EVE General Discussion

Can you put any ones minds at rest CCP. What with all the recent and very public departures, the closure of WOD and today's Guardian article and announcement of 50 redundancies ( http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/05/world-of-darkness-the-inside-story-mmo-ccp-white-wolf and http://www.polygon.com/2014/6/5/5782190/ccp-iceland-layoffs-eve-online ) its understandable that people would start to get worried about the state of CCP and the future of the Game we all love so much.

I really hope for the best for CCP and EVE but this kind of news does make me worry.

Worried? Seriously?

EVE is a game. If CCP goes under, I'll just go play something else.

Thanks a bunch, i tend to gloss over stickies which i guess kind of misses the point.

Its all well and good saying that but for a large group of people this has been a hobby and a way of keeping up a social circle for 10 years. Thats a large chunk of any ones life and the effect of that dis-appearing would be very real.

After my 3rd marriage I've come to accept that nothing is forever...except death and taxes. And Im not too sure about death.

Careful where you place your heart.

They had something like this? What did they do in CCP?

Posting again before thread lock

Eve is dying. It's been dying for the past 10 years, just like I've been dying for the past 22.

Im not worried at all but GOD DAMN IM ONLY HALFWAY THROUGH AND ITS AN AWESOME READ!

"One of the key new additions was the “Captains Quarters”, which allowed your avatar to leave their craft and wander around a limited section of the game’s space stations. The system was underpinned by CCP’s Carbon framework, a technology designed to allow the sharing of code between games; this would facilitate the transfer of WoD’s character movement technology to the Eve project.

But development of Incarna was not going smoothly. “As little as a few weeks out from launch, the lead designers were still trying to add features to the Captain’s Quarters,” says Blood. “But without the time or resources to properly do so, many things were left half-delivered, to be iterated upon later – which never happened. CCP has an extensive track record of promising to return to features and never doing so. There was little discipline to the process.”

Worst of all, according to Blood, the entire point of the expansion (walking around space stations) was let down by the Reykjavic office’s art team; it took them nearly the entire development time to create one faction’s Captains Quarters. Yet again, the WoD team was asked to cross over in order to bail out an Eve expansion.

Our sources say it took them a fraction of the time to create the one room station interiors for the other three factions. Blood recalls the friction between the teams on this point. “While it certainly vindicated the WoD artists in terms of work ethic, I remember it was a sore point between the offices that the much vaunted Icelandic crew had been so demonstrably shown up.”