EVE General Discussion

What Jack says - to a degree at least. My issue with this is not so much the "world" part, but the "bee" part. It implies it's all about Goonswarm Federation when it's not. Would be the same as calling it "World War Bastion", "World War Northerncoalitiondotte" or calling the Second World War "World War Japan". Calling it "World War Monkey" would be more accurate than this.

I understand it's a wordplay, and I am kind of fine with this (it's better than "The Easter War" in any case), but it's also disrespectful and inaccurate.

My problem with it is that it sounds rubbish. It isn't very sci-fi, more like some kiddy WOW type name.

CCP have an epic sc-fi universe, and now a massive war to showcase eve and New Eden to the world, and they go with a name like this.... Someone dropped the ball in the marketing team.

It is cool if you are a 12 year old kiddie.

12 year olds would probably try making up some pompous name, like they would try to sound adult. We can just drop this manner, as we know we are here to have fun, not to be an adult. That is escapism. Basically everything with word bee that have some connotation to a conflict would pass. Like for example Bees knees massacre.

All the other names were tryhard snoozers that nobody liked.

In space, no one can hear you buzz.

If we can fit helmets on chickens, then surely we can manage that for the bees too.

"The Mercenary War", whilst perhaps technically correct, doesn't really have much pizazz to it. (plus, nothing wrong with being a mercenary in EvE anyway, eh?)

"Easter War" also sounds a bit *meh, imo (leaving aside silly mental images of killer rabbits throwing pastel-coloured eggs at each other)

I suppose "The War of Northern Aggression is right out y'all?

I think the Northern War/War of the North would have been fine. Kind of dull I guess but it would have been on the point which World War Bee is not.

The best I've heard so far is The Mercenary War. Although now it has turned into more of a general uprising fuelled by hatred despite mercenaries still playing a large role. For now something like Northern War, or perhaps War of the Betrayer considering how big a role the turning of CO2 played in the events.

In the end history will probably name this war based upon how it turns out.

OOoooOOOOoo! I'll play!

Chaosmageddon (it's what happens when Unstoppable Chaos meets Immovable Chaos!)
The War of the Flies (What's with all the buzzing?)
The Schrodinger's Monkey War (If you don't open the box, you won't know which way it ended up!)
The "Does this War Make My A## Look Big?" Vanity War
Rise and Fall of the Nerd Reich (Works for whomever wins or loses)

... eh could go on but they get raunchier from there...