Here are some from my three day stay in Cologne.
This neat, it looks (see picture above) when Konami PES 2010 builds a stadium. In the demo of the game at the fair was Liverpool and Barca (and Germany and France) to play with and Zlatan was with. This was, unfortunately, as an older version (although a sign with 80%) than the one I played the 11th August (70% -75%). This was confirmed by John Murphy and he also said that a lot of animations will be added before the final version. The reason why GamesCom version seems to be older is that demos are sent to the fair in July month (anecdotal evidence)
We also had a long talk about the online version of PES. The technical equipment has been replaced for 2010. The old online system is as I said from PES6, but with some improvements. For example, it will be lagg free of people who meet live near each other. The servers will then go in and take lagget (can be any tenth lars delay) if you meet people from far far away. It sounds quite a lot of competitor systems. I would first see this with my own eyes.
The talking stopped, however, not here but I went on to commend John for how much fun I thought it was that Konami finally listened to the fans. We talked about how important it was to offline tournaments there. In PES, it is culture and tradition for many to meet and to participate in an offline tournament is not just to play. It is also to meet people with same interest and to discuss the game and football. There is a large portion nice humanity in our PES community, which is best, and Konami will continue to bet on.
It was really nice to talk to John now (last time we met, he must be really sad as it was before the release of PES 2008. Yuck Yuck).
Others who I had a chat with me was, Seabass, and the head of the German office. I will return to these talks tomorrow. Moreover, Finland's perhaps the greatest face in the PES community to give its image of PES 2010.
Do not miss it, but back again tomorrow!