88 million for default judgement in Blizzard case

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by krogothwolf

Yes but everything I've heard about EVE online is the whole point of the game is to not play the game.

FTFY.

[Nikose Tyris]

Originally Posted by bluestarultor

I don't play a game, but I read about it online and that qualifies me to make funny jokes about how it's horrible, hurr hurr

FTFY.

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by Nikose Tyris

FTFY.

However did you guess?


In all seriousness, people get way too serious about EVE. When a Russian guy dumps the GDP of several African nations into buying ships for his corporation, someone actually finds a guy in real life a cuts his phone line, or a person spends years working his way to the top of a rival corporation as a spy and then sells it to its biggest competitor and people fear for the future of the in-game market, which is intertwined both incoming and outgoing with real-world money no less, you have...

I have no idea what you have, but it's something people take way too seriously.

[Yrcrazypa]

The guy who spent years working his way to the top of a rival corporation though is probably the single greatest thing I've ever heard of in a game. Seriously, that takes dedication, and is pretty hilarious too.

[Jagos]

Wait... What?

[EVILNess]

I don't get why everyone rips on EVE so much, it simply uses a real world model for consequences (minus the whole immortal Clone Baby thing), unlike say WoW where you simply pay a few gold for your repair and walk back to a corpse.

I'm so sorry that EVE severely punishes bad decisions and rewards making connections and finding people you can trust.

As for all of these "unbelievable" stories that people hear, shit like this happens all the time in the real world. A pirate attack is like a random mugging, you don't go through certain systems at certain times, just like you don't go through certain parts of town at certain hours of the day. White collar crime can happen everywhere as well. Real world or a MMO.

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by EVILNess

I don't get why everyone rips on EVE so much, it simply uses a real world model for consequences (minus the whole immortal Clone Baby thing), unlike say WoW where you simply pay a few gold for your repair and walk back to a corpse.

I'm so sorry that EVE severely punishes bad decisions and rewards making connections and finding people you can trust.

As for all of these "unbelievable" stories that people hear, shit like this happens all the time in the real world. A pirate attack is like a random mugging, you don't go through certain systems at certain times, just like you don't go through certain parts of town at certain hours of the day. White collar crime can happen everywhere as well. Real world or a MMO.

That's particularly the issue I have with it. You don't pay $11-15 a month to live real life. I know EVE players. I simply don't see the allure of spending money to live in a world where the only differences are a balance between different classes of space ships (which is a fantastic system, mind you) and the fact that learning a skill doesn't actually teach you something you could get a meatspace job with, despite an insane variety of them that makes most colleges shrivel in impotence.

That's pretty much why I think the whole setup's crazy. EVE is like a backwards MMORPG. It's an MMOG that apes everything about real life for better or worse. I personally barely have time for ONE real life, much less an MMOG of any sort. EVE is a simulator and it mostly simulates something that people playing online games are generally trying to get away from.

When aliens finally find us, EVE is either going to be the thing that pushes them to destroy us all or the thing that saves humanity from destruction. Or maybe it'll break their brains and they'll all go stark raving mad and commit suicide.



Edit:

I mean, really, it's not my cup of tea, but it's not my place to judge others whose it is. You still can't go along acting like there's no reason for people to double take and go "ABUH?" when you have that kind of radically different setup. Applying real-world logic to a genre driven by moon logic is going to turn heads the same way as applying moon logic to the real world.

[Krylo]

I don't know much about Eve...

But that's only because I couldn't stand playing it for over fifteen minutes with the bassackwards interface when I downloaded the demo.

But I DO know that it has little to do with multimillion dollar lawsuits.

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by Krylo

I don't know much about Eve...

But that's only because I couldn't stand playing it for over fifteen minutes with the bassackwards interface when I downloaded the demo.

But I DO know that it has little to do with multimillion dollar lawsuits.

You'd be surprised. EVE is the only example where one might be both the head of a multimillion dollar international corporation and also work as a fry chef at McDonald's. :P

[Krylo]

I meant ones dealing with real dollars, not Eve dollars, whatever they are called with real world corporations, not intergalactive Eve corporations.

I am perfectly aware such things probably go on in the game world.