PWI Girl Power! Ask the Devs your questions here!

thenamesdomino

Greetings Perfect World!

The month of May is Girl Power month in PWI! Here’s a little fun fact, did you know that our operations staff is composed entirely of women?
This month we’re going to go behind the scenes of your favorite game and wanted to give you the opportunity to ask them some questions!

Did you want to know how they were able to break into the industry? What challenges they have had to face in a market predominately populated by men? This is your chance to ask! The questions you pose will be circulated with our operations teams both here and in China!

Here are the rules:
- The thread will be open for questions from today until 7pm PDT on Monday, May 9th
- Don't use the thread to report bugs or issues. We have plenty of other threads open for this very reason.
- Don't ask us when X bug will be fixed. We are working to get lots of the high priority issues resolved and fixes will be in when they get in, also we will be reporting them in our patch notes when available.
- Please be respectful of others when posing your questions. We want this to be a safe and friendly place where people who are curious can come to ask us all sorts of stuff.
- Please stay on topic. If you see a question that spurns your need to respond, please open your own thread and discuss it there.

Aside from that this is going to be a pretty open forum... Operators are Standing By.

laiwaisan

Hi so what kinda schooling do i have to go threw to get a job as a dev there or what you girls do?

I love the game and as a player i can see whats wrong with it be nice to be able to fix it.

Im good at html hacking and looking at code i use to make my own game shark codes and look at some one else code and improve on it or make it better.

what be a good starting point and plan to be able to do what you girls do and what would you do diffrent so you didnt have to take out a student loan ?

ayejay101

Given Domino's example as to an industry populated by men, how did you all manage to become an all female team and not a single male? Or rather, how many roles are there to fill? Was the hiring person fond to females or were your qualifications far better than that of other candidates, including males and other females.

Personally where I reside and previous places I worked... the female staff tend to back stab each other to certain points of termination. Do you have that atmosphere? Or are you all friends that small things wouldn't be a bother?​​

bangbang

laiwaisan said:

Hi so what kinda schooling do i have to go threw to get a job as a dev there or what you girls do?

I love the game and as a player i can see whats wrong with it be nice to be able to fix it.

Im good at html hacking and looking at code i use to make my own game shark codes and look at some one else code and improve on it or make it better.

what be a good starting point and plan to be able to do what you girls do and what would you do diffrent so you didnt have to take out a student loan ?

Don't have to be a developer to answer that question. I would suggest computer science as a major in college and a focus in game design. This game is very heavily database based with PHP and PHP is a legacy web server framework. Also, I hate to break it to you but most likely you won't make much working for a gaming company that is based in China because the cost of living is a lot lower over there. Since the cost is living is lower the pay is a lot lower. I highly recommend majoring in Computer Science / Computer Engineering as I did in college and finding a job somewhere in the tech boom. (Silicon Valley, Portland, Texas, Colorado) If you do well you can easily make a nice living. I majored in this field and I enjoy it a lot and hope you will too.

As for my question I was wondering where in China are you guys based because I do travel to China frequently and I would love to visit your office and possibly give suggestions on how to address certain issues with development. I am a Chinese American so I can speak Chinese and I have Graduate degrees in Computer Science. You may respond in Chinese if it is easier for you.

gokceerer1

First all of, hello and thanks for your hard work in these games. Since i've started playing PWI i always wanted to be a part of the staff which made me thinking of studying computer engineering (i am a senior right now wanting to study that). And knowing that the staff includes mostly woman makes me even become more confident in myself. I have lots of in mind right now but i will just keep it short Was it hard for all of you to come where you are right now and what stages you have been through to come where you are right now? And also what i should focus on my studies so i can become great developers like you all. Again thanks for everything

tictic99999

1. What comp language was PW originality written in and why?
2. Did you guys create the original angelica engine from scratch or was it an open source engine?
3. Do you plan on finally upgrading to the Angelica 3 engine so this game can be comparable to 2015-2016 industry standard? (currently the game doesn't even really use your graphics cards and stuff).​​

clyknight

1: why is the canned answer from customer service either we don't see the issue or we'll follow up with the Devs?
Either way, they never actually answer a question or resolve an issue they just push the buck to you and close the ticket

2: is it possibly for someone to **** an account and PWI not detect it?
I've been told we didn't see it so you couldn't possibly have had your bank ****. It's a sad state they think you guys are
more impregnable than anyone one else so it didn't happen if we can't detect it

schnubbelpuh

Why is it still not possible to "homosexuals" enter into marriage? Why can put a bed into the home, where you can not sleep? Why there is not possibility to farm exp in your own home? (As for example with the shards in the mirror world?) Why I had my lovely character exchange Female to Male to marry only another woman?

Seriously - now, more motorcycles in PWI so draw no context for the game, because it can not be that hard sometimes to revise the marriage rights.

thundercleas

are you ever going to fully expand and complete the main map in the game? theres alot of blank space.

asterelle

By what criteria do you judge the state of class balance? There are a lot of factors that can be judged: 1v1 ability, mass PVP ability, PVE damage output, class popularity, player feedback. What factors do you actually consider when deciding which classes should get strong buffs while others are allowed to fall behind?​​

jenna3d

Yea for the Girrrlllz! I am first wondering how many of you there are!

I am interested in a few things which are interconnected in my mind:
1. Why are all the female char's clothes so sexy compared to male chars? A few more normal but pretty looking outfits that don't show so much skin on female chars, please. We have the sexy ones---by the way I liked the faction uniform fash and just wish it came in more colors or was less expensive-it was nice to have the temp fash but now I want it forever in red.
2a. Do you ever play the game and 2b. note all the misogyny spewed in World Chat and 2c. devise ways you can do something to ameliorate that in your position(s)?
3. Are you familiar with GamerGate and what are your thoughts on this?

I am a real woman in real life and congratulations on being (what I perceive as) a unique group!

blazerboy

This seems like the most unproductive use of a GMs time but hey I'll play along.

Personally if this is the topic of woman answer me this. Why do you release new female related fashion at a faster and more alarming rate than men? Lets be honest there are more male cash shoppers than females so how in the world is it fair for females to get atleast one or two [Redacted] sets a month and males get one maybe other month or two months.

I get it on average females are more interested in fashion but there are still plenty of us males who collect just for the sake of a hobby. You really should check on how fast you push female fashion vs male because we are left kn the dust to the point its just basically telling me so I'm a male Im not allowed to look nice ?

tictic99999

why does pwi not have onsite GMs on the ONLY 4 servers we have. any modern MMORPG has 16-24 hour live gm support on-server with deal with issues, do events all the time, ban people, etc.​​

topmasterseller

My question is...
How many frames per second(fps) you devs have got in big scale pvp events...like TW 60vs60 to 80vs80?
And are you going to change the game engine?

freygin

1. Are the questions going to be answered just by text in this thread or there will be a video with Q&A session and real girls doing their daily activities in the game industry ?

2. What positions are these women in the operations, customer service, programmer, artist, or else ? (name them all)

3. Is the business contract between developer and publishers the same all over the world ? Like for example :
-publisher has to pay x% for every boutique item sold, or
-developer just sell license, provide expansion with a price periodically and that's it, how publishers do business is totally up to them, or
-else ?

4. How much is an expansion for PW, I'm curious, like for example Riptide expansion, Warfront expansion, or the latest Elysium expansion ?

5. Since this game is all about dailies and more and more dailies everytime you girls hatched a patch, now it's only fair if I ask how is your dailies in the company xD ? please describe your daily routine there.

keeperofkeys

Hello, I also work in the IT industry as a software engineer, we only have one girl on our development team so I think it is awesome that your whole operations team is female I remember in my "computer science" university course there were absolutely no women at all but that was a heck of a lot of years ago...maybe things have changed now.

Here are my questions...

1. Linux verses Windows...discuss
2. What first got you interested in working in IT?
3. What do you do during the 3 hour maintenance window every week?
4. How much disk space total is there in the PWE data center and how on earth do you back it all up?
5. Do you play PWI?

Thank you for spending the time interacting with the community.

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laiwaisan

must be huge time zone diffrence huh?

sylenthunder

Woohoo! Domino, this is a loaded thread.

1. It's already been asked a couple of times, but seriously, WHEN are they going to update the client engine to Angelica III like they stated they brought Archosaur Group dev's back in November of 2013 to do?
I mean, seriously, it's been well over two years, and it's not like it's a major client re-write for it.

2. WHEN is PWE going to start staffing support appropriately for the large number of games it has currently published? A couple of the games used to have their own support teams still, but lately I'm finding this is no longer the case. It's my understanding that we have approximately 20 people supporting close to 18 different titles on multiple platforms with millions of players each. I don't care how you do the math, that just sucks. Which is why @tictic99999 we don't have active GM's online. There aren't enough to even have one per game and manage tickets. That's not even counting having one on each server. You would need to hire a minimum of 100 more people for support to do that.

3. WHEN is Wanmei going to start focusing more on fixing bugs, and less on useless content?

4. WHEN are the classes going to get skill graphic upgrades? This is another thing that was promised over two years ago when the original dev's were brought back in.

5. WHEN are the older classes going to get the ability to cast while moving? Yet another things that was stated would happen over a year ago when the new classes were introduced. (Along with re-balancing the original class skills to update them more in line with the Two newer races.)

There's an awful lot of stuff that Wanmei said they would work on, and do. Sadly, all we have is more broken content, and more ways to blow money on the game.​​

laiwaisan

Is it true the asia verstion of this game has more pets for venos and all class pets like the mini bosses by twilight temple the male and female bosses by that area?

Will you be adding new pets for veno i seen awesome monsters in primal and celistial also a really cool one by arc a small mini boss that make a cool pet or mount like flameing dark beast would make an awesome veno battle pet or a all class mount.

also we would like to use hypers in Fc algain you guys ever going to bring that back?

you guys should make a fash weps permant id so would buy it if i didnt feel like i was renting fash.

I for one would like to see veno battle pets like herc and harpy and monkey king and dogy and battle robot included in chance packs.

Also want to see weapons in chance packs like warsoul weapons and the new weapons in chance packs.

You guys ever think about stuff like that.

Are you guys allowed to listhen to music when you programing?

laiwaisan

Ohh also when we reborn for the first time i notice we ger armor and a legacy weapon be nice if it was a full set legacy armor and weapon and it says non refinable you ever think about makeing the legacy ra gear and weapon refinable?

beast21g

1.When the game engine will be updated? I feel like i play games back in 2001 and we are in 2016.
2.We will get the VIP system as we see it in last expansion? Is it true that VIP system is only casher privilege? It will be something for no cashers?
3.We will have a new map for TW? It is boring the same map. Make it like cross server TW. Maybe not so big but you got the point.
4.Can we redesign Archosaur? Walls terrain etc.
5.Is it possible to have better customization to players creation screen?

Thanks

laiwaisan

white tiger tameable pet

lild1994

Why is a girl power month in PWI even neccessary to begin with? Seems like a bunch of self engrandizing people are on the operations staff. Seeing as this game has had numerous bugs for bloody years that have not been addressed (the bridge in WS anyone?). Why not actually work on this games issues BEFORE throwing trying to pat ones self on the back for something as arbitrary as gender?

"We want this to be a safe and friendly place where people who are curious can come to ask us all sorts of stuff."

Of course you do. After your various design, marketing, and community management choices has left this game as a shadow of it's former self. And seeing as we now have this 'safe space' type mentality popping up from the Devs themself? Well now i know where this game is headed.

myhero#0905

Why is there a Huuuuuuuuuge lack of gm presence throughout the forums and steam forums. (and has always been )

dblazen

When are you going to do your job and make this game worthwhile again?

just a note for the sjw's, i'm not asking it because they're female, i'd ask anyone regardless because of the position they are in.
Just saying to prevent MUH MISOGYNY posts

I probably won't get an answer anyway​​

myhero#0905

Originally posted by pwe.community:
There is a plan that we're going to be putting into place that still is waiting on approval and modifications by the stakeholders, so until they finally sign off on it, I cannot give any details. Needless to say steam's launch is going to be a celebration.

Still nothing? This game is so god darned dead, played PEAK HOURS lv 1 to 80. Havent been able to find a single squad ONCE untill lvl 80, now i can get together half a pv squad if im lucky. just give us 90 pills othervise people will get bored with leveling alone, this game was sooo much fun when we could play together and get squads at all levels. BUT when we are forced to play singleplayer as it is now. there just isnt any point to it, people get bored quick.

and no we wont get people to play low lvls again, just wont happen, didnt even with steam release, so lets just accept it and give out free lv90 pills.


So as i said still nothing? can we get some word on if this "plan" will be put into place or if they declined it?

kwystal

I suppose as the worst Veno in the game; My question would be:
"Why did you confiscate my two huge Pets?"
Put them away for later, then had a problem with my Bank code trying to get them out. So I had it reset, I still have everything except my two Huge Beasts.
So why did you steal what is mine?

khurshed

hi il cut to the point.

1> Was it hard to get to were You are today?
2> Does the work you do make you feel happy and satisfied at all times?
3>As a female do you ever feel a sense of discrimination at times?
4> Do you feel Happy with how PWI portrays Women and the Fashions that PWI has with them?
5> Lastly , What do you think of the Current state of the Game?

Regards
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kiiyukaa

Company questions!

1. What is your daily routine in the company? What is the first thing you think about when you go through the door?
2. What does your workplace look like? Are there any personal figurines/toys you treat as a mascot?
3. What positions are taken in your workplace?

Game questions!

1. If you could, what would you change in games that you work on?
2. Where do you see the games you develop in 5 or so years? Do you think your games will survive till then? Will they be able to compete with the other games?
3. With the link to the second question, when will the game move to the new engine? If at all.