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Scrap WoD, DUST 514. Make EVE TV series.
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Florestan Bronstein
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#21 - 2011-10-14 08:04:46 UTC
Someone tell Uwe Boll about this thread.
Arakazzi
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#22 - 2011-10-14 08:30:07 UTC
Dream on. Besides, I don't think EVE would make a good TV series.
Tenchi Sal
White Knights of Equestria
#23 - 2011-10-14 10:42:49 UTC
its been done already... star trek... babylon 5.. battle star galactica....

what ccp should do is focus on breaking down the giant power blocks... what dust player is gonna play if theres no 0.0 sov fighting?
David Grogan
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#24 - 2011-10-14 12:33:20 UTC
Herping yourDerp wrote:
dust can be fine if ported to 360, and no not PC.



CCP would love to port to 360 but microsoft has a stupid policy of making game vendors charge full price for expansions which goes against CCP's policy of free expansions.

If you want Eve Online to run on 360 campaign to microsoft about changing their silly policy.

Everytime you buy something that says "made in china" you are helping the rising unemployment in your own country unless you are from china, Buy locally produced goods and help create more jobs.
March rabbit
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#25 - 2011-10-14 12:46:04 UTC
Does anybody watch TV-series at all???? I though it is all in deep dark past.... Shocked

The Mittani: "the inappropriate drunked joke"
Guy Grand
Doomheim
#26 - 2011-10-14 13:03:23 UTC
It would have to be on HBO. If it wasn't it would be too vanilla and not have the right tone.

I also like boobies.
Morganta
The Greater Goon
#27 - 2011-10-14 13:18:09 UTC
Renan Ruivo wrote:
Know something that will bring you to over one million subscribers? EVE TV series. Same production values of Battlestar Galactica.

Story? One or two years before, and leading to events in Empyrean Age. You make people care about your universe and deliver the Empyrean Age content in the final season, you get a blockbuster TV series. Empyrean Age is THAT good.


You know i'm right, Hilmar. Hit the switch.


god I hope its not the same production values

for the record I HATE JERKY HANDHELD SHOTS, THEY MAKE ME WANT TO VOMIT!!!

other than that BSG was an ok remake of a not so ok show
but whoever was the DP on the space shots should be forced to watch the view while riding in a paint can shaker

damn college students...
Nandy Cocytus
Doomheim
#28 - 2011-10-14 13:38:14 UTC
Morganta wrote:
Renan Ruivo wrote:
Know something that will bring you to over one million subscribers? EVE TV series. Same production values of Battlestar Galactica.

Story? One or two years before, and leading to events in Empyrean Age. You make people care about your universe and deliver the Empyrean Age content in the final season, you get a blockbuster TV series. Empyrean Age is THAT good.


You know i'm right, Hilmar. Hit the switch.


god I hope its not the same production values

for the record I HATE JERKY HANDHELD SHOTS, THEY MAKE ME WANT TO VOMIT!!!

other than that BSG was an ok remake of a not so ok show
but whoever was the DP on the space shots should be forced to watch the view while riding in a paint can shaker

damn college students...



I never understood why people are so against a shaking camera. It's designed to make you feel like you are there, not looking through the fourth wall. If you set a camera to record, and go for a brisk walk while recording, you would, without even trying, have produced a shaky-cam shot. Though, while I'm not completely against it, the application of the technique for the space shots was a bit confusing. Still a great show. They could have taken a cue from Farscape. Instead of hardcore clothes-dryer action, make it a slow roll. Cause it's basically like being on a boat. A space-boat.

Anyway, @Guy Grand: good call with HBO. You are definitely right.

@Andski: I don't think being on grid with "600+ dudes" qualifies as being EVERYTHING that happens in EVE. Even for the most alliance oriented player. You, like the most vocal whiners on these forums, inflate every tiny flaw you see as to make it game breaking. In other words: weaksauce.

So it goes.
Akirei Scytale
Okami Syndicate
#29 - 2011-10-14 16:20:27 UTC
Renan Ruivo wrote:
Akirei Scytale wrote:
i don't think you fully understand just what you're talking about entails.


Making a pilot, showing to a studio who will sponsor it, and working on 10 to 12 episodes for a tentative mini-series with 24 episodes? Then picking up and going forward with it if it proves successfull? Look around you, sci-fi series are beginning to pick up steam again.

You show it like it is to the right people, and they are going to be begging to CCP to let them make a TV series.


its a project as big if not bigger than creating EVE itself, and would cost far more money than EVE brings in. CCP is also not a director's studio, it is a game studio. EVE has a very, very tiny fanbase relative to pretty much any TV show's subject, etc etc. What you are asking for is not only impossible, but it would be a dumb move financially and a surefire way to lose millions. All for nothing of value.
Kumq uat
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#30 - 2011-10-14 16:25:19 UTC
I love these people who think scrapping Dust and WoD is a realistic expectation.

They have poured a ton of money into these games in an effort to diversify their money streams. They are trying to GROW as a gaming company. You do that by making new titles and you put them on different platforms to maximize your potential customers.

I mean seriously, do any of you have business sense? I am hardly a CCP apologist but FFS you people sure think it would just be so easy to throw the switch and lose all of the capital that has been placed in building these games for something entirely different.

Ugh, you people fill my find full of ****.
Famble
Three's a Crowd
#31 - 2011-10-14 16:35:00 UTC
If they put Christopher Walkin in it I'll watch it. It's that simple.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9KQQrNDawM

Also what the guy above me said about HBO and boobies. I like boobies.

If anyone ever looks at you and says,_ "Hold my beer, watch this,"_  you're probably going to want to pay attention.
Esagila
#32 - 2011-10-14 17:10:41 UTC
The only model of comparison that I can see is BSG online = dedicated TV fanbase goes and plays MMO.

HOWEVER, the MMO is browser based and so frakking easy in relation to EVE. Attracting the kind of crowd you’re wanting with a TV series is I think a little impossible due to the mentality of your typical consumer and the mechanics of the game.

I too wish that CPP’s resources would go to something a little more productive in EVE, however, spending tons on glorified advertising or dumbing down the game to appeal to a larger crowd is the right direction to take either.
Hans Jagerblitzen
Ice Fire Warriors
#33 - 2011-10-14 17:39:15 UTC
Instead of a TV series - I'd like to see:

"Clear Skies" - Directed by Peter Jackson, special effects by WETA Digital.

Starring:

George Clooney as John Rourke
Christopher Walken as "Mr. Smith"
Colin Farrell as Charlie Fodder
Dean Stockwell as Solomon Burke
Kate Winslet as Sascha Culhane

C'mon. You know this would be 3pic. Imagine seeing your Eve Ships in fully rendered HD glory on the big screen!!


As for scrapping the other projects, that's kind of ridiculous at this point. The company has amassed a huge amount of code and poured a huge amount of their profits into amassing such code. A "pullout" now wouldn't save them any money any more than a "pullout" saves you from knocking up your girlfriend. Let the company make what creative projects they want to make, its their money, they earned it.

CPM0 Chairman / CSM7 Vice Secretary
Raid'En
#34 - 2011-10-14 17:50:40 UTC
the story of a caspuleer conquering the world could be funny, and at the same time it would be advertisement for eve :P
Renan Ruivo
Forcas armadas
Brave Collective
#35 - 2011-10-14 18:35:43 UTC
Akirei Scytale wrote:
Renan Ruivo wrote:
Akirei Scytale wrote:
i don't think you fully understand just what you're talking about entails.


Making a pilot, showing to a studio who will sponsor it, and working on 10 to 12 episodes for a tentative mini-series with 24 episodes? Then picking up and going forward with it if it proves successfull? Look around you, sci-fi series are beginning to pick up steam again.

You show it like it is to the right people, and they are going to be begging to CCP to let them make a TV series.


its a project as big if not bigger than creating EVE itself, and would cost far more money than EVE brings in. CCP is also not a director's studio, it is a game studio. EVE has a very, very tiny fanbase relative to pretty much any TV show's subject, etc etc. What you are asking for is not only impossible, but it would be a dumb move financially and a surefire way to lose millions. All for nothing of value.


Yes, it costs money. But that money would not necessarely come from CCP's pockets.

Look at that Mortal Kombat pilot trailer that had michael jay white in it. The guy behind the production of the trailer spent his own money in making it and it was not "million". Now he peeked a studio's interest enough so that they are going to make a full movie. Do you think that money will come from the director's pocket?

And besides, because you think it has nothing of value it does not mean thats a fact, it only means that if it were to become reality you would not watch it (which i doubt)

And unless you ask WWE Studios to run the project, its not going to lose millions because we already have a good story and a good storywriter to begin with.

The world is a community of idiots doing a series of things until it explodes and we all die.
Hans Jagerblitzen
Ice Fire Warriors
#36 - 2011-10-14 19:06:55 UTC
Renan Ruivo wrote:

Yes, it costs money. But that money would not necessarely come from CCP's pockets.


Than why the need to hate on Dust or WoD? Roll

CPM0 Chairman / CSM7 Vice Secretary
Renan Ruivo
Forcas armadas
Brave Collective
#37 - 2011-10-14 19:47:02 UTC
Hans Jagerblitzen wrote:
Renan Ruivo wrote:

Yes, it costs money. But that money would not necessarely come from CCP's pockets.


Than why the need to hate on Dust or WoD? Roll


It was a joke =) That i explained one page ago.

Basically if Dust and WoD get launched, and CCP gets investors for a EVE series, then one day we might have WoD players and dusties asking for a tv series too, and THOSE series would compete with EVE series for resources taking us all back to where we are now.

The world is a community of idiots doing a series of things until it explodes and we all die.
Cipher Jones
The Thomas Edwards Taco Tuesday All Stars
#38 - 2011-10-14 19:48:42 UTC
Renan Ruivo wrote:
Know something that will bring you to over one million subscribers? EVE TV series. Same production values of Battlestar Galactica.

Story? One or two years before, and leading to events in Empyrean Age. You make people care about your universe and deliver the Empyrean Age content in the final season, you get a blockbuster TV series. Empyrean Age is THAT good.


You know i'm right, Hilmar. Hit the switch.


This is why you don't let the inmates run the asylum.

internet spaceships

are serious business sir.

and don't forget it
The Apostle
Doomheim
#39 - 2011-10-14 20:50:19 UTC
Andski wrote:
The Apostle wrote:
Andski wrote:
ideally the TV series should be a slideshow, just like pretty much everything that happens in game

New video card?


clearly you've never been on grid with 600+ dudes

No. About 400 has been my max. It was a G##ns op too....

But yeah, it was a throw away line Smile

[i]Take an aspirin. If pain persists consult your local priest. WTB: An Austrian kangaroo![/i]
Esan Vartesa
Samarkand Financial
#40 - 2011-10-14 22:01:25 UTC
No

Just... no.

This is how you kill franchises.
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