EVE General Discussion

Now that CCP has changed around its priorities, is there any chance that they will consider making just a few important adjustments/changes to the game that will support eveonline to be part of eSports, live broadcasting and professional gaming? Eve is a great sci-fi game, perfect for competitive gaming, I think the Alliance Tournaments prove just how phenomenal they are.

I believe this is worth considering because its basically free advertisement and free exposure.

thoughts?

arenas of course

If you were actually interested in running esports events in EVE you could do it already. The only major limiting factor is the inability of entire fleets to suddenly go red to eachother all at once.

This sounds pretty fabulous at first blush. Unfortunately, it's crafting another game from the makings of EVE. It's taking EVE ships, categorizing them such as in boxing - heavy, middle, welter weights, creating a ring (arena) and having a slug-fest. I can see how the prospect might be tantalizing for someone into that kind of thing. One might consider, though, that the EVE environment is attractive to people who aren't into that kind of thing.

I ran a competitive clan in Battlefield 2 for three years. Our competitions, however, were not organized, refereed or managed by EA Games. Team Warfare League (TWL) and The Cyber Athletic League (CAL) put the manpower and elbow grease into creating a tiered, progressive and even professional tournament structure. What allowed them to do that was the independent server quality of the Battlefield series. The key point here is EA Games had little to nothing to do with it, and wouldn't have bothered with such an enterprise as it has nothing to do with the business they're in.

What you propose would involve CCP creating a server for the sole purpose of said competition. Then (after that expense), they would have to pay personnel to devise, engineer, operate, manage and referee the competitions. On top of that, what monetary winnings are available in clan competition with BF2 (for instance) is raised from advertisers. Your idea would then lead to the commercialization of the EVE sandbox to fund your dream.

Considering CCP just laid-off a considerable amount of people, I find it unrealistic to expect them to hire an equivalent amount of people to run what is obviously an expensive, non-profit enterprise to satisfy the desires of someone who's randomly come along and once again (as is the habit of many a genius gamer) suddenly thought of a brilliant idea to make the game "better."

I hasten to add, CCP is not searching for another direction. They aren't in limbo wondering what to do next. If you're trying to interpret the results of the recent uproar, that had to do with trying to do too much at once, not having run out of ideas. However, your idea has merit. It would be interesting to see such a game. I'd like to see the one you have in mind when it's released, but I suspect that will never happen as your idea is for someone else to do something for you, not for you to see something come into being...if you catch my drift.

Okay. Who's stopping you? Albeit. If you throw-down somewhere and have your friendly joust, someone might come along and **** on your party. But, that's EVE, the home of the sociopath. Such badasses as yourself should find it no problem to arrange for your party's security. As for prize money? You have a wallet, don't you?

sure yeah, i have a wallet.
I find your argument of 'why dont you do it already' a little silly, because as i've already stated eve is lacking certain key things in order to be able to compete with other games in the world of esports.

not true my friend, its already been done successfully, look at alliance tournaments.

Its funny how during the alliance tournaments, because eve was lacking 'more statistics' the commentators were struggling to have relevant things to say. I'de say that a good UI and nice statistics is the key to getting the whole esports thing started.

If arenas existed in eve, pvp would move from the actual world to the arenas for "goodfights". While good fights are good as such, the arenas would cause the world to feel empty. You know what I mean if you compare the orignal world of warcraft to the expansions. All you will find in the actual world will be ISK-makers such as ratters, plexers, miners. Do you really want a lobby and a matchmaking system in this game?


Positive:
- goodfites

Negative:
- No sandbox, the game becomes a sandbox with rules, think streetfight where you can use bricks and baseball-bats vs boxing/mma
- Alot of whine concerning balance (Example: We cannot break eachothers tank because of guardians, nerf nerf nerf)
- Empty world
- Less drama

TLDR:
Go play sc2 or wow

lol you are quick to say I should go play another game, but you dont even bother to have a proper discussion first. For one, you cant be right about people wanting to drop the sandbox for the professional gaming arenas.
One simple reason is because how will they support their careers in the arena? and if you think about it, if you are looking to make nice money you go into 0.0 and once you are there people will want to fight you for that ground... so you cant avoid the sandbox even if you are very dedicated to make money for your esport career.