EVE General Discussion

It's the new model for the Imicus.

okay so the ambulation portion of Carbon is the writeoff?

Lets hope theyre not cleaning up the balance sheet for a sale.

Games that require specialized hardware haven't been successful for 15 years.

In the early to mid 90s every flight simulator required you to use a joystick, racing games had steering wheel controllers and you had headache-inducing shutter glasses for your 3d games - but that's an era that has been over for a long time.

These days any game that relies on the gimmick of specialized hardware to set itself apart from the competition will fail (and no kinect is not even remotely comparable).

WoD, which I really want, is most likely. But they are still hiring in Atlanta, so idk, they just had a bunch of jobs open up there a few weeks back and still have a spot open for a database admin. In addition, whatever has been written off is already canned. You don't write something off then can it next year. So whatever it was is already gone. That means its not Dust (sorry dust haters) If they closed down dust you would see it on this years finances. As that's how it works. When you pay your taxes you fill out your info based on what you did last year.

My guess is it was either a massive rewrite or another project they found out was not going to to work and killed it.

WoD is a possibility, but if they are still hiring.. and they should be in fiscal year 2014 now anyway, so who knows.

While I like the idea behind Valkyrie, I'm not sure, as of yet, that it is a good business decision. They're basically betting the future on a new piece of tech that isn't really proven to have staying power, and if a better version of the Rift comes out from a competitor, they basically shot themselves in the foot. It's early enough in the tech's lifecycle that I could see this easily happening at this point. It just seems premature, when CCP can't really afford to bet the house on yet another project that's a failure.

Incarna is the most likely.

Bear in mind, depreciating the value on the balance sheet doesn't mean 'We've thrown this away'. It means 'We don't think it's worth X amount any more'

With no significant implementation for the last 3 years or so, that kind of fits Incarna's code, no?


(This isn't a judgement on the value of Incarna btw. WiS could be worth implementing, if there was fun content involved)

Just release Hilmars $1000 Japanese Pants. Charge $1000 worth of aurum and let the current monocle users decide if they want to be known as too poor to buy 'The Pants'. As their egos carry them towards their credit cards, Incarna suddenly makes a fortune :-p

Remember when he said

Well we have had the cheaper stuff, now for the really exclusive stuff.

Sounds reasonable, but man 21m dollars, did they really value it THAT high? I mean, they were right on top of it and KNEW it was utter crap. I mean, last time I entered the CQ (long time ago) I still couldn't believe the sorry state it was in.... Then again, it wouldn't be the first time ppl got so delusional about their product that they couldn't see it was just a pile of excrement...

Anyone know what the price of the WW merger was? I bet it was close to 20 mill...