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.
What 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 ^^
Note: The interview was done when CnCSaga.de and CnCHQ.de/HQBoard.net were separate pages, each with their own forums. The interview was conducted by CnCSaga.de at the time.
