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Can't Blame CCP because Microsoft did it first.
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Tom Gerard
Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
#1 - 2012-07-19 01:43:38 UTC
Microsoft once tried to turn a simple point and click interface into a personal environment... it failed horribly.

They called it Microsoft BoB... decades later... CCP also received a poor response to a nearly identical product... some ideas are just bad =P

http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/3428/msdiditfirst.jpg

Now with 100% less Troll.
Sam Ruger
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#2 - 2012-07-19 01:45:58 UTC
I had a computer that actually came with M$ Bob on it.
Shameless Avenger
Can Preachers of Kador
#3 - 2012-07-19 01:46:14 UTC
LOL... good find.

"This is the Ninja. He will scan you down; he will salvage your wrecks and there shall be no aggro"
James Amril-Kesh
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#4 - 2012-07-19 01:47:34 UTC
Meh, EVE doesn't force you to use that interface though... thankfully. It's there if you want it. I'm sure there are some who like it.

Enjoying the rain today? ;)
Goremageddon Box
Guerrilla Flotilla
#5 - 2012-07-19 01:50:59 UTC
Ewww
D3F4ULT
#6 - 2012-07-19 02:00:54 UTC
James Amril-Kesh wrote:
Meh, EVE doesn't force you to use that interface though... thankfully. It's there if you want it. I'm sure there are some who like it.


IT DID. But then we shot a statue.

and some how that changed something. lol

"Bow down before the one you serve, you're going to get what you deserve"
James Amril-Kesh
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#7 - 2012-07-19 02:05:40 UTC
D3F4ULT wrote:
James Amril-Kesh wrote:
Meh, EVE doesn't force you to use that interface though... thankfully. It's there if you want it. I'm sure there are some who like it.


IT DID. But then we shot a statue.

and some how that changed something. lol

You could still pull up the regular interface, all that really changed was you can now spin your ship again instead of looking at a picture of a door.

Enjoying the rain today? ;)
Fiona Tsero
Doomheim
#8 - 2012-07-19 02:47:21 UTC
James Amril-Kesh wrote:
D3F4ULT wrote:
James Amril-Kesh wrote:
Meh, EVE doesn't force you to use that interface though... thankfully. It's there if you want it. I'm sure there are some who like it.


IT DID. But then we shot a statue.

and some how that changed something. lol

You could still pull up the regular interface, all that really changed was you can now spin your ship again instead of looking at a picture of a door.


THE DOOR
Suddenly Forums ForumKings
Doomheim
#9 - 2012-07-19 02:51:00 UTC
I don't think BoB is simple enough tbh.
Degren
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#10 - 2012-07-19 05:10:01 UTC
Mother.

*******.

Tom.

Gerard.

PS, I had no idea that existed. So good.

Hello, hello again.
Charlie Jacobson
#11 - 2012-07-19 05:39:54 UTC
Suddenly Forums ForumKings wrote:
I don't think BoB is simple enough tbh.


Indeed. The graphics are too detailed and cluttered, making it hard to see where stuff is.

I support James 315 and the New Order of Highsec
Caitlyn Tufy
Perkone
Caldari State
#12 - 2012-07-19 06:03:00 UTC  |  Edited by: Caitlyn Tufy
Charlie Jacobson wrote:
Suddenly Forums ForumKings wrote:
I don't think BoB is simple enough tbh.


Indeed. The graphics are too detailed and cluttered, making it hard to see where stuff is.


Oh, np, M$ is working on BoB mk.II: BoB mk.IIBig smile
DarkAegix
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#13 - 2012-07-19 06:23:18 UTC
Sam Ruger wrote:
M$

Caitlyn Tufy wrote:
M$

Watch out everyone, we have some badasses here.

Using a dollar sign to have your own little cry about Microsoft is so 1990s.
Taurich Vorsel
#14 - 2012-07-19 07:13:57 UTC
DarkAegix wrote:
Sam Ruger wrote:
M$

Caitlyn Tufy wrote:
M$

Watch out everyone, we have some badasses here.

Using a dollar sign to have your own little cry about Microsoft is so 1990s.

Referring to microsoft as M$ these days is like referring to Apple as that unique little garage company that makes candy coloured computers

Or Coca-Cola as an up-and-comer in the beverage industry

Copine Callmeknau disappeared one day now we are left with Taurich Vorsel AKA BIZARRO COPE!
Caitlyn Tufy
Perkone
Caldari State
#15 - 2012-07-19 07:16:12 UTC
Oh look, Sam, we riled the ma$$e$ >:)
Tuireann Naari
Doomheim
#16 - 2012-07-19 07:17:19 UTC
Caitlyn Tufy wrote:
Oh look, Sam, we riled the ma$$e$ >:)


RABBLERABBLERABBLE
Vera Algaert
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#17 - 2012-07-19 07:22:21 UTC  |  Edited by: Vera Algaert
DarkAegix wrote:
Sam Ruger wrote:
M$

Caitlyn Tufy wrote:
M$

Watch out everyone, we have some badasses here.

Using a dollar sign to have your own little cry about Microsoft is so 1990s.

crying about crybabies Lol

(I have the sneaky suspicion that M$ originated as some sort of pun on Microsoft BASIC [names of string variables have to end in $ in BASIC and one character variable names like A$, B$, ... were very common], on the other hand people found reasons to call Microsoft greedy ever since the Open Letter - in any case the acronym is much older than the nineties)

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Ptraci
3 R Corporation
#18 - 2012-07-19 07:56:07 UTC
James Amril-Kesh wrote:
Meh, EVE doesn't force you to use that interface though...


ONLY because players kicked and screamed about it until they put the old station environment back in. The first incarna release did not give you the option of not loading the "captain's quarters".
DrSmegma
Smegma United
#19 - 2012-07-19 08:47:41 UTC  |  Edited by: DrSmegma
meh

Eve too complicated? Try Astrum Regatta.
Pak Narhoo
Splinter Foundation
#20 - 2012-07-19 10:18:31 UTC
Fiona Tsero wrote:


THE DOOR


That was an hilarious thread. Lol

I| also think it was the nail for this forum to not allow any more images besides avatars. GDamn I miss the imaginative signature images. Cry
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