Okay, couple of questions from little ol' me. Hi from Holland by the way, you guys are in my 'people and companies to worship' book.

1) If you guys are slacking off how do you get pushed back to work? A whip for general use? Todd Howard giving a glare of Doom? Threatening to cut coffee use?
2) Do you guys actually talk to the janitors and kitchen staff as well or are they considered not to be talked to?
3) Do you actually see the cleaning crew or do you have ninja's that clean up so sneakily you can't help but wonder how they do it?
4) Now that I think about question 1. How is the coffee machine? Still broken and resulting in a couple of dev's with serious withdrawal symptoms or did you get the holy machine fixed?
5) Starbucks..love or hate?

He's joking, obviously. They can't tell anything about Skyrim.

Has anyone on the team played Nehrim?

Can I work as a cleaner/janitor/whatever (that cleans or does something non-suspicious) in the game-testing department of skyrim.. night time?

What do you guys think of the "Carrying less weapons, all weapons equipped" thread? HONEST ANSWERS

Are there any Japanese employees at BSG? Or is it mostly white people?

Let's hear some more responses, devs! (So-crates' answer only sorta counts.)




I found this response from killmoms a bit worrisome, too. Though, I think Lady_N is somewhat in the right here. Besides, I'm sure not all jobs at BGS are involved directly with the "creative" process.



Agree!




I would love to participate in such a match. Besides the fact that TF2 is awesome.



This is extremely catchy and fun!



:thumbsup:



Seconded.



Keeping such a computer around for that very reason is epic and quite admirable.

Take On Me is quite a great karaoke song. :laugh:




Super seconded! Love Minecraft! (And TF2.) Curious about the devs' opinions. :biggrin:

Did any of you devs grow up on a farm or at least some sort of household that had a bagillion-and-a-half pets like me?

I think it's because most of the devs are on a holiday break so they aren't really active on the forums. Though their twitter pvssyr is alive and well haha.

Pete has tweeted about having to wear a suit to company parties. How fancy are your parties, were you invited, and what did you wear?

Nick uploaded some pictures of him and a couple others.

Nick Breckon, how many languages do you know?

I want to ask anyone in Softworks:

Do you have an anolyst who correlates market trends with probable market-share allowance?

If so, do you have a task force allocated to probable sociology and mass market appeals?

If either of the above is true (or both) I want to know the following:

Did it ever play into your strategy that 2011 would be the "year of the Celts" i.e. Thor etc.?

Also, I have calculated nearly 8650 points of data regarding electronic releases, weighting and forging reasonable points. With BGS I saw that the biggest jump would be December and that the two highest points would be the 6th and the 16th... too bad I never took the mean or I would have pin pointed the VGAs. With all of the other data compiled since my initial manifesto, I created a future model for EA, Activision, Microsoft Game Studios, Lionhead, and Bethesda Game Studios.

I have three seminars and 167 points of anticipated data to add to the manifesto in the upcoming two months. If my data holds as true as it has been thus far, I may be able to model a marketing tool of predictive quality that should engender reasonable results over 70% of the time. My optimism is throttled by realism here. So we shall see.

Ultimately what I need to know now is from anyone in Bethesda Softworks is whether or not monies spent by other developers/publishers impacted your release/announcement plans?

a 70% is still a D

Hahahaha! Oh god yes, a 70% is certainly still a "D"!

But I would question any marketing anolyst to rebuke a perceptive probability quotient of 70%.

A "D" is better that the 30% chance of being wrong.

Hey Beth,

Hire Sylt. Dude knows how to work a spreadsheet. He makes all the ladies (men?) swoon with his detailed anolyses of marketing trends and wicked perceptive probability quotients.

And then, right after, hire me. Because spending hours making bug notes on one tiny bit of a barely functioning video game in an attempt to break it by emulating the playing behaviors of 9-year-olds and intelligent chimpanzees? That sounds like a damned fine initiation to the industry.

1) I wait until the keyboard breaks and then I ask IT to give me another one. Or until I spill my coffee in it.

2) I leave it on there. I like the refracting effect the snot provides.

3) When I test-fired the prototype tesla cannon, it overloaded the entire Eastern Seaboard's power grid and ground all of our infrastructure to a halt for 72 hours.

So that's what that was

The holiday party is usually pretty swanky. I was, and I wore a suit. :foodndrink:



We clean up pretty well, don't we?

Missed this one the first time around. Joni Mitchell, in the mid-70s, probably right after Hejira came out. Fantastic album.

And yes, the holiday party was a swanky, very fun affair. I wore black Henleys, a blue button-down shirt, and white tie. I still don't own a full suit. :sadvaultboy:

Who is your favourite fictional character?

Here's a few answers...

1) Godflesh. Hands down.

4) World War Z. Would love to see zombie apocalypse on a global scale. Make it like a real-time strategy game where armies have to fight off the undead. Research trees to slow down the advance of the infection, etc.

5) I love to know as much as I can about it.

6) I really liked the colossus creatures in Shadow of the Colossus. They were very memorable and absolutely amazing. I am also usually amazed/alarmed/disgusted by the Silent Hill series of creatures.

7) My favorite artists of all time are old-school fantasy guys. There's just something about those old covers that brings me back... Brom, Larry Elmore, Clyde Caldwell, Alan Lee are some of the best.

Probably not a surprise, but Doctor Who of course

That's "The Doctor" to you!

Anyway,good choice! Any one in particular or just as a whole?

My favorites have been The Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker), The Eighth Doctor (Paul McGann) and The Tenth Doctor (David Tennant).

My favorite character, my favorite show.

My favourite show too, though my fav character is Sherlock Holmes. But they're a bit similar in ways anyway.