EVE General Discussion

Yes, It is. I thought it is excellent that the college goes out of its way to introduce students to the industries they'll be in when they graduate. That is why the college supports online gaming like it does.

The college offers to pay for the subscriptions, it doesn't make the students subscribe. It DOES have students go thru the trial accounts.

The game design tech department has 5 classes each semester with at least 15 students per class subscribing to test accounts or trial accounts of many online games. If a student likes playing a game, the college pays for a 'paid account' and the student is required to evaluate the game regularly for grading.

It has been a year since the test by the Lan club. I think it is quite telling that EvE online is on the list of 'required testing' for the game design technology (trial accounts), but no students have decided to play the game for actual grading (subscription accounts paid by the college).

Something's got to be said when a game can not intice players interested in the industry to play the game, even when those players don't have to pay for it.

Some of my coworkers know, I've even talked some of them into trying it out. Mostly they play WOW though, so EVE just terrifies them. I keep trying to recruit them though, more fodder ya know.

Where do you get this from this thread?
I haven't read every post, to be honest, but a lot of them, and I see tons of "yeah, my co-workers know" posts without any indication it's a bad thing.
I see a post about a recruitment agency with the opinion that being in goons is bad, and being in a successful alliance in a leadership role is good. (btw.. what happens when someone fulfills both?)
I see Dinsdale saying "if they knew I'd get fired" or something to that amount. I think he may be exaggerating.

From personal experience I can only say that playing MMOs in general is looked at as "oh well, computer games" by my co-workers. They're not terrible excited about it, and some express the opinion you can do more constructive things with your time.
EVE they at least consider interesting, when I tell them about it.
That doesn't mean they'd play, of course. This is just a response to the "not a favorable idea in the working environment" thing.

We could run a thread in any MMO, "Do your friends/co-workers know you play an MMO" with similar results.


As for me, pretty much everyone knows I play MMOs, and I have had MMOs on my CV in one way or another for about 10 years.

Mostly people have been curious about what exactly it involves, and with Eve the usual response is "Oh, that is the spreadsheet game isn't it", with WoW it was "How exactly do you get 40 people to turn up when you are not paying them, I can't get 8 people to always turn up on time and they are being paid"