Mexican interview about Konami and PES 2016
801 views • 10/30/2015
A mexican employee of Konami is talking about the PES Community and the game Pro Evolutiob Soccer 2016 in an interview
| 00:00 - 00:07 | So now you are going to tell us how treat your beloved PES Community |
| 00:07 - 00:08 | [crowd laughs [even Fifa players]) |
| 00:08 - 00:10 | Why is everyone laughing? |
| 00:11 - 00:17 | I don't know man. We did a good job. Everyone should be happy. |
| 00:18 - 00:20 | But Community doesn't seem to be happy |
| 00:21 - 00:24 | Why not? We got the Gamescom award second time in a row. |
| 00:25 - 00:26 | Does it satisfy you Konami? |
| 00:26 - 00:28 | Satisfy us? |
| 00:29 - 00:32 | Or do you think Community is satisfied with it? |
| 00:33 - 00:39 | No. We before release we already knew the awards aren't enough. |
| 00:39 - 00:44 | Really? So you planned to improve and change things? |
| 00:45 - 00:51 | Yes of course. And right from the beginning we had a plan how to offer more content to our community. |
| 00:51 - 00:56 | And believe it. This plan was genius. You will love it. |
| 00:57 - 01:01 | (laughs in spanish) |
| 01:03 - 01:05 | So are you going to tell us your plan? |
| 01:06 - 01:13 | Yes, if you want to know it. But I have to admit we got help. |
| 01:13 - 01:14 | Help from professional marketing companies? |
| 01:15 - 01:20 | No we tried to do it like the best companies in gaming industry (EA and UBISOFT) who published games like.. |
| 01:21 - 01:22 | Like Assassin's Creed Unity for example |
| 01:23 - 01:32 | Yes like Unity. And we knew that if we want to be successful like them we would have to act like them. |
| 01:33 - 01:34 | Sounds reasonable. |
| 01:35 - 01:40 | Yes, thanks. I meant we had some bad years. We didn't start well on Playstation 3 and XBox 360. |
| 01:41 - 01:43 | It was a very bad time for us. We lost many fans and customers to FIFA. |
| 01:44 - 01:50 | But at least we had some loyal fans who kept buying and playing Pro Evolution Soccer. |
| 01:51 - 02:00 | And there were the Patch teams. Like PESGalaxy, PTE Patch oder PESEdit who did a lot for the community. |
| 02:01 - 02:01 | And it was genius what they did. They were able to change logos, add kits, stadiums and complete leagues to the game. |
| 02:11 - 02:14 | But it's not our fault. Due to licenses we were not allowed to add these things. |
| 02:15 - 02:30 | So thanks to these guys... No. Heroes. Thanks to these heroes the players could have a good time with our product. |
| 02:31 - 02:38 | These heroes invested a lot (free)time for their work. They made KIts, shoes, balls, stadiums, evertyhing. Some nights they didn't even sleep. |
| 02:40 - 02:45 | But thanks to them we from Konami could sleep alot. |
| 02:46 - 02:56 | We had a look into their file. Quite interesting to see what they changed in our game. And I have to admit: we loved their work more than our own. |
| 02:57 - 03:10 | They even improved things like goal nets, the turf, crowds and stadium sounds. Impressive huh? |
| 03:11 - 03:17 | It's amazing. How could they love our game even more than we do? They added everything to our game which should have been our job. |
| 03:18 - 03:19 | Even realistic modeled faces. |
| 03:20 - 03:23 | Yes even faces which were top notch. |
| 03:24 - 03:26 | So have you given a thought about saying thanks to your community? |
| 03:27 - 03:30 | You mean money? Mone doesn't grow on trees you know.. |
| 03:30 - 03:33 | No, not money I meant by making the game better.. |
| 03:34 - 03:52 | Ah. I see. Of course we did! I mean look at PES 2015! What a comeback after PES 2014. With this we got the first Gamescom award. It was decent and made fun. |
| 03:53 - 04:05 | Very nice to see that our "efforts" worked out so well. The press was happy. The gamers were happy. Our bank account was happy. So we were happy. |
| 04:06 - 04:19 | But we said. That's not everything. There's still so much potential left, we can do it better and be even more successful. |
| 04:20 - 04:30 | So we had a meeting with everyone in the company. "Let's go guys. We need to collect ideas for the future of the game". |
| 04:31 - 04:37 | Everyone was there. Everyone, even the janitor. |
| 04:38 - 04:45 | Did i just say everyone? Except Hideo Kojima of course. But he counts as much as our customers do. |
| 04:46 - 04:50 | (laughs in spanish) |
| 04:51 - 04:53 | No, seriously. We had a plan |
| 04:53 - 05:01 | (laughs hard in spanish) |
| 05:01 - 05:14 | So developers said "Let's give them a good PC Version, one that keeps up with Playstation 4 and XBox One. Let's call it Hybrid version''. |
| 05:15 - 05:22 | HYBRID!!!!!! He really planned to mix Last Gen with next Gen and call it HYBRID. |
| 05:23 - 05:28 | And you know what? That's exactly the way we did it. |
| 05:29 - 05:34 | (bursts out in tears out of spanish laughter) |
| 05:35 - 05:40 | But wait till you hear about the other thing. |
| 05:40 - 05:42 | (laughs in spanish) |
| 05:42 - 05:46 | The XBox One version doesn't even have FULL HD! |
| 05:47 - 05:54 | (laughs even harder in spanish) |
| 05:55 - 06:01 | Can you imagine this? A football game that doesn't provide FULL HD on a neg´xt-gen console. IN 2015? |
| 06:02 - 06:13 | But seriously now. We had some plans for the fans. We got the Euro 2016 which was a big deal. And then we promised more licenses.. |
| 06:14 - 06:22 | Everything worked perfect. We even won the second Gamescom Award for the best Sports Game. |
| 06:23 - 06:30 | (laughs in spanish) |
| 06:31 - 06:48 | And then after Gamescom someone suggested: "We received the award, the pre-orders are sufficient and the press supports us. We could chill after demo release". |
| 06:49 - 06:50 | That's how you did it? |
| 06:51 - 06:53 | That's how we did it! |
| 06:54 - 06:57 | (laughs in spanish) |
| 06:58 - 07:02 | How to cope with transfers? Let the intern handle it? |
| 07:03 - 07:11 | (laughs in spanish) |
| 07:12 - 07:16 | Now comes the best part. |
| 07:17 - 07:31 | He had no idea how to do it. So we had a football game with old roosters from season 14/15. But we kept the community quite by telling them it will be updated. |
| 07:32 - 07:35 | (Silence in spanish) |
| 07:36 - 07:38 | On 29th October. |
| 07:39 - 07:43 | (laughs in spanish) |
| 07:44 - 07:47 | We didn't even fulfill that promise. Roster aren't up tp date yet. |
| 07:48 - 07:50 | (laughs in spanish) |
| 07:51 - 07:59 | We just included transfers till the 30th of August and erased all edited faces by the way. |
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