EVE General Discussion

Monument looks great and cool as **** to have our names on it thank you CCP.

When someone gives you a gift you say "Thank You".

Then throw it in the trash or ignore it if you want.

And we don't need to hear about it.

A giant monument outside of their headquarters.



There's no conspiracy. The advertising thing was a sarcastic joke. I was making fun of Malcanis and his ridiculous notion that this monument was about hiring more developers.



I would actually say it points to how unimaginative CCP is.

Look at our expansion packs and how empty they are. Where are the new ideas?

I like that idea.
Less names makes mine easier to find! :D

Also, I am now extra glad that I already got tickets etc. for Fanfest so I can see live!

I’m fully in favour of this. I especially like the fact that the monument is abstract and non-representational. The people calling for it to look like something in-game should consider: this thing will still be standing in 100 years’ time: how often will the ships and stations have been remodelled by then? Hell, even the empires and their various insignia might not last forever. By bearing no visual relationship to anything in the game itself, the monument can stand for it regardless of what changes the devs in the coming decades make (and in fact I see that Hilmar is talking about centuries).

More generally, the objections people are making to the monument on the grounds that the money should have been put towards something useful in-game are exactly the objections that can be made to EvE itself: so much time and money poured into space pixels. These pixels cure no diseases, stop no wars, save no lives. From the utilitarian perspective some people are urging here, we should all unsub and start donating our monthly $15 to charities and NGOs instead. Art, whether in the form of a virtual universe or a monument, is always going to be ‘useless’. Accusing it of that seems to me to be missing the point.

You know what is funny.
How will one ever know their name was removed from the list, unless one travels to Iceland and scans the whole damn statue for their name? Exactly how many people are going to do that?

I just had another tinfoil moment.
This is actually brilliant marketing by CCP.

They can organize pilgrimages throughout the year (Fanfest attendees just won't have enough time / be sober / not hung over enough to make the trip to the harbour) to the newest Eve shrine, and make coin off of that, selling mini-monuments done on pewter, just like they do ships.

It's a nice idea.

If sov mechanics and pos mechanics ever get fixed, I'll build another monument out of solid gold.

I for one appreciate the monument. If there is something I'm disappointed with, it is the complete lack of realistic expectations from some of the players. Yes a timer is meant to create expectations and enthusiasm, but it was a timer buried in the community page, so it was obvious even CCP didn't want to advertise it too much. Unsurprisingly it turned out to be a community related cool thing instead of an item from your personal EVE wish list. If there is a lesson for CCP to (re)learn, it's to manage player expectations, since some people have trouble doing it themselves.

I'd prefer the money used for this to be spent hiring programmers, writers, developers, artists, and re-hiring all of the people that CCP laid off in the past.

Glad some of you are excited for this, but it's hard to feel that way.

A monument to a video game.

hahaha.