Let's not fool ourselves, you think they never spoke about this site when eating lunch together or smoking Shisha or while having a beer?. Not all the time. But occasionally. I'm sure they have discussed many of our posts on a number of opportunities. And maybe, if they were finally able to put a voice to our complains or comments about different areas of the game, they'd finally see that we mean it in the best possible way.
Heh. Did exactly that years ago at a couple shisha places with Adam. Met with and accompanied him a couple days. I always put evoweb in good light and tried my best to convince him we're a good passionate bunch. How I like you guys and find you all funny in a good way. He didn't like this place at all, no matter what I said. He took a lot of what we said to heart, and negatively. I tried my best to tell him not to take it that way, that we all cared about the game in our own ways, and not be too sensitive. It just felt like no matter what I said, it fell on deaf ears. Like he had so much bad history he didn't care anymore. But the good thing was he at least trusted me back then. Had some faith in me, somehow, to represent this asylum. But things didn't progress much since, and I lost all hope, especially when he kept repeating the same responses along the lines of, "it's only your opinion". Always felt shunned whenever I carried the opinions of this board and presented them to him. Even when I did the poll. Always got the same responses like we're nothing compared to the masses, so we don't matter. So I lost all energy, hope, said f it and moved on since.
All power to
@Chris Davies ,
@Matt10 and whoever else sharing our thoughts and opinions still willing to fight that fight and trying. Power to you.
Met with Masuda and his translator for dinner and shisha. I still have their business cards.
I still to this very day can't believe that I actually reached that high. I reached the peak. Some random dude on the forums posting about PES, who's one of his boyhood dreams since the 90s was to meet the guys or guys who make Winning Eleven, or ISS. I actually say with the main guy, Masuda. Can't get any higher than that. I could've weaseled my way in, played suck up just to get in and be one of the guys, but I didn't, and couldn't. I didn't do all that for that purpose. I had a goal and that's all I wanted to do. I wanted PES to be great and pass on the opinions of all of you here and other similar forums like PES gaming (pesinsight) and pesfan.
I remember wanting to mail them once. In the 90's. Actual envelope and everything, but didn't know how to reach them. Years later i had internet and found their email, which of course belongs to the Japanese HQ, and my massive email was of course all in English, all talking about ML and giving them ideas how to improve and fix it. Of course I knew no one would read it and none would care, because who am I really? Some random late teen somewhere in this world. A drop in the ocean. A nobody to them. But I tried, because why not. I cared too much. The game was too good. Wanted it to be even better. I was willing to pour all my energy for free, just to make sure the game stays on top. It was THAT good for me back then. Too passionate.
Well whatever. If you read this far, thanks for your patience. And sorry if this sounds a bit dramatic.
