Live Events Discussion

Given http://themittani.com/news/new-ccp-moderated-channels-announced (a possibly one-sided article grouping a set of CCP Falcon quotes involving the creation of new RP channels because the current ones have been deemed discriminatory), some upheaval is to be expected...

Most worrysome (to me) is the final statement of the article: "In addition, CCP Falcon did say that live events, like the Battle for Caldari Prime, are on an indefinite hiatus." Is CCP consigning the EVE NPC factions to an unchanging future? Is this yet another disincentive to high-sec life, because nothing ever changes there, and nothing you do there will ever matter to the big picture?

Can we get some sort of official statement about what's going on?

If Live Events are on "indefinite hiatus", then why create new channels to facilitate them now?

Appears counter productive. Meh, [:CCP:]

That would be the purpose of this thread, yes: to solicit an official response from CCP about this topic (and foster discussion about it) in a place where we can all see it (i.e. not an ingame chat channel)

Oh, would you look at that:

Seriously, the amount of time saved by not defending against all rumormongers is better used for something else.

I really dislike that it's now common for companies to use social media sites to communicate with their customers rather than their own official websites. Using social media as a supplement is fine but, there are a lot of people (myself included) who don't use those sites and don't even think to check them for official information. I do, however, check CCP's website and forums on a regular basis.

Silly me, thinking that CCP would use their own property to communicate directly with us customers.

Come on CCP, seriously. How about telling us what's going on here before you post on Twitter and Facebook?

This was a quote that came from thin air. The only related thing I can possibly think of is having been asked about events the size of Caldari Prime being on the cards, and replying that while we have nothing on the scale of Caldari Prime currently in the works, live events are still a thing, and we're planning for upcoming events right now.

On the 12th, I spoke in game regarding the creation of the two new channels after we received a number of complaints that some players were locked out of interacting with live event actors due to the fact we were utilizing player created channels that players had moderator control over.

The result was two channels being created with no player oversight or moderation to ensure that everyone receives their fair share of content without the restriction of that content being in player's hands.

We are of course in a position where we have to allow everyone to have equal access to the content that we put out in live events, and it is of course unfair that people should be locked out of interaction with live events when they occur.

As I said this morning in a single comment made on the article on themittani.com, and can reiterate here, while we have nothing on the scale of Caldari Prime currently in the works, live events are still very much alive, and we're in the planning process for the future right now.

We weren't contacted with regards to clarifying this or commenting on it before the article was published, so unfortunately this lead to a bit of misinformation.

The comment that I dropped on themittani.com in response to the article this morning is as follows:



I also contacted the author of the article this morning with a view to having this corrected, but as of yet I haven't heard back.

I'm suprised i learn about such stuff from TMC insted for example from EVE Forum there are here for a damn reason.

I can live without Caldari Prime size events(most people came there for killmail whoring anyway).

Could a CCP Rep perhaps update https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=179546&find=unread with the new channels? So the 'official' resources links don't point to the old channels (or at least not just to the old channels)

I don't follow the assertion. In this case it was someone putting out a statement that we didn't put out! Why would we make sure that quotes that aren't really quotes are quoted on our own site?