CnCSaga.de

Interview with Jim / Zéphyr (english)

Please tell us something about you!
--) I'm Zephyr, my real name is Jim Sordet, and I'm the Administrator of CnCSaga.com since February
2008. I work for CnCSaga since 2005 and I have hired by Tchutch as a Moderator on the forums. It's a graceful way, I think ^^ Since October 2009, I have a new role in the french community of C&C : I'm the Executive Director of EA Community France, with 5 websites associeted (Battlefield-Somua, CnCSaga, Crysis-France, NFS-Mania.com, Medal-of-Honor.fr).
And in my real life, I'm a swiss and I'm Computer-Scientist (in June, I will receive my Federal Certificate), and I have a politician activity, in my state (Neuenburg Kanton), i work for the Ministery of Education as State Fonctionnary.

Tell us something about your webpage www.CnCSaga.com!
--) It's the best website where I ever work. It's like a big familly. We share the same passion : Command and Conquer, and videogames. I have a great staff, and I'm honoured to work to the Community of C&C.

What is your estimate of the project CnCSaga.de? What does it mean to you and what is your opinion to all that?
--) If the Administrator of these website were motivated and inovative, the german version of CnCSaga, will be know the same success like the french version of CnCSaga. I have heard, EA Germany, who said "it's a great project". And I agree with EADE.

A few days ago CnC 4 was released in Europe. What do you think about this epic end of the saga? What’s with game-play, story and background music?
--) The Gameplay is innovative, I play a lot with my staff at C&C4 because the game is not finished shortly. The story of the Tiberium Saga is really cool, it's my favourite, but the end of CnC4, it's a big deception because I have no answers for my questions. And finally, the soundtrack is the better I ever heard for a CnC.

We had to suffer a setback and the community is bad-tempered. Developers were fired, the community has split up and even the German community manager is now leaving. What is the meaning of all this in your opinion?
--) Yes the community is desappointed. I know, but I hope for the future, it's better. Because C&C will be reseted for the new CnC in 2013, with a new team of developpers, writers and producers. For Nils, or -Fix- if you don't know his name, it's a best friend of mine and we have a lot of discussion with him, and that's for studying why he left the role of Community Manager of C&C in germany. And I respect that.
For the new Community manager in germany, because C&C needs a CM, I see Eric (Gambler) for this role. It's a big fan too. C&C nevers dies. Because, it's a big franchise.

What do you do in your spare time? Do you have some other hobbies?
--) In my spare time, I haven't a lot of time in the day (I need 48 hours for a day !), but I play videogames. Essentially, real time strategy, or first person shooter. And to avoid cataloging me as a geek-nolife , I go on political debate in my city (Neuenburg) and I go to have drink with my friends the week-end (the pubs close at 4 o'clock in switzerland ).

What is your function at EA Community Team, what is your daily routine like?
--) My fonction at EA Community France, is Executive Director. I work for the EA community to have a lot of things (Lunch day, Lan-party, contests, etc...) and I work on this 5 franchises of EA Games : Battlefield, Command and Conquer, Crysis, Medal-of-Honor, Need For Speed, with the Administrators of each websites and their community.

EA Community France, is a sort of "United Websites", because before, we never communicate each other. And since October 2009, we have a lot of discussions about the future of the community. And for my daily routine, I haven't a really power of decision, it's the 5 administrators who decided and I execute their decision. However I can recommand the vote, and, usually, they follow my recommandation.

What would you say about the situation in the community? What’s coming up? What would be a pleasure for you?
--) The Community is waiting a new and real C&C. But a lot of new fans comes after the release of C&C4. It's a difficult question ^^ because we have a lot of opinions.
And for my "pleasure", I hope to have a interative community. A lot of fan never talks on the forum, but to make a CnC, it's important to have opinion of fans.

Waht you think about the german C&C community?
--) Hahaha. It's, I think, the biggest community of videogames in the world, for any games. The german people loves to play videogames. In the french-speaking community, it's not the same situation. We have good players, but not a wide community of players.
I enjoy the german people for that. Anyway I speak (a few) german, but It's a complicated language, I promise to study better german at school ! I will go on Berlin next week, it's a good choice for my german-speaking training ^^