Ah, WinBlows... a clever strike at their evil greedy hearts! Surely it will take months for them to recover from that blow.
You might be interested to know the title of my woefully unpublished "Star Trek" novella, "Gates of Borg". From my parents' home in Reykjavík, I stab at thee!!!
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/7/22/
Speaking as a native Icelander, this is lovely news for us here. Mainly for the reason that it would pump investment into our cables. Two weeks ago, the whole nations bandwidth to the rest of the world was cut by 3/4, because of some Scottish farmer accidentally hitting the cable while digging holes for his new fence (not kidding). We seriously need better connection to the rest of the world here!
I used to play this game some moons ago and I got a taste of EVE politics, and boy do people take it seriously! I spent many night playing a so-called diplomat in between internal alliance matters that were trivial. My point: people take this game (too) seriously!
Now, I've heard about the flame spewing dragon that is goonfleet and many men have lost their dignity in mighty flamewars against that group in the past, but it still strikes me as odd that goonfleet should attack the company and as such the game itself as well. But I guess that is the nature of flamers. One could argue that the EVE community has developed anti-establishment movement against the game and CCP.
But the CCP team is a great bunch that are doing quiet a good job of keeping in touch with the community. They allow them self to play the game to get a feeling how it is to be a player, they take a part of the community discussion and try to be "one of them". I guess that their greatest and weakest point.
As for their PR move to claim a grand conspiracy of "carefully constructed and well-timed social engineering effort", it must go down in the history books as the worst PR move of them all!
Just remember, its just a friggin game...
I was at the EVE fanfest in "Reychavik" when the announcement was made and a silence came over the crowd when we saw the CCP logo next to WW's logo on the big screen.
Much of the backstory and ongoing events in EVE are created by the fanbase (in game roleplayers and volunteer event managers) so the fact that WW will now be in charge of EVE's story makes some players sceptical. But the fact that we will see more EVE novellas and stuff is a big plus (I'm already saving up for a miniature Tempest).
When asked how soon we would see a World of Darkness game, Hilmar Péturson said at the fanfest that EVE was in pre-production for about 3 years and he expected the same thing about WoD (although EVE had some financial problems).
He also said that CCP and WW had been working together for over a year already and had kept this a tight secret, claiming later on EVETV (http://www.eve-online.com/evetv/), a little drunk, that it must be some kind of world record to keep this relationship a secret for a year with over 500 employees. Although I doubt that Guinness will show that fact any interest it is true that no EVE player (nor some of the staff) had any idea about this merge.
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Ah, WinBlows... a clever strike at their evil greedy hearts! Surely it will take months for them to recover from that blow. You might be interested to know the title of my woefully unpublished "Star Trek" novella, "Gates of Borg". From my parents' home in Reykjavík, I stab at thee!!! http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/7/22/
Speaking as a native Icelander, this is lovely news for us here. Mainly for the reason that it would pump investment into our cables. Two weeks ago, the whole nations bandwidth to the rest of the world was cut by 3/4, because of some Scottish farmer accidentally hitting the cable while digging holes for his new fence (not kidding). We seriously need better connection to the rest of the world here!
I used to play this game some moons ago and I got a taste of EVE politics, and boy do people take it seriously! I spent many night playing a so-called diplomat in between internal alliance matters that were trivial. My point: people take this game (too) seriously! Now, I've heard about the flame spewing dragon that is goonfleet and many men have lost their dignity in mighty flamewars against that group in the past, but it still strikes me as odd that goonfleet should attack the company and as such the game itself as well. But I guess that is the nature of flamers. One could argue that the EVE community has developed anti-establishment movement against the game and CCP. But the CCP team is a great bunch that are doing quiet a good job of keeping in touch with the community. They allow them self to play the game to get a feeling how it is to be a player, they take a part of the community discussion and try to be "one of them". I guess that their greatest and weakest point. As for their PR move to claim a grand conspiracy of "carefully constructed and well-timed social engineering effort", it must go down in the history books as the worst PR move of them all! Just remember, its just a friggin game...
I was at the EVE fanfest in "Reychavik" when the announcement was made and a silence came over the crowd when we saw the CCP logo next to WW's logo on the big screen. Much of the backstory and ongoing events in EVE are created by the fanbase (in game roleplayers and volunteer event managers) so the fact that WW will now be in charge of EVE's story makes some players sceptical. But the fact that we will see more EVE novellas and stuff is a big plus (I'm already saving up for a miniature Tempest). When asked how soon we would see a World of Darkness game, Hilmar Péturson said at the fanfest that EVE was in pre-production for about 3 years and he expected the same thing about WoD (although EVE had some financial problems). He also said that CCP and WW had been working together for over a year already and had kept this a tight secret, claiming later on EVETV (http://www.eve-online.com/evetv/), a little drunk, that it must be some kind of world record to keep this relationship a secret for a year with over 500 employees. Although I doubt that Guinness will show that fact any interest it is true that no EVE player (nor some of the staff) had any idea about this merge.