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Ask CCP About EVE Online
The week after next, the annual Game Developer's Conference is happening in San Francisco. I'll be there providing coverage on the keynotes, and some of the talks that I think will appeal to the Slashdot sensibility. I've also been digging to see if there's any folks willing to speak with the Slashdot community 'in person'. The fine folks at CCP, makers of the Massively Multiplayer game EVE Online, have kindly agreed to take some time out of their busy conference schedule to answer your questions. So, what do you want to know about the present and future of this fascinating MMOG? One question per comment, please. I'll present your questions to CCP, and pass their answer back once I'm home from the event. Update: 02/22 19:51 GMT by Z : I asked Sharon Howell, the PR rep for CCP, who I might be speaking with at GDC. Unfortunately, they're still nailing down schedules. We'll be talking with one of the following: Hilmar Veigar Petursson, Chief Executive Officer, Magnus Bergsson, Chief Marketing Officer, Nathan Richardsson, Senior Producer, Halldór Fannar Guðjónsson, Chief Technology Officer. One of these members of the top brass will be available to answer your questions.
I've tried the game and I know several people who have tried the game and they share my question - what's the point? How is it "fun" to set your ship to travel to a far-off location that's going to take 8 or 10 hours, of real time, to travel to, making it effectively impossible to play the character during that time? How is that sort of thing supposed to be fun? What am I missing?
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I very much agree that what one of the devs did was very unfortunate.
However, what you say about CCP trying to cover up does not in any way correspond to what I've seen. Every single dev-blog the last month has mentioned this, they are trying to change some of the mechanics to prevent anything like this ever happening again, not to mention that they haven't deleted a single (coherent) post about this on THEIR OWN forums.
Yawn.. Eve has 200 developers and only 1 was found in BOB after the whistleblower hacked bob's serves and ran all the IPs through Arin. And then you complain that he was banned from the game. Maybe the guy shouldn't commit felonies and hack servers. One has to wonder what type of person would commit such a serious crime over a game. Such an unstable person shouldn't be playing games.
Um.
This has been, and is being, addressed in front of the subscribers.
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