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Worlds Within a World - The EVE Universe Monument

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Jove Death
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#81 - 2014-02-05 15:53:53 UTC
Erm
Ok

How much did CCP actually pay this guy to make this?. I mean anyone can make a dildo, ruler and a tripod and stick it next to each other.

Kinda cool but it doesnt look like anything to do with EvE. I mean shouldnt there be 4 races or 4 bits. Maybe ducktape on the end or somthing?

Quoting "you will die" in EvE is fail Chars dont die in EvE. Unless you have a heart attack eek.
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#82 - 2014-02-05 15:54:01 UTC
It's much more probable for me to go to Reykhavik, than to go to Jita. Ever.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Siobhan MacLeary
Doomheim
#83 - 2014-02-05 15:54:05 UTC
I am so completely and utterly underwhelmed, CCP. Yeah, I guess a monument is cool, but here I was thinking the timer would be counting down to some important change to EVE Online, rather than an announcement about a planned monument.

How does this thing even represent EVE? There's no imagery in the design that resembles anything in EVE, just a blank obelisk flanked by a face-like object. The only thing telling us that this monument represents EVE is that sculptor saying it does. It could just as well represent the struggle of the common man to understand the mindless rapacity of the business world, or something else appropriately art-wonky.

I'm disappointed, CCP, because you made such a big deal over this and it's something that doesn't actually affect a lot of us.

“Point out to me a person who has been harmed by an AFK cloaker and I will point out a person who has no business playing this game.” - CCP Soundwave
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#84 - 2014-02-05 15:55:14 UTC
Pinky Hops wrote:
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
I've never ever heard of a Corporation ever doing something like this for their customers, ever. Much less a gaming company.


You've never heard of management engaging in vanity projects?

Are you joking?

It's not "for the customers."

It's for themselves.

If it was for the customers, I would expect the money and effort to be going into the game itself, because as a customer, that's what I'm actually paying for.


Interesting that you are so impressively psychic that you "just know these things as truth". Good God.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#85 - 2014-02-05 15:56:01 UTC
knobber Jobbler wrote:
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:


I've never ever heard of a Corporation ever doing something like this for their customers, ever. Much less a gaming company.
.


Richard Garriot took my name to space. Beat that.



Who's that ???? So: not impressed.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Just Lilly
#86 - 2014-02-05 15:56:02 UTC
Aight, back to the adrenaline pumping Dota 2 action

Nice hype though, well played CCP Pirate

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Manic Velocity
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#87 - 2014-02-05 15:56:03 UTC
I'm going to have my name inscribed on a national monument. I'm kind of a big deal.

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Ammzi
Dreddit
Test Alliance Please Ignore
#88 - 2014-02-05 15:56:51 UTC
I was expecting to be underwhelmed.
I won! :D
jolanai
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#89 - 2014-02-05 15:58:17 UTC
Debora Tsung wrote:
Some day, ... I'll constantly bicker on about how things used to be better in my days and that game companies used to value their customers until they can recite everything tehy said in their sleep.


Is this your CSM application? If so, you have my vote.
Phoenix Jones
Small-Arms Fire
#90 - 2014-02-05 15:59:01 UTC
I don't know of many things that have had monuments erected in its name.

Warcraft? There's no Great Orc statue.

Everquest? No monument to it.

Gundam... oh wait they have that 10 story Gundam statue somewhere.

Yaay!!!!
Stitcher
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#91 - 2014-02-05 15:59:17 UTC  |  Edited by: Stitcher
Siobhan MacLeary wrote:
How does this thing even represent EVE? There's no imagery in the design that resembles anything in EVE, just a blank obelisk flanked by a face-like object. The only thing telling us that this monument represents EVE is that sculptor saying it does. It could just as well represent the struggle of the common man to understand the mindless rapacity of the business world, or something else appropriately art-wonky.


Once upon a time, the Apoc was one of the iconic ships of EVE... then it got remodelled.

Once upon a time, the Raven was one of the iconic ships of EVE... then it got remodelled.

Once upon a time, the Tempest was one of the iconic ships of EVE... then it got remodelled.

So, I guess what I'm saying is that if you want the monument to be a permanent and unchanging tribute to all of the EVE players, then it should be a statue of a Megathron.

AKA Hambone

Author of The Deathworlders
Roux Michon
#92 - 2014-02-05 15:59:20 UTC
Siobhan MacLeary wrote:
How does this thing even represent EVE? There's no imagery in the design that resembles anything in EVE, just a blank obelisk flanked by a face-like object. The only thing telling us that this monument represents EVE is that sculptor saying it does. It could just as well represent the struggle of the common man to understand the mindless rapacity of the business world, or something else appropriately art-wonky.

I'm disappointed, CCP, because you made such a big deal over this and it's something that doesn't actually affect a lot of us.


^THIS.

All day long.

Where did CCP dig up their marketing and community people? Or did some Executive force this down their throats as a vanity project?

I think the latter is more of the problem.

There is an obvious disconnect between CCP and the players here. And whoever forced this project is living in a bubble far away from normal people.
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#93 - 2014-02-05 15:59:23 UTC
Siobhan MacLeary wrote:
I am so completely and utterly underwhelmed, CCP. Yeah, I guess a monument is cool, but here I was thinking the timer would be counting down to some important change to EVE Online, rather than an announcement about a planned monument.

How does this thing even represent EVE? There's no imagery in the design that resembles anything in EVE, just a blank obelisk flanked by a face-like object. The only thing telling us that this monument represents EVE is that sculptor saying it does. It could just as well represent the struggle of the common man to understand the mindless rapacity of the business world, or something else appropriately art-wonky.

I'm disappointed, CCP, because you made such a big deal over this and it's something that doesn't actually affect a lot of us.


Same tired old arguments used against Maya Lins' minimalist design for the Vietnam Memorial in Washingto DC. "Nobody will go. It's ugly. A black slab has nothing to do with Vietnam". Blah blah blah.

It's so popular they can't hardly handle the crowds.

Time will tell all. It always does.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Benny Ohu
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
#94 - 2014-02-05 16:00:13 UTC
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
Interesting that you are so impressively psychic that you "just know these things as truth". Good God.

that one posts to sound edgy and cynical

knobber Jobbler wrote:
Richard Garriot took my name to space. Beat that.

perhaps we can arrange for you to be taken up and left there

Simon Page wrote:
The players I'm sure would rather this money be spent on the game, or given to a charity,

no a statue with me on it will be just fine
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#95 - 2014-02-05 16:01:13 UTC
Roux Michon wrote:


There is an obvious disconnect between CCP and the players here. And whoever forced this project is living in a bubble far away from normal people.


So, showing appreciation of customers is a disconnect ? OK then. Got it.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Silent Rambo
Orion Positronics
#96 - 2014-02-05 16:01:39 UTC
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
What a bunch of pessimistic, self-entitled, unimaginative DWEEBS poasting in here.

CCP should just copy the toon names of all the Haters in this thread and LEAVE THEM OFF the monument.

Easily done. And I hope they do.


I really wouldn't care. It's not my actual name on the monument anyway. In 100 years is anyone really going to care about a gamer tag named "Silent Rambo" on a monument in Iceland? How is having a little perspective of how little this actually effects me now and forever being unimaginative? (I'll give you pessimistic) I understand it will bring old players back which is fantastic, but it really looks like a vanity project more then anything since there are other ways to bring old players back.

You really think someone would do that? Just log into EvE and tell lies?
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#97 - 2014-02-05 16:02:27 UTC
Benny Ohu wrote:
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
Interesting that you are so impressively psychic that you "just know these things as truth". Good God.

that one posts to sound edgy and cynical


Just exactly as you just did right here. Congratulations, creep.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Kasife Vynneve
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#98 - 2014-02-05 16:02:54 UTC
Chad Wylder wrote:

Steel plate on the bottom = Minmatar

Only when it starts to rust
Gyromite
AWE Corporation
Intrepid Crossing
#99 - 2014-02-05 16:04:09 UTC
Very touching, but useless.
Lyell Wolf
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#100 - 2014-02-05 16:05:17 UTC
GOTBOT wrote:

A monument.. or tombstone?



That comment actually feels more valid than any of the others... that being said. I think it's really cool what CCP is doing and I'm not disappointed.

But a laptop with vids and things of EVE buried underneath a monument actually sounds like a tombstone.

//LW