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EVE Online Developers Help Player Make Fan Movie

Posted by Soulskill on from the somebody-forgot-to-collect-their-souls dept.

Enfors writes "CCP, developers of the sci-fi MMOG EVE Online, continue to impress with their open attitude towards players. In a thread on the EVE forums, an EVE Online player named Dire Lauthris describes difficulties he was having while making a fan movie that would illustrate a portion of EVE Online's background story. To make it 'historically correct,' he contacted CCP, the developers, to check on some facts. Instead of threatening to sue him for infringing on their intellectual property, they ended up inviting him to their offices to set him up with better movie-making software than the one he was using. Also, they had an employee record the narrator voice for his movie. The movie is now finished and available online. Massively is running a related article about storytelling in EVE."

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  1. Nice of the devs to do that but... by blahplusplus · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ... I'd really like it of gamers/customers had the ability to take back rights of abandonware or games and
    properties that are just being sat on, and also have their rights expanded as investors/co-owners in some capacity because right now the indivduals rights are being abused willy nilly.

    I would have loved to see what would have happened to the fan made chrono trigger resurrection if Square had not threatened them:

    http://www.opcoder.com/projects/chrono/