EVE General Discussion

I can't really judge the DUST part of the CCP Presents keynote as I don't play DUST.

But the parts of the presentation that I did understand were almost exclusively about "How can we monetize the EVE IP in new ways without risking to lose focus?"

I guess that's a pretty interesting question if you are into product development, marketing or consider investing into CCP stock.

But as an EVE player "10 new ways to get more of your money by employing partners to produce & sell EVE merchandise" was not really what I had been looking for.

I think it was great fun. I enjoyed it quite alot. Even though I know that I will never play Dust514 myself, I dont feel like part of the EVE was somehow in shadow of Dust514. People were roaring when Odyssey features were shown, well maybe not when hacking tool was presented as it made me scratch my head a bit (It didnt look nor feel like... EVE, more like something from Dust). Overall I think CCP did good job there and it seems like people had fun.

Can someone point out which VODs I should watch for the EVE content? Im really confused looking at the twitch page, there are so much videos 6+ hrs, I dont have time to watch all this. Saw the 1 hr Eve keynote, was this the main announcement about odyssey, or was there more at fanfest?

I loved most of the big news ccp dropped for the next expansion and for the future. But I do agree there was a bit too much dust and real life lectures transmitted over the stream. I would like to have watched them as vods later but the stream seemed to lack something at times and that was eve stuff and news.

I'm really looking forward to the future of eve (including dust) but with the actual stream I would have preferred to see more eve bits. Also please please please can you start recording the round tables etc and at least release them as vods or audio files. Oh and shoot your production team there was some extremely sloppy bits of the stream especially with the audio.

People get shocked that CCP say many things about dust in the year dust goes live.

In other news, CCP have announced a tonne of stuff to do with space things that is going to keep the forum warriors busy for at least the next six months.

It was pretty flat. Not a lot of reveals. I got the feeling they don't know what they are really going to do with eve. Player built stargates and new modular POS system would be cool... but I got the sense it was just "cloud talk" and nothing was really in development yet. Guess we'll see... yah not much interesting new info. Maybe they'll make up for it with blogs...

At least we get a Genosis though!

Simple: because they're offering a solid expansion with much-needed and long-awaited changes, along with more tools for us to create gameplay.

I've had a truly awesome time. The round tables were generally interesting and the Key Notes had some great moments. I was as ecstatic as the rest of the crowd when they mentioned the change to scanning but a chill went up my spine when CCP Seagull suggested we we are going to get to build star gates and that Dust Mercenaries would become our boarding parties in fleet warfare.

Bur most of the value I'll take away didn't happen on the stage. I got to chat with Zapatero (EON Magazine's fomer editor) about the great moments in EVE history and it's wonderful characters; I met Seleene and some of his wing mates and heard first hand of the rise and fall of BDCI and the Mercenary Coalition; CEO Hilmar sat at my table at dinner and conveyed his passion for the game, his vision and the talented people he has gathered around him; CCP Rippley the mother Godess, Thor-like CCP Xhagen and CCP Dolan a talented team builder were delighted I crossed the room to introduce myself; CSM members Trebor, Two Step and Hans Jagerblitzen all had time to chat about the game.

And I haven't mentioned the married couple from Indiana who've tried all the other games and decided this is the one; the 39 year old software engineer who fell in love with Elite as an 8 year old and now camps gates preying on industrialists like me happily telling me tactics for avoiding them; the Swedish business owner who makes Capitals for a null sec alliance sharing with me insights on moon-mining in hostile territory.

I come away not being able to decide which is more interesting, the EVE stories or the real stories but certain that this game is touching an immense cross section of society, in every demographic, in every corner of the world, many more of whom I can now call friend all because I decided to spend a weekend in April in Iceland with a bunch of people who also love this game.

Note to self: that was a great decision.

I loved the stream, more changes of pants needed in 3 days than expected!

Going to have to finally make the effort to go there next year.

Very excited about the announced changes, and the hinted at ones

Dust is free to play but is making a ton of money on microtransactions in BETA.

Earlier announcements stated that they financed the development and its not coming out of revenue from eve players. If anything it is giving EVE more resources to work with, as far as I can tell.