh... though that is going to have to be implemented after the site is up
4:47 and the games are stable so you might not see it right away but
4:51 we're definitely on the path
4:53 and you should see that very soon
4:57 and the next question is
4:59 there've been reports of some security holes in your app
5:02 even if they're fixed, how can i be confident that other flaws are not
5:06 compromising my user information
5:09 so
5:13 the security issues that we had
5:15 uh... were in our beta program and
5:18 we're really sorry about that but they have been addressed
5:21 in our production systems
5:24 none of the the issues that we have in the beta were actually in our production so
5:29 i just wanna make that clear that
5:31 things were safe
5:32 uh... we have fixed the javascript and password in plain text issues
5:37 and were definitely reviewing the security practices
5:41 uh... to make sure that they are over and above the industry standards so
5:46 we are
5:46 addressing that and um... things are safe
5:51 so, the next question, do you plan to implement a point counter yourselves
5:56 what is your your policy regarding third-party extensions including but not
6:00 limited to point counters
6:02 are custom AI's on the horizon?
6:04 if so, how will they work
6:07 so
6:08 well i will try to answer all those questions
6:11 so
6:13 one of things that we do here at gokoe
6:15 is that we're very excited about our platform as well as
6:20 the games
6:22 so
6:24 we're really happy to be able to produce the tools that are going to allow people
6:29 to make
6:30 uh... extensions such as the point counter
6:34 so we'd ourselves are not actually going to do this but we arer very happy to
6:38 work with people who do
6:40 uh... so
6:42 people will be able to make
6:44 their own custom AI's
6:45 uh... as well as things like the point counter
6:49 we don't have this of course right
6:51 now but it should be very soon
6:56 alright, so next question
6:58 alright here's a long answer to the question "so how are ratings calculated"
7:03 so i'm actually just going to read the answers given from um...
7:07 jack who does our
7:09 uh... ratings system
7:11 so i'm going to join us there
7:13 if you have specific questions regarding anything in the point counter
7:19 go ahead and let me know on the boards and i will
7:23 forward those to jack and see if we can
7:26 get those questions answered as soon as possible
7:29 so how the ratings are calculated
7:32 so each player gets a rating between zero and ten thousand
7:36 all registered players are rated
7:38 the same way including the bots
7:42 the system for calculating ratings is
7:45 pretty complicated and dependent on quite a few factors so im going to kind of go
7:49 through some of those factors
7:52 first the ratings are just based on what place you came in rather than how many
7:55 victory points
7:57 you won by
7:58 and if the game is resigned its viewed as a loss
8:05 so if you came in second or third
8:07 it doesn't matter if you came in at a hundred points
8:10 or two points its all rated the same
8:13 ratings are also adjusted based on the ratings of your opponents
8:17 beating a higher rated opponent
8:19 will help
8:20 ratings much more than beating a lower rated opponent
8:25 the system is
8:26 conservative in it's calculations
8:30 so it is reasonably sure you deserve the rating work before it awards it
8:33 so
8:35 in other words your rating may be low when you haven't played many games
8:41 and uh rise as the system gains more confidence that you deserve the higher rating
8:47 your rating will fluctuate
8:48 more when the system has little data about how skillful you are so you know
8:52 the first couple games you play your ratings are going to be all over the place
8:58 uh...
8:59 as you play more games your rating is only going to slowly
9:04 move up and down
9:11 unexpected results such as a win over a higher rated opponent
9:14 affects the rating most
9:18 so play someone that's much better than you and you win
9:20 your rating might go pretty high
9:23 so that your rating will fluctuate more with results against players with more established ratings so pretty much the more you play, the more established your rating is going to get, and playing against the other players with established ratings is going to be the best way to improve your score
9:43 alright, so again if you have specific questions
9:45 let me know on the boards
9:46 and i will forward those to jeff
9:49 ok
9:50 next question
9:52 would it be possible to get a relative timetable of when the expansions will be
9:56 released on goko
9:59 so
10:00 right now all our focus is uh... on fixing the back end
10:05 and um... the issues in getting the games up and working
10:09 so once were done with that we're going to put
10:13 all our efforts back on things like
10:15 the expansions
10:17 so right now i can't give you a
10:20 really good
10:22 uh... timetable
10:24 uh... but as soon as we kind of
10:27 fix everything and we're back on track
10:29 uh... i'll start letting people know as we get close when those are going to
10:33 be available
10:36 alright, next question
10:38 do you want to see the testers to continue beta testing
10:42 if so what version should we be using
10:45 what where should we posts
10:47 feedback thoughts
10:50 i definitely
10:52 we want people to continue beta testing
10:55 uh...
10:56 we will be sending out invites to our
10:59 current beta testers
11:02 to move you
11:03 onto our
11:05 new system
11:06 that we're going to be using
11:08 which is going to expand a lot of things we aregoing to be testing
11:13 and a lot of new features
11:16 so uh
11:18 you'll find out more in an email that i should be sending within the next couple
11:22 of days
11:23 about the
11:24 information im going to need to transfer you over ok
11:30 and uh... and as far as what
11:33 where to post feedback and -?- continue both emails on the forums
11:37 and uh... not on get satisfaction -?-
11:40 we're gonna be using that
11:41 for the live site once we go live uh... but not for the
11:44 beta testing right now
11:47 so next question expression
11:49 how many work at funsockets? or as we're known....goko
11:52 -garbled-
12:00 so we have about
12:02 thirty people here
12:05 that actually work in the office
12:08 so we're creating
12:09 several different things uh...
12:11 not only are we creating games like dominion
12:13 but we also have a gaming platform
12:16 and also a kind of
12:17 developer ecosystem that we're trying to work on arm so its a lot
12:21 for thirty people on then of course not all of us are our programmers
12:26 so we are also bringing in a lot of outside help
12:30 and as a lot of you who have seen the site know we
12:33 will be putting out race for the galaxy soon
12:35 and we brought actually keldon in to help us with that alright
12:41 so the next question
12:42 any plans for allowing players to tweak how the cards are laid out on the screen
12:48 so right now
12:49 we don't have any plans to allow people to tweak
12:53 however
12:54 like most features uh... if you ask for it and enough people ask for it
12:59 we will definitely look at it for future things down the road
13:09 so next question
13:12 i'm also interested in the familiarity the developers had with dominion before
13:16 starting their work
13:18 given that goko is simulataneously developing at least four games games
13:22 how much attention is it really getting?
13:24 are the best guys on it?
13:25 well updates be frequent?
13:28 so
13:29 to give you an overall of like
13:31 the people that work here as you can see we
13:34 have quite a few collection of games
13:36 uh...
13:37 pretty much everyone here
13:39 plays board games in one way or another
13:42 uh... you know we not
13:43 all like the same games but we definitely are
13:48 a company
13:48 that focuses
13:50 on gaming as a hobby
13:53 so many of us
13:54 owned and played dominion long before we came here
13:57 uh...
13:58 our ceo ted
14:01 loved dominion and that's one reason he really you know wanted to bring it in
14:05 so dominion has definitely been the primary focus of
14:09 our company and it definitely is right now
14:13 we have the other games but a lot of the other games that we are developing were
14:17 developed by external people unlike dominion that we brought in
14:21 and really
14:21 it's all internal and we have focused on making it
14:26 as good as we can
14:28 uh... you know at the point of course
14:31 we're still in development so it's not
14:33 perfect yet
14:36 but we also, along with
14:38 ourselves, internally, have been working with donald x
14:43 who is the developer of dominion
14:46 so that we're getting it right from that angle too
14:55 so let me see if i answered that question
14:57 so as far as our best guys on it, yep
15:00 we definitely have you know some of the best people we have here working
15:04 on dominion
15:06 right, so next question
15:08 will there be a package deal to purchase all the current
15:12 expansions in one go?
15:17 so we will have a package deal
15:20 where you will
15:21 be able to purchase
15:23 all the current extensions that we have so far uh... and we will continually put
15:27 out package deals as we have the
15:30 expansions available
15:36 so next question
15:39 are any translations, especially into german, planned in the near future?
15:44 and will you publish a road map of upcoming features?
15:47 so
15:48 german is the next language that we really want to put, especially dominion, out in
15:52 and as we know it's pretty popular
15:55 i dont have
15:57 the timing for that right now just because there are
15:59 lots of factors
16:01 involved in that
16:02 uh... as far as a roadmap um... one of the few things that i can tell you
16:06 that's going on right now is that we are working really hard on getting
16:09 an iOS app
16:11 for the iPad and iPhone out there
16:13 uh...
16:15 also we are hoping to integrate with -?-
16:19 so something like this that you'd be able to play to your friend
16:23 uh... and talk to them while you are playing dominion
16:26 the thing after that, a couple things after that are working on uh... facebook
16:31 and windows 8 versions
16:33 uh... we're going to
16:35 do our best to
16:37 make sure that we keep the community informed on what we're working on
16:41 and how
16:42 uh... and what we're trying to
16:44 to do with the
16:45 near future
16:48 so next question
16:50 how do you feel about comparisons between your company and zynga in the
16:54 mainstream press
16:58 so we feel like
16:59 that
17:01 the type of games that we're trying to do are very different than zynga
17:05 uh... were very different in the way we're trying to approach
17:09 games
17:10 we want games that are at their core are really fun
17:14 and that's one of the reasons that we started with dominion because it's
17:17 already proven to be fun
17:20 and so we
17:22 wanted to continue to build on that we never want to take that away and make it
17:26 into something that it's not
17:28 so we definitely are very different in the way that we're approaching
17:31 uh... things here
17:34 so not only are we trying to have
17:36 games that are really fun
17:38 uh... but we're also
17:40 doing something that's very different in that
17:42 we are providing the tools to make those games
17:45 so even if you know
17:47 of course everyone here likes dominion
17:50 for those that are
17:53 um... looking to make their own games as well
17:55 we will have a platform
17:58 for you to make the type of game that you want to make
18:02 alright, so next question
18:04 will automatch be implemented?
18:07 can i filter opponents based on ranking?
18:10 so
18:11 yes we're going to be implementing
18:14 automatch
18:16 so the original way we tried to implement it, some of the very early beta
18:19 testers might
18:20 kind of remember this
18:23 uh we
18:25 it didn't quite work out just because of the
18:27 number of people we had in and
18:29 it doesn't feel right so we went ahead and took that out
18:32 and now we are
18:35 going to try to make something that is a quick match play in the game
18:39 so we're still working on the UI and the -?- for that
18:43 so once we get that right we're hoping to turn that on again and have a better
18:48 quick-match program
18:51 but that so
18:52 hopefully
18:53 you know before too long we will have that
18:58 alright, so next question
19:00 will there be any deal for getting
19:03 price cuts by buying physical copies of existing or future expansions
19:08 so right now we can't do that just because it's hard to keep track of
19:13 who bought what and things like that because we really aren't
19:17 rio grande so it's hard to
19:20 do that. the one thing we do have of course is that im sure some of you have seen
19:24 little cards that came in the base set and came in dark ages
19:28 so you will be able to use those touch cards very soon and that will get you a nice
19:32 little sampler pack
19:35 uh... that you can redeem but as far as getting a discount on the type of things
19:39 we uh cant do that right now
19:43 next question
19:44 what kind of achievements will there be
19:47 can you tell us more about the campaign mode
19:50 or any possibility of a
19:51 fast lightweight mode of play
19:55 for players that don't want the graphics-?-
19:59 ok so these are kind of three separate questions so i will answer them one at a time
20:04 uh... the first question
20:06 uh... about achievements is
20:08 that a lot of the achievements we are going to be implementing were actually designed by
20:12 donald x himself
20:14 so we're really excited about that uh...a lot of them will be
20:18 per card
20:19 so you may have a special achievement for doing something
20:24 like play a certain number of villages or something like that so
20:27 exactly what those are i cant say yet
20:30 but they'll be up there
20:32 um...
20:35 so the campaign mode is going to be called adventures
20:41 so there will be for each full set there will be three different
20:43 adventures that
20:47 you can play through
20:50 so
20:51 each one of them will have the type of
20:52 kingdom cards it will be
20:56 kind of like what you are used to
20:58 but the differences will be the starting hands uh... as well as just some other you know
21:02 little tweaks. there will be a storyline through it so we are really excited about that and hoping that
21:08 it
21:08 will be interesting to people
21:11 just to be something different than what
21:14 people are playing with now
21:16 but will complement
21:17 the fact that you can still play
21:19 just a plain game with your friends
21:21 or with the bots
21:23 so the last part of the question was about the fancy graphics
21:26 is kind of like some of the other stuff
21:28 uh... we don't have
21:32 it in our plans to make a lightweight mode but
21:36 if a lot of people ask for it
21:37 who knows down the road
21:40 so um...
21:42 next question
21:44 what is the peak number of unique users
21:48 who have attempted to access the server
21:51 how many did you
21:53 performance test for?l
21:55 so this question is essentially what happened
21:59 so
22:00 when we opened on the first day of GenCon
22:03 our service
22:05 really started exhibiting some
22:07 uh...
22:08 unknown networking issues and some of
22:11 these issues hadn't really can't see on our beta machines before
22:17 um... and
22:18 not really during our loading tests either
22:22 so we were uh
22:24 pretty surprised by what happened so at some point
22:27 you know we
22:29 pretty much worked
22:31 two days straight
22:32 uh...
22:33 some of the engineers were left here to try and fix it
22:36 and we finally realized its best that we
22:42 stand back
22:43 pullout and
22:45 re-evaluate
22:46 what's going on instead of trying to put a bandaid on it
22:49 so we know that was super painful for everyone in the community because everybody
22:54 wants to play
22:55 and
22:56 we all felt
22:57 horrible about that and you know
23:00 we're really sorry
23:02 we wanted to do
23:04 the best thing for the players at the time as well
23:06 so we're kind of standing back
23:08 fixing the thing that really needs to be fixed
23:11 and then
23:12 going for it
23:13 again
23:14 and hopefully during this time we are also making
23:17 some good changes to dominion to really improve the user experience
23:23 so
23:25 next question
23:26 then i hereby clamor at the top of my lungs not only for a simple point
23:30 counter but also for an official full deckcounter at least as extensive as doctor held's point counter
23:39 so uh we would love to work with dr held
23:44 so if he wants to contact us you can contact us through
23:48 help@goko.com and we'll see what we can do and maybe we can
23:53 work with him to use that same one through some things
24:00 so next question
24:01 how will will be able to get the base cards with new art? will we have to pay for it to unlock it?
24:07 uh... so there is probably going to be two ways to get the base
24:10 card set, one through
24:12 uh... what we called victory tokens
24:14 which you can earn in the campaigns
24:16 as well as some
24:18 there will be some various other ways to earn
24:22 or you can also just purchase them so those are the two ways you are going to get the base cards with new art
24:31 ok next question
24:32 how can i download a batch of play logs for analysis?
24:36 so i will go ahead and put this address out there but i will
24:40 say it as well
24:41 it's going to be dominionlogs.goko.com
24:45 so they are organized
24:47 by day
24:50 so if you'd like to go ahead and take a look you can
24:53 look through all the logs for analysis
24:57 okay so that's all the questions i have here
25:01 and if theory would be kind enough to give me the
25:05 next question
25:12 oh boy, alright, so here we go
25:15 so the question is i think security is one of the top concerns right now
25:19 during
25:20 the time the production server was up all the bugs identified
25:24 uh... javascript injection plain text -?- were identified in the production server
25:28 so how do you plan to rebuild user trust in the platform
25:33 so arm
25:35  we are looking into
25:37 quite a few different
25:41 processes
25:43 and other things so i can't really give you a great answer for all the
25:48 things that we're doing
25:50 to do that right now
25:52 i will answer this question once i have that list so
26:02 number two
26:05 can you describe funsockets primary
26:08 intended market for its games. how do you balance the wants of the various communities?
26:14 so i think to start
26:17 what we're really trying to do with
26:18 especially
26:20 well it really depends on the game but with dominion we are
26:23 really trying to focus on people that already play the game
26:26 people
26:27 who
26:30 enjoy dominion
26:34 uh and
26:35 while, once we get it strong for those people
26:38 we know that we can then
26:40 open it up team people who
26:42 haven't been introduced yet
26:44 so
26:45 along with you know, starting to have a good -?-
26:47 for our game for the people who play it the most,
26:51 then we're adding things like tutorials
26:54 and other how-to's
26:57 and other strategy guides for people
27:01 who don't play it as often
27:03 so we're doing our best first to get it strong for the people there who will
27:07 play it the most
27:09 and then bring in the people who
27:11 are also wanting to
27:12 learn it and might become huge fans
27:20 so next question
27:21 offline play is a hugely requested feature
27:24 are there actualplans and timeframes to put it up
27:29 or is it just up in the air for now
27:32 so, we don't have actual time lines on
27:35 this right now
27:38 we're quite aware that it's a hugely requested feature and we're definitely
27:41 looking in to, you know,
27:43 different ways to implement something like this
27:48 uh... though i'm really not sure exactly when that is going to happen
27:57 so question number four
28:00 can you describe the best
28:01 pricing plan you have in mind for dominion and other games
28:05 how would you justify the pricing when compared to other online games
28:13 so as far as pricing, um...
28:15 you know there's a lot of things being discussed on how to make it
28:19 the best thing for the players
28:22 so i
28:23 can't answer
28:25 you know justification for anything right now because
28:28 uh... there are a lot of things that are still being developed behind the scenes
28:33 so hold on,
28:35 we will have more information on pricing
28:42 so number five
28:45 how do you plan to improve communication between funsockets and the board gaming community in the future
28:50 one of the primary community
28:51 complaints is that there has been very little communication from
28:54 funsockets on -?-
28:57 so
28:58 uh... we're definitely trying to improve communication i think the problem
29:04 of course,
29:05 with a community as big as this is there's lots of places where people are
29:09 and its hard to
29:11 get to all those places and inform people of what we're doing and some of
29:16 that is definitely my fault as community manager and i'm gonna do my best to
29:21 make sure that the
29:23 communing knows the direction we're going
29:27 and decisions we make and and why we are making them because like you said
29:31 communication is such an important thing and we really do know that it it's
29:35 really important for you guys to know what we're doing um... because
29:40 it helps you know
29:44 both the exciting things that we are having and to keep the expectations right
29:49 so uh... i definitely will continue to try to have things like this video that
29:55 hopefully will improve communication on what we're trying to do it
30:00 ok so question number 6
30:06 other than dominion
30:08 catan, and RFTD, what are some of the other 150 games who signed up to the -?-
30:13 unfortunately i can't quite say right now which games we have
30:19 we have some exciting ones and i wish i could. so i'm going to kind of hold off on that question. i'm going to ask what games i can talk about, and so i will probably answer that question by text later.