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Myyona

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Worst news of today.
« on: 28 Mar 2012, 07:32 »
CCP Dropbear is no longer with CCP. Guess moving to Iceland was not an interest of his. :(
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Re: Worst news of today.
« Reply #1 on: 28 Mar 2012, 08:35 »
Damn. Let's hope the consequences of this won't become to dire.

...being positive about future predictions was never my strong point.
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Re: Worst news of today.
« Reply #2 on: 28 Mar 2012, 09:11 »
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Re: Worst news of today.
« Reply #3 on: 28 Mar 2012, 09:15 »
Definitely going to miss having Dropbear around as a dev, but on the other hand, this means that if he has the time, he could come back to EVE as a player.

Also, CCP Goliath (@CCP_Goliath on Twitter) is one of the people picking up the mantle of Live Events, according to the forums - we should do what we can to help them make the transition easy and smooth. :)
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Re: Worst news of today.
« Reply #4 on: 28 Mar 2012, 09:43 »
Well, that's no good. Ah well. Let's give the new team time to settle into Dropbear's previously running events. Hopefully the pace of things will pick up now that there's multiple people on the job.
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Re: Worst news of today.
« Reply #5 on: 28 Mar 2012, 10:44 »
I read CCP Goliath's comments with some puzzlement, since at Fanfest I thought the message was that Abraxas and Gnauton are now "it", and content work will depend a lot on their time and priorities.
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Re: Worst news of today.
« Reply #6 on: 28 Mar 2012, 17:57 »
Gnauton is still around?
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Re: Worst news of today.
« Reply #7 on: 28 Mar 2012, 23:49 »
Unless there's now a CCP Norton...
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Re: Worst news of today.
« Reply #8 on: 29 Mar 2012, 01:43 »
Quote from: Graelyn on 28 Mar 2012, 17:57
Gnauton is still around?
Yes. CCP Gnauton and CCP Abraxas (and one more guy I can't remember) are essentially the content team at present. CCP Goliath and CCP Affinity seem to be in charge of Live Events, with support from the content guys.
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Re: Worst news of today.
« Reply #9 on: 29 Mar 2012, 03:35 »
Quote from: Matariki Rain on 28 Mar 2012, 23:49
Unless there's now a CCP Norton...

So many bad puns here.
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Re: Worst news of today.
« Reply #10 on: 29 Mar 2012, 09:09 »
Had conversation with a dev, while both of us had been drinking.
Dev said "Aurora events, they were cool and we'd like them to come back"
Ulf said "but some people think that Aurora events only pretended to let players affect the story and were therefore fail"
Dev said "no, really apart from that one time, players could affect the story"
Ulf said "but if the players find out once that it was fake, they suspect all the other times as being fake too"
Dev said sadly "yeah..."

Make of that what you will.

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Re: Worst news of today.
« Reply #11 on: 29 Mar 2012, 10:13 »
Quote from: Ulphus on 29 Mar 2012, 09:09
Had conversation with a dev, while both of us had been drinking.
Dev said "Aurora events, they were cool and we'd like them to come back"
Ulf said "but some people think that Aurora events only pretended to let players affect the story and were therefore fail"
Dev said "no, really apart from that one time, players could affect the story"
Ulf said "but if the players find out once that it was fake, they suspect all the other times as being fake too"
Dev said sadly "yeah..."

Make of that what you will.
Can we affect the outcome if a wiki article, chronicle, news item or a book comes out? I wouldn't really have an issue if CCP began to arrange scripted events. Manipulating the relatively predictable player response to get what they want, or being prepared for all the possible outcomes would of course be nicer than reliance on sheer force or overriding what happened in the game with out-of-game fiction.
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Re: Worst news of today.
« Reply #12 on: 29 Mar 2012, 12:02 »
On another topic was someone on the Story-Setting-Delivery roundtable on fanfest?... was there some new infos? I just found this.  :cry:
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Re: Worst news of today.
« Reply #13 on: 29 Mar 2012, 12:05 »
Quote from: Publius Valerius on 29 Mar 2012, 12:02
On another topic was someone on the Story-Setting-Delivery roundtable on fanfest?... was there some new infos? I just found this.  :cry:

I was there. I even now have the slides from it, although I'm waiting for confirmation that I can circulate them.

Could you be specific about which bit you're unhappy with?
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Re: Worst news of today.
« Reply #14 on: 29 Mar 2012, 12:08 »
unhapppy with nothing.^^ Just seek for new infos... what will come.
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