A quick feedback, please let the other guy finish his sentences before saying something. Like, you were saying "Yeah" and what not while Jonathan was talking, which muffled his voice and some words he was saying. It's understandable you were excited but, the random "Yeahs" while Jonathan was talking made listening to the VOD really hard. Except that everything else was great dude

Nice first big interview Tri. Don't take the feedback in a bad way. I used to work as a sports journalist interviewing world known footballers (soccer players) and my first one was about the same. You learn when to pause. Jonathan obviously understand this and that he is having a discussion with a hugely passionate fan.

Solid interview. I agree with the feedback about the affirmations, but I think you did a lot right, and I wouldn't give yourself too hard of a time about that. You were very clearly well prepared; the questions were excellent, they flowed well, and you had good follow-ups. That is so much more important than anything else, and I enjoyed watching it. Congrats on the opportunity.

Great interview Tri :) Could tell that you were nervous at the start but it eventually ended up just feeling like a good chat :) Well done for your first interview👍

Friendly advice from someone (me) who wants to see you succeed for your hard work. I read the criticisms about positive affirmations and am reminded of advice given to of all people Emmitt Smith (all time leading rusher in the NFL played for the Dallas Cowboys) and how when scoring a touchdown, someone told him, "act like you've been there before". Ironically, this being Tri's FIRST big interview, that's basically saying "fake it till you make it". Something to ponder (in the sense that you can say as much with a head nod without triggering those who are tuned into your subject's words rather than your own at that time). Overall, the content and questions were REALLY well done. I learned a lot of cool new things about the game and some I hadn't even pondered. Personally, I find people in everday conversation far more intrusive during conversation than anything i noticed here. I attributed the small interjections as the trademark excitement that I'm used to seeing from Tri. Someone said that it's more jarring to people outside the US, which i found interesting...like a cultural difference. Jonathan, whether he wants to be or not, has BECOME the PR guy for POE2 and has to deal with it (not necessarily a fair ask from a game developer, but people give him crap all the time for saying "like" which he's gotten much better at WITH PRACTICE. I anticipate that'll come with time. Overall I hope you view this as it should be. That being a job well done in my opinion. Naturally there's always room for improvement, but great first dip into this realm. Keep it up Tri. Edit: Final thought, I just remembered how much i tampered with the volume in the early morning watching this interview because the difference in output volume was STARK, and maybe THAT is a factor in why people found some of Tri's words jarring. Jonathan was almost inaudible to the point I had to turn it up, then I had to often turn it back down when Tri spoke because he sounded 5x as loud due to microphone or audio differences. Something to refine in future interviews anyway, good luck!

Man, an advice from me, you should never interupt someone speaking saying "yeah, exactly or makes sence" over the other person. With your head signal your agreement/disagreement or when you want to add something or ask question, just say "sorry to interrupt" or "just a question regarding this". I was like you before but then I started listening to recordings of my meetings and I was like @deamn, this does not sound good " so I tried really hard to stop doing this, it is not easy, I completely understand. Really nice they are listening to feedback, GJ.

I love that PoE2 has legs in the middle of the screen

I'm not fully through, but I love the deep dive and small details we got from your questions Tri! Had to pause when you guys talked about dmg tooltip and how there's additional functionality for the passive skill tree. Just wow.. wish it came out sooner now 😭

Incredible interview, great energy! What a journey to this point Tri. So much good Info in here too! Bravo!

Great interview. The live was a bit late in my timezone but honestly well done. It is amazing how it's kept to POE2 which maximises the information given. 🎉🎉🎉🎉 Thank you Tri

Great interview! Good job Tri, thank you !

Great interview, Tri! I hope your trip was fun!

Been waiting for this Tri, congrats!

Great interview, especially after you found your rhythm:) Sidenote, affirmative injections are way more popular in the US than in most other cultures (to my knowledge), especially in some regions. Can def feel weird for the viewer for interviews (especially from those other cultures) but as long as it isn't annoying the one being interviewed it's all good imo:)

❤ amazing interview, Tri! Best one yet. You did great

Besides any criticisms, that was the best ending to an interview with Jonathan yet. Both you guys so happy to talk. So much love for the guys at GGG pioneering the ARPG genre.

Awesome! Great questions and amazing interview - GJ Tri

Lets goooooo , great to see your interview with him after all your videos about other people interview with Jonathan

This was an amazing interview!

Great interview, well done. Loved the positive energy coming out of it and you can feel that you and Jonathan had a good time.

Excellent interview, man!

Great interview!

Great first interview and we learned a lot of info!

Incredible interview! I think, out of all the creators, you had some of the most interesting questions (especially with him revealing how keywords work, with that "Detonating" mention). I loved the attention to detail that your questions had (you must be a big meeting note-taker IRL).

Very illuminating interview! 💪

GJ man. It was a damn good interview. 🎙

Great Interview, Jonathan is the man, oozes passion !

at last, you did it man!

This is by far THE MOST INTERESTING of all interviews of Jonathan. Thank you Tri!!!! so many neat informations you got out of him!

My day is complete!

Good interview, solid questions. My only feedback is to be a bit more sparse when it comes to affirmations when Jonathon or your interviewee is answering a question, for example less "thats great" "okay" "mhmm" while he is talking as it can be distracting when its done too many times

You’re an amazing interviewer! Keep up the great work! Jons mic sounded like he was down at SeaLab2020

Amazing interview! Just having a good time and getting all kinds of juicy info!

Amazing interview my dude! Everyone is so passionate it's honestly awesome. Great job!

Great interview, thanks Tri! I love how passionate all the content creators and devs are when talking about this game. It's always so genuine.

Good job, sir. Well done.

I dont mind the "yeah's" cos its an interview and not a Q&A Session. I think everyone of the PoE2 Com knows Tri is very very very excited. Was a good and interessting interview man!

Great interview, thank you so much! Totally HYPED for POE2!

Bit of a tip Talkative Tri, is when you're giving an interview try to avoid saying a lot of "ok, ok ok,..right" because it becomes annoying and interrupts the flow of the interview for the viewer. It simply detracts from the interview and literally adds nothing. Watch good interviewers and notice how they don't interrupt or give any kind of affirmations while the other person is speaking, that way the interviewed person will listen fully to your questions and not give any interruptions (usually). I know Jonathan Rogers likes to go on for a WHILE when answering questions and to be honest he is a difficult person to interview, but that's when you have to establish as an interviewer a good pace and precise questioning. Anyway, I'm not an expert about it but it's worth giving some feedback so you can study a bit and improve your future interviews etc.

28 minutes in and I feel like I learned more than other interviews. But it's also after the event so some of the guards are down

Did you die Tri? Edit: Congrats on the blow up brother the passion and the vibe is all that makes PoE the GOAT

I enjoyed these questions and the awnsers a lot. Good happy vibe i got. U need to do this more.

Great interview dawg keep it up

LETS GOOOO! GREAT INTERVIEW!!!!

Excellent interview. A lot of good questions asked and answered. But may I give you some feedback? I know you were very excited and have been planning weeks for this interview but the flood of "rights and yeah" was drowning out Johnathan and it was very hard for us to hear what he had to say. Next time please let the person who are interviewing complete their statement without the constant interruptions.

Just finished this and saw your comment on feedback. Always room for improvement, that's a great attitude! Your questions were great, well done both parties!

Good interview, no complaints I think you asked a lot of good questions and clearly have passion for the subject.

Great first interview. I'm sure you have spotted already all the things you have to work on.

Killed it Tri, I was listening to this on the way home from work yesterday and I thought you did an excellent job with the questions you chose to ask and how you adapted on the fly to Jonathan. I didn't mind the "active listening" bit as much as others, maybe just scale that back a bit at the start of the reply and save it more for when he is about to finish and you have a follow up. The only thing I would suggest was at the very start it sounded like your mic had some feedback from Jonathan coming through your speakers (maybe it was on his end, not sure). But nVidia Broadcast can help fix that especially when you already are working with a good hyper-cardioid mic.

great questions Tri, you asked and talked about a lot of things that everyone wants to hear about!

I’d just like to point out that Ziz does this too. In his in person interview with Jonathan he was saying yeahs and agreeing with what he was saying. So not a big deal interview was great.

grats homie! yea you def warmed up over time - kudos. def avoid so much affirmative response as to avoid interrupting but that was mostly in the beginning ^^ my only constructive criticism- grats again went very well in the end. no complaining is nice lol

Watched it live yesterday and the first 30 minutes or so were a bit rough with your interruptions. The audio issues with you being much louder than Johnathan didn't help either. Once that was fixed and you got more comfortable and relaxed the interview improved a LOT though. The later part felt more like a casual conversation between buddies nerding out about their favorite thing and that was great. Keep it up man, overall that was very solid for your frist interview ever.

This was great dude. I think the feedback you're getting is warranted, but once I reframe this in my mind as "...A Conversation with Jonathan Rogers" then I stop noticing the interjections and it feels more like 2 pals talking about the game their both excited about. And I think your excitement gets him more willing to open up. "Interview" sets an expectation. I like how the first thing JRogers talks about is Schwingy's experience. I'm sure others had it too.

Amazing interview Tri. I stopped everything I was doing to watch this once I saw the upload. The time you put into the interview preparation really showed with your follow up questions. The mic volumes matched eachother after 10-15mins and Jonathan really seemed to gel with you and have some fun interactions. Congrats man.

Mad respect for Jonathan and his team. People are already giving the game high praises while just being given a sneak peak. If any GGG dev or worker ends up reading this comment, just know that the hard work and crunch you are doing is paying off in what's building up to be a game as legendary as D2 was in it's time.

Great Interview Tri. Went really well. No Zana though :'(

I actually enjoyed the interview rather than trying to just chore through it to know more about the game. Awesome interview.

Congrats!!!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉

Nice interview!

Great interview, awesome questoins :). Thx Tri

let the man speak!

Fantastic coverage and questions, really covered a lot of the community's burning questions! Great job man 💪

cool interview

Awesome interview!

Sick work :) I didn't even notice any of the other feedback various people were giving because in my own mind I was echoing your yeahs and stuff so it just sounded normal to me. It sounded like you were an experienced journalist with well prepared questions to my mind, and the fact that you care enough about the subject to have excitement about it is more endearing than it is annoying :)

Would love a condensed version with all the new info you got from this interview!

letsss gooo triiii ! thanks mr jonathan

I'm almost finished with the interview (currently at 1:18:51) and I get why people would point out the amount of interjections with "yes, ok, yeah, ofc, etc" but it's not THAT bad. Everyone who spent decent time watching your videos knows how enthusiastic you can be. So it's fair criticism for interviews and such, but nothing as big as some made it out to be. It's my point of view so I get that others may find it annoying while I personally don't. I just see a passionate content creator with a passionate developer. (btw Jonathan was also interjecting a bit too much when you were delivering your questions, which makes sense since he's really a passionate talker about poe/poe2 lol 😂)

Jonathan seemed really relaxed and comfortable with your communication. I think your joy about the game as well as just the enthusiasm you conveyed went partly over to him. Good one my dude.

GOOD SHIT MAN!

Tri I focused on work all day Now it's time to play And you drop two hours from LA Chef's Kiss

Good Job Tri, definitely hard work was worth it thru those months. You got to have a interview with Johnatan, which maybe you even didnt think from beginning of your YT carrier. Good to see, how you grow and evolve during a time. Wish you all the best and you are my inspiration of: "you should follow your dreams, if you love it". Thanks you for all of your positivity.

I just love how GGG does things when it comes to game design. One other F2P game that I was into for quite some time is Warframe. The main takeaway that I had comparing the two was, that GGG build their game horizontally, while DE does it vertically. What I mean by it, is that in PoE in terms of activities it's an open field, and it all is available rather quickly, so you can go wherever and do whatever, not to mention that you can modify your gameplay experience with little to no drawbacks. In Warframe, on the other hand, it's really quite different. There I feel like I have to scale a tower of content that's piled on top of each other. If I wanted to experience what DE are releasing now, I'd have to go through weeks upon weeks of mindless grinding to get there, just because I took a long break from the game. And honestly, I don't have the time, nor desire to do that. Sure, I could just pay to, an extent, skip it, but to me that's just bad game design, intentionally or otherwise. Sometimes I think that DE lost their minds or something, with all the grinding they invite you to partake in. In the end I got so pissed that latest content is basically out of my reach, and will be for quite a while, that I just quit (I think this time for good). With PoE it's just nice, you can hop in and out whenever, and you're in the same place everyone else is, broadly speaking. There isn't anything that's unavailable because you haven't cleared a crap ton of prerequisite and grinded a buttload of materials. How far players wanna go in certain activities, how much they wanna challenge themselves, is their own personal preference, but every activity is available for everyone.

Great interview! Thank you!! I really think the timeline they plan is completely out of wack - We miss currently: - Base Skill tree - All classes - All ascendencies - Gems - Overall gem & skill balance - UI (not that this is a problem but it's currently a copy/paste, it would be refreshing to have a better UI) - Tutorials - Endgame and probably more! all of this in a year? I would realistically give it probably 2+ years easily

In regards of enemies pushing the player or cancelling the player's attack i think a good solution to that not being done all the time but still be in the game is a stagger bar. When it fills you get knocked, just like a boss would

I love that he says that they look at themselves Magic the Gathering or something. That kind of openness in the design is important.

The interview is definitely watchable, I think if Jonathans dBs were a little bit higher it would be better, your skills as an interviewer will only get better and better as time goes on, I want more from you, you get to points which I find important which everyone else doesn't

Has the question about XP-penalty for dying in POE2 ever been asked and answered in any interview?

Hey there Tri and first of all thank you very much for this interview with Jonathan! Your questions were really thoughtful and your interaction with the community around PoE is as valuable, as the interaction of GGG with content creators like you. It really shows, how important the parts are to one another. We are as important to you, as you are for GGG and vice versa. So, thank you again, keep up the good and dedicated work and stay healthy!

Where can I find PoE 2 screenshots? Concept arts is available that was in 2021. Not all also. What about Arcane Archer?

Gave this interview a shot despite not knowing much about you, and I was extremely impressed by your knowledge, enthusiasm and interviewing skills! This led to checking out your channel... which was the opposite experience. There may be equally great content there, but it's obfuscated by endless derivative titles that don't describe the true topic of the video, leaving no desire to click any of them.

huge!

Yes, this I was waiting for regarding PoE II :-) To be honest, I watched other channels about PoE II, howerver still... :-)

In diablo 2 you have items you can buy in the shop which can help you alot - such as high life armour, faster hit recovery. I think high single affix shop purchases are great.

Blight is fun for like 2 hours for me but it's biggest problem is towers turning off at a screen and a half. It's very limiting especially when it's supposed to be a tower defense.

omg it finally happened

Anyone know if those who purchased the big supporter pack will get Alpha access in June? I know the Beta is delayed, but not the Aplha it seems.

the best interview so far

They should add a master gemcutter NPC, that explain the skills. The problem with this is that it would cost a lot more money because new skill additions would need these videos as well. Text to speech could be an interesting solution to explore.

I think some thought should be put into when is going into town to fill up on potions annoying, and when is it too much? I think the annoying part is when you have to go back to town for refreshment was after something "trivial" If it was like during some big bad boss, it's okay, but if you're just trying to progress regular trash combat, it's weird When is it too much...? Probably a good rate would be maybe every 30 minutes? Maybe Flasks should get WAYY more charges, so that when you run around you slowly deplete them, and whenever you decide to come back to town, it can be like an actual trip to town, not just going to the well, but it becomes a moment where you wanna get everything done all at once. Flask well -> talking to NPC -> selling -> Shopping -> maybe even get a town rested buff or so?

Hope they make uniques that change how skills work like transfigured gems. And make some of them unique powers copy to rare items like d4

lol im so glad you fixed the sound, i was like do i have to listen to the full thing like this ? xD *only like 12min in: i love the idea of the rolls from unid items, after playing last epoch for like 2 weeks i was really didding the option to show only for example exalted (t6) mods, or even only show items that rolled t7 mods, or like at least TWO t6 mods etc. while i dont think everything should always drop identifyd like in last epch but a way to at least sort most of the trash rares out is really really needed in poe (specially poe1 i hope somehting like this comes for poe 1 too) like imagine you could only show rares with at least one t1 roll and two tier 2 rolls or somehting like that. there should never be a point in poe where u dont even loot at rares anymore, not even the high ilvl / good bases, like for the most part u might wanna pick up some good bases and just keep the base for crafting or u just sell the base but the item itself is trash like 99.5% of the time once your gear starts getting kinda decent its not worth to pick up any rare items if its not something crazy like best es base / 100%base es roll / highest item lvl possible or somehting like that. *50min in: i think the instant buyout stuff has huge risks going with it, like ppl could create bots/scripts that instantly buyout stuff that has been listed for like a wrong price. poe always had this "thing" idk how to call it, but if you price somehting and u get like 20 wispers once you listed it almost any poe player will know or eventually learn that this item was waaay underpriced and will doublecheck what its really worth. i will never forget when it happend to me when i was a total noob, i found a wand with alot of physical damge on it and randomly priced it for 50c or some shit because it didnt seem that good to me, got like 1-2 wispers almost instantly, sold it because 50c was alot for me back then and like than i prolly got like 10 more wispers and started to think hmmm... was this too cheap ??? asked my friend and he was like duuuude this was and 50ex wand or somehting like that, it had crazy high phys damage on it and you could still craft attack speed on it, and it was already almost as good as all the suuuper expensives ones without it. so tldr ppl gonna write scripts, create bots to snipe very specific things that can be online 24/7 instantly buying these things the moment your able to buy them. this could get abused like crazy, like not alot of ppl talk about this but poe1 has bots and scripts too, like literally tradebots that just buy/sell currency for small profit 24/7. the only thing thats preventing those trade bots/chaos farm bots to go crazy is how trade works atm. soo yeah im kinda scared.

It is obvious, that both of guys love the game :-)

Leaving accendecies off leads to discovery which is good

The "Real choices in the passive tree" is exactly my biggest problem with diablo 4 right now and why i love and prefer path of exile. To understand just open a d4 build planner, choose sorcerer and then filter for "burn".. D4 has a lot of obvious choices and when i played the game i didnt feel like choosing at all. It was more like choosing a build but i had very little room to diverge from it. So in short, yes please give us choices. Multiple good ones if possible and the bad choices should be great choices for different builds. Thats the balancing act but having real choices is a good thing.

Same as many people : very high quality info/preparation but painful "yeah/right/Okay".

nice

Love the interview but 100% agreed with feedback, allow the interviewee finish their sentence/thought without having to (yea, wow, oh, ok!) I know you're excited I would be to. But the questions were absolutely great, allow the man to cook :D.

Awesome job on the interview but agree with the constructive criticism given. I think my biggest takeaway from all of the interviews is POE2 is definitely not going to be released until 2026 or later. Would be interesting to know how many times and on how many different areas Jonathan states 'we still have a lot of work to do' because it seems like most of the game is still in that state. Not a criticism just an observation.