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Bwhahahahahahahah, clearly these guys don't know about the monocle.

Did some more digging.



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Thanks for the NYT link, Sader.

I just keep asking myself whether this is really the same CCP that makes the important internet spaceship game with all the pew pew we need/want/love/hate.

I think it's kind of cool. It has nothing to do with space ships blowing each other up, but what a cool way to showcase their technology. Of course, I'm a die hard Project Runway fan, so... : >

Yeah, maybe that's why. :( *pokes his monocle*

It could be great for the game if CCP has intentions to returning focus on fixing the game. But we all know how big a word 'IF' is.



I completely understand the possibility of aggrevating back problems by 'dating' someone, but I never thought I would hear it as a reason to not 'date' someone.




Slade

Personally, I think that's the most amazingly sad thing I've ever seen. If you wanted proof that CCP has lost all perspective, there it is.

I bet that's what "the door" is for. When you open it, new game launches. "CATWALK ONLINE".

Of course CATWALK ONLINE will have to have it's own skill sets. I think all characters will start with PURGING trained to 3 and ANOREXIA trained to 4.

Boy people in the forums are shallow.


Look at this from a game development standpoint. CCP is thinking outside of the box. Rather than limit the fashion and design of clothes limited to internally, or cookie cutter clothes already used by other games, they are asking real designers, real people who know what the **** they are doing to design for them.


Why should CCP limit themselves? Why should they do stuff like everyone else? I think this is a bold and daring move by CCP saying, fashion is no longer for the fashion industry, and gaming is no longer just for the gaming industry. Let both worlds work with each other to provide players with something more.


Besides, they might get couple hundred subs out of it, and who knows.....

We might see a model walk down the runway with a monocle and a guristas tatoo on her arm.

The fashion industry is one comprised of millions of people and billions of dollars, not counting consumers. CCP has struck a gold mine with their technology, and Eve is significantly tiny compared to it both in numbers of people involved and in money. 50k concurrent players? More people that that watch a single runway show in Paris or London.

The fashion industry has been waiting for technology like this to come along. It allows digital representations of fashion without looking cheesy like the sims or cartoonish like warcraft. I believe we are about to see a major change in the fashion industry similar to what happened in hollywood when CGI became available, or to the music industry when anyone could compose or track music on their home pc. You're going to see new designers pop up from nowhere once they have the ability to design on their home pc's and be able to sell their designs online, just like we saw thousands of new writers appear when they became able to to sell their books online without needing a publisher.

I think you are onto something here, for sure. In fact I am going to ask a marketing guy I know about this.

We have seen a lot of things get hyped, or get too much ego put into them by designers and investors only to have them flop - cars are a good example in particular.
3D modelling of cars started out as a big thing. I studied automotive engineering in the 80s and back then, they were still designing cars with large clay models.

But cars are only one thing - fashion certainly another - and interior design too.

The best way to find out if something is going to sell in the real world, might be to put it first in the virtual world. Why make say 10000 shirts that you think will sell, only to end up with 10000 shirts that don't? (eg Seinfeld "Puffy Shirt" episode).

Putting products into virtual worlds to test their popularity might be the wave of the future. Indeed someone at CCP might have hit on a very novel idea.