General Discussion - Compilation of Grinding Gear Games Interviews And Articles -- Updated 31st December, 2013 - Forum

The imminence of Release has encouraged me to 'resurrect' this thread, so I'll be sure to get as many release-related interviews and articles as possible in the weeks leading up to Path of Exile's official Release! spiel. Although I am not sure how complete this is, I've scoured the forum and the web to collate what I could find. Naturally, a lot of these contain out-of-date and repetitive information but consider this an interesting archive of past and present GGG media exposure. Also, it’s amazing just how many of them are Chris acting like he does this every day, and possibly even practices in front of a mirror. I have arranged the three types of media coverage in chronological order, oldest to newest, and will of course update as new media pops up, as it certainly should. Where possible I’ve linked directly to the youtube video rather than the site that embedded it, but all of these work as of the time of posting. If anyone has anything I've missed, just reply and I will get right on it. Closed and Open Beta interviews *VIDEO INTERVIEWS AND STREAMS* 29th June, 2011: Game Planet NZ spotlight and Behind The Scenes (7:57) 29th August, 2011: PAX PRIME (2:49) 20th September, 2011: TGN Interview of Chris Wilson by Cromar (34:33) November 2011: Fragworld’s first Live Q and A with Chris Wilson (1:08:50 -- Audio’s a bit soft) 17th April 2012: Fragworld’s second Live Q and A with Chris Wilson, Raijin and Reiji (1:20:36, lots of questions posted by forum users answered.) 17th May, 2012: Chris Wilson talks to Diablo Inc about the Diablo 3 release and Path of Exile (12:32) 20th July, 2012: Chris Wilson and TotalBiscuit explore the new end-game, Maps (42:46) 29th July, 2012: Chris Wilson answers questions and chats on nolife_Kripparrian's stream of a PoE playthrough (just over 3.5 hours...) 30th July, 2012: Chris Wilson with Kungen (5 parts in playlist) (2hrs, 22 minutes) 31st July, 2012: Community Q&A with Chris Wilson by raijin63 at Fragworld (1hr, 57 minutes) 15th December, 2012: Chris Wilson Q and A on nolife_Kripparrian's stream (roughly 3 hours...) 15th Jan, 2013: Jonathan Rogers interview with RPad.TV (11:08) 17th Jan, 2013: Chris and Jonathan stream with Gamespot (30:02, starts at roughly 5:40) 17th Jan, 2013: au.ign previews PoE with a video overview by Chris (6:55) 19th Jan, 2013: Curse Entertainment interviews Chris Wilson (8:59) 19th Jan, 2013: News 10 interviews Jonathan Rogers (4:52) 22nd February, 2013: MMORPG.com twitch-interviews Chris Wilson (41:07) (transcription here, with many thanks to peachii for their very hard work in converting the interview into text!) 30th March, 2013: MMO Attacks interviews Chris Wilson for GDC 2013 (7:40) *AUDIO INTERVIEWS AND PODCASTS* August 14th, 2011: Flux Interviews Chris Wilson for the Diablo Podcast #30 (46:19) 13th September, 2011:Dopefish’s interview of Chris Wilson (41:14) September 15th, 2011: Core Elements interviews Brian Weissman (1:25:14) 13th January 2012: Gamers1432’s interview of Chris Wilson (41:47 -- watch if only for the epic introduction.) 16th January, 2012: The RPG-Fan Interviews Chris Wilson (30:12) *WRITTEN INTERVIEWS* 1st September 2010: Head Staff of GGG, interviewed by Eric Bruce and Paul Younger (Two parts.) 13th September, 2010: Imperio Gamer interviews Chris Wilson (Interview in Spanish, google translate works...fairly well.) October 4th, 2010: Bigdownload.com chats with Chris Wilson 11th December, 2010: GameOgre.com interviews Chris Wilson 11th April, 2011: Playsomnia.com’s interview with Chris Wilson (website is Croatian, interview in English) 19th August, 2011: VGView interview with Developer and Producer of Path of Exile…Chris Wilson September 2011: 227 Gaming interviews Developer…Brian Weissman (another Croatian site, interview in English) 18th October, 2011: Modulopfer.de interviews Chris Wilson (German site, English interview) 7th February, 2012: Marooners’ Rock interview with Chris Wilson (Three parts) 28th February, 2012: Interview with Developer Rory April 2012: Brian Weissman with Top Tier Tactics May 15th, 2012: Brian discusses open beta with Examiner.com July 20th, 2012: RPGWatch Preview with Chris Wilson Q&A 26th October, 2012: Games.on.net interview with Chris Wilson about Act 3, Open Beta and other ARPGs 31st October, 2012: incgamers interviews Chris Wilson about act 3, Open Beta patch/content updates and crowd-funding 1st November, 2012: Brother Laz talks to incgamers about unique item creation for Path of Exile 15th January, 2013: Jonathan Rogers interviewed by VG247 19th January, 2013: Massively.Joystiq interviews the 'team' 21st May, 2013: Games.on.net interviews Chris Wilson (Skype transcript) 4th October, 2013: GameGuys News10 dot net interview Jonathan Rogers about 1.0 features (4:16) 4th October, 2013: Erick of Gamespot interviews Chris Wilson and delves new Release features in detail (36:24) 4th October, 2013: GamerHub Videos interviews Jonathan Rogers (nice details of the Scion's design in background) (3:50) 4th October, 2013: MyGeekReview interviews Chris Wilson with questions from the Reddit community (14:49) (This video appears to be monaural) 4th October, 2013: Gamesrader previews Path of Exile 1.0 4th October, 2013: Massively by Joystiq examines Path of Exile 1.0 features in detail 4th October, 2013: Gamerevolution previews 1.0, with an excellent tagline 4th October, 2013: MMORPG.com previews Path of Exile 1.0 4th October, 2013: Free to play.tv previews Path of Exile 1.0, with a focus on steam functionality 30th December, 2013: Athene Interviews Chris Wilson (48:51) And they said I was bad at PoE. At least I made it out of act 1 and know how to use the /dnd function. El oh fucking el. I am Path of Exile's biggest whale. Period. Last edited by Foreverhappychan#4626 on Dec 30, 2013, 5:52:51 PM	Posted by Foreverhappychan#4626 on May 19, 2012, 1:12:24 AM Alpha Member Quote this Post
Nice post. The Anti-Troll, Troll. BLARGHNARGHANGHA	Posted by P4N1K#6631 on May 19, 2012, 1:39:12 AM Quote this Post
Thanks man! Joined the ship at Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 1:15 PM. Exiled on Wraeclast since Friday, October 28, 2011 at 6:06 AM. Quoted from PoE - About: "Path of Exile immerses the player in a gritty and realistic art style that goes against the current industry trend of cartoony RPGs. ". NUFF SAID.	Posted by casaito#4474 on May 20, 2012, 4:26:17 PM Quote this Post
Nice thx for this little sum. It helps for ppl like me , new to the PoE world :D	Posted by steventot#3974 on May 23, 2012, 8:02:25 AM Quote this Post
Oh what joy! Time to strengthen my love for GGG.	Posted by Buck#7093 on May 23, 2012, 8:04:02 AM Quote this Post
Thanks dude. Appreciate it.	Posted by MachOneBreak#3662 on May 27, 2012, 6:06:40 PM Quote this Post
Edit: I'll just summarize whatever new tidbits were answered in the videos: Mercenaries We have some very interesting plans that unfortunately we can't talk about yet. (...) Really cools plans. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dr7LLFcsMkM&t=30m40s Mods support/User-made content It's very unlikely, though ideas and content can be sourced from the community feedback. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dr7LLFcsMkM&t=33m9s Pants No extra pants slot. Plus, none of the guys in the office wear pants. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dr7LLFcsMkM&t=35m21s Last edited by DeF46#3887 on Jul 6, 2012, 10:32:34 PM	Posted by DeF46#3887 on Jul 5, 2012, 11:28:04 PM Quote this Post
It was, actually. Then it wasn't. Now it is again. And they said I was bad at PoE. At least I made it out of act 1 and know how to use the /dnd function. El oh fucking el. I am Path of Exile's biggest whale. Period.	Posted by Foreverhappychan#4626 on Jul 6, 2012, 12:34:50 AM Alpha Member Quote this Post
Omg cheran thanks lol ill be lurking this thread for a bit lol, o btw I been sick lately so I haven't been getting much forum time in or game time :( waahhh but I was on today and the TOG plague is back And worse! O ya silver --> Please don't pm me asking for beta keys :)	Posted by Sillex#6857 on Jul 6, 2012, 12:46:43 AM Quote this Post
Nice. Thanks for taking the time to put all of these in one place.	Posted by wknight420#2318 on Jul 6, 2012, 1:15:12 AM Quote this Post