AMA with Alex Watkins

By FFGEvan, in News

what are your thoughts on avocado toast?

if your feelings today were a spaceship, which would they be?

can cats have a little salami, as a treat?

When will any UK X wing national and regional dates be announced?

And as a side question, when will the prize support for each type of event be previewed?

All keyforge questions.

Are there any plans to make the organized play results more accessible via the api? Currently the only way find out how decks performed at any event is to take a snapshot of the master vault before and after an event concludes and look for decks with changed power levels, wins, losses, and chains.

Are their any plans to make organized play results more accessible via master vault or some other website? Currently the community is dependent on master vault scraping solutions or reports from the players at the events. Both of these are error prone and often incomplete.

Are event organizers allowed to share the complete list of all decks that attended their event and their final placement? Do you know why yeti released the full list of decks for only 1 of their vault tours?

Are lgs allowed to share or release information from the backup files gem can create to third parties?

Edited by agrandstudent

When will FFG OP (predominantly X-Wing) not use pen and paper anymore to submit results?

First question(s) is regarding Marvel Champions. Are there currently plans for OP? Several people missed out on launch kit opportunities, but stores seem to understand how popular MC LCG is now. Will FFG increase OP kit availability to discourage outrage aftermarket prices? Will there ever be cards printed that are above/on par with the expert difficulty tier for OP?

Second general question, would it be possible for FFG to keep a searchable location for all of the OP promos that get released for a game and their source? This seems to be a problem with Keyforge and X-wing. Several items require community input to track down where they actually came from.

Is there any chance to make distribution of kits more transparent for players - especialy those on 'store' level?
Now it's hard to say what is the status what can be ordered when i should be ordered. With this knowledge players who organize night leagues can prompt shop owners to order something as prizes.

X-wing OP questions.

1. Does the 11 day rule need to be modified and become related to each release cycle to avoid "exceptions" being requested when releases are close to changes and major events (like wave 6, January HS/points update, UK SOS likely "exception")?

2. Will last chance quals and/or worlds be hosted outside the US at some point?

3. Can communities and clubs get a qualification criterion for being able to access OP events and kit? Our local store went under a few months ago but we are trying to keep the community alive and OP support would be crucial for that ( league, or store champ type support would be great).

Thanks

Dimitris,

TNX squadron, Bromley, UK

re: Keyforge

1) When will FFG announce plans to host more Vault Tours outside of the USA and Europe? (e.g. SE Asia and China) Players from these countries want to redeem their shards.

2) When will FFG announce the next plans for the Vault Warrior series? Players need to prepare travel plans ahead of time.

How are things looking for the X-Wing System Opens in Europe? When will the dates for the remaining ones be released?

Edited by Kristofer_Bengtsson
On 1/15/2020 at 4:24 AM, eristotle said:

Many stores will not support organized play at all, but that's especially true for the cooperative games. Why will organized play not allow game groups to purchase game night kits and run them themselves? Communities are already doing the majority of the work in promoting your products - give them the tools they need to grow the player base.

Because nothing stops you from making a group of 4 friends for exemple, and buying 4 kits cause you say you wanna run the event 4 times, and just resell the prizes or just keep them, essentially making them something you buy rather than win. Which I know is done by some resellers like al_blackstone or protechmodels. So yes it does feel a little bit annoying that retailers get to do it, but not gaming groups or individuals

Which event are we getting for X-Wing at the UK Games Expo this year?

Nationals? Europeans?

X-wing OP related:

Seeing the rising popularity of community "team" events. Are there any plans to support an official program and create OP prise support for such events?

Thanks

Dimitris,

TNX squadron, Bromley, UK

What is the core purpose of Organised Play?

How has the new open play format been doing?

How are Organised Play supporting local stores run events?

In Jan 2019 you posted an article talking about the future of OP, looking back at your plans then, what have been your big successes in the last year and where do you think you could do better?

The Legend of the Five Rings prize support has been of fantastic this year, do you have any favourites and what can we look forward to in the year ahead?

Going forward, will the contents of store kits be available before they need to be ordered?

The Hatamoto title was the crown of the original L5R event system, but slowly has lost it’s prestige with less perks, no yearly prize for top Hatamoto, no relevance for clan points, and a few small events where 50% of the attendees ended up with the title. Are there plans to restore the title’s prestige over the next year?

Thanks for all your hard work!

I gotta say, I love this format.

Being able to submit questions on the forum and then have them answered on the weekly video stream feels great.