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Fanfest 2013 - Don't turn it onto blizzcon
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Jake Warbird
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#21 - 2012-03-29 09:47:59 UTC
Well that is what we have to accept. CCP aren't a garage band anymore. They are growing and we should be happy about it. Ecstatic even. So if they have to clean up a bit,I say let them. You don't need to get stonedrunkoutta mind to have fun. There should be a happy medium.

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knobber Jobbler
State War Academy
Caldari State
#22 - 2012-03-29 10:20:46 UTC
Its great that they're successful. Just don't give up what made them unique and got them there in the first place. It would be a shame after all that happened over the winter for them to turn into a Sony corporate clone by this time next year.
Merasa Tro
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#23 - 2012-03-29 11:01:39 UTC
I watched bits of the 'stream of doom' (no need to go into whatever was/wasn't said or meant thats for other threads) but wow it made for cringe worthy TV!

I was keen to go to a Fanfest, see the tech, meet the devs, watch some presentations... But having seen the behaviour there it has put me right off.

Eve is famous for being the complicated game, that has an older age group of players, when we meet in real life we should fly THAT flag, not the epeen swinging loud mouth behaviour I watched on the stream.

Certainly the 'corporate' face of something like fan fest should be the PG (12A maybe) rating event. CCP are moving with the big boys now, theyve got to show that face.

But when the cameras are turned off, and it's not the 'official day' then they can let their hair down and the appropriate people can come along and join in the 18+ fun.

We see the flames the big city *b*anker boys got with their hardcore partying, people thought it wasnt appropriate, same goes for sports people, politicians, etc. Ofcourse they all party hard and get up to mischief behind closed doors. But their PR machine has learnt and taught them to do that out-of-sight out-of-mind. The same NEEDS to apply to events such as fanfast.
Cassy Dark
Lunar Dawn
#24 - 2012-03-29 11:37:16 UTC
Oh yes, Sony is very anti alcohol. They showed us that on friday night with all the free blue drinks they where handing out.
Kimiko Tojima
Daughters of Hada
#25 - 2012-03-29 11:40:52 UTC
Surely CCP has to detail all their "mature changes" before I consider going to the next fanfest. Or just watch the lo-res feed.

I don't think that couch moralists and whiteknights will flock to a party on a rock in the middle of the North Atlantic...
knobber Jobbler
State War Academy
Caldari State
#26 - 2012-03-29 12:05:03 UTC
The alliance panel isn't indicative of the entire of fanfest. However look at it like this Michael Bolton did his presentation very much like TEST are in game. You might not like it but thats who they are. Maybe less booze next time.

Merasa Tro wrote:


Certainly the 'corporate' face of something like fan fest should be the PG (12A maybe) rating event. CCP are moving with the big boys now, theyve got to show that face.


Why? You want Fanfest to be Blizzcon? 12 year old's don't have disposable income or are the stable of EVE and never will be. EVE is an adult game and always will be. There is no need to tone it down to cater for children. Its not like any will be present anyway.

Cassy Dark wrote:
Oh yes, Sony is very anti alcohol. They showed us that on friday night with all the free blue drinks they where handing out.


Sours don't count. :P

BTW I've worked for 3 Sony companies, I know exactly what they're like. They'll have a nice party but they'll sanitize everything else for the sake of public image.
Cassy Dark
Lunar Dawn
#27 - 2012-03-29 12:46:59 UTC  |  Edited by: Cassy Dark
knobber Jobbler wrote:


Cassy Dark wrote:
Oh yes, Sony is very anti alcohol. They showed us that on friday night with all the free blue drinks they where handing out.


Sours don't count. :P

BTW I've worked for 3 Sony companies, I know exactly what they're like. They'll have a nice party but they'll sanitize everything else for the sake of public image.


There's nothing sour about vodka and blue curacao being topped up by a splash of Quafe.
But I do agree with you, turning Fanfest into blizzcon would be the worst thing that could happen to EVE. Hopefully a sober fanfest will create bigger protests than incarna.
All that's needed is heavier moderation of the player submitted content. And maybe kicking drunkards off the panels.
knobber Jobbler
State War Academy
Caldari State
#28 - 2012-03-29 13:15:51 UTC
And that I 100% agree with!
Josefius
13th Tribe of Kobol Expeditionary
#29 - 2012-03-29 13:37:41 UTC
knobber Jobbler wrote:
Hey ccp, don't take the fun out of fanfest and sanitize fanfest into a child safe, dull blizzcon like event. Your dev blog sounds like you're going to. It would be a shame if you turned it into those dull and dry events other publishers put on.

Remember who put you where you are ccp, it wasn't marketing directors or creepy rubber faced people at Sony.



Amen brother, if I show up to a Fanfest run by Sony execs. I'm going to get on a plan right back to the States.

You have enemies? Good, that means you stood up for something, sometime in your life.

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Saint Lazarus
Spiorad ag fanaiocht
#30 - 2012-03-29 13:44:36 UTC
/signed


CCP remember how awesome every other Fanfest was, and how awesome THIS one was. One bad joke cant possibily be justification to change it.
masternerdguy
Doomheim
#31 - 2012-03-29 13:53:24 UTC
CCP already caved to peer pressure. Give an inch take a mile sort of thing.

Things are only impossible until they are not.
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