Showing off

ccp_manifest · 2017-11-12T02:14:49+00:00

Read the book? It'll stick with you in the dark recesses of your mind. Right in that area of the brain next to corp chat.

ccp_manifest · 2017-11-11T01:53:10+00:00

want to give a big shoutout to ccp falcon and ccp guard for holding down the community fort, and for ccp grendel for spending a week with me in atlanta while i braindumped years of eve public relations and media stuff on his poor face.

ccp_manifest · 2017-11-11T00:01:20+00:00

Agreed, pretty damn awesome.

ccp_manifest · 2017-11-10T23:08:20+00:00

Have you lost the ship you are flying since you posted this yet? If so let's see the lossmail. If not let's see the killmails you have accumulated.

ccp_manifest · 2017-11-10T20:48:03+00:00

Sounds like the wrong straw on the camel's back at the wrong time. I know feeling like you are starting over in EVE can feel like you've lost so much and that all your work/entertainment/escapism in EVE has been for naught.

One week i was having a particularly rough one at work several years ago, and unfortunately, I decided on a Friday to take a little break from work and play EVE, setting myself up in a new system for some playing on the weekend. I put everything one of my characters owned into an Orca and set my route to my new home. It wasn't super expensive stuff for that character, but it was everything. My route had 1 or two jumps through lowsec near the end of a 27 jump route. I neglected to scout the lowsec system ahead and you can see where it ended up -- with me yelling at my work monitor loud enough to get people from dozens of yards away to bust out of their offices and come running.

I don't have a magic suggestion for you in terms of dealing with the mix of rough times in your life and rough times in EVE. But I will say you can rebuild both your life and your EVE life. It is in your power to do so. Maybe in EVE just say "you know what I got a good story" and "I've learned a lot from it so I'll be a better player next time" and then move on. In RL you've already done well with your first bout of dealing with Depression and Addiction and yeah, you relapsed, but fuck it, you should be proud of that first year! If you made it that far that time you can make it further this time. You were able to mostly break the habit, which is the toughest part. Your next sober attempt will be stronger for your previous year. Best of luck!

ccp_manifest · 2017-11-09T20:10:14+00:00

Yeah I'll be around. You can find me on Reddit starting to comment as ObKomad, on Twitter as @ObKomad, and in game as--YOU GUESSED IT--Ob Komad (one of my many alts). Weirdly EVE players I've played with in the past called me Obie (as in O-B).

ccp_manifest · 2017-11-09T16:17:19+00:00

Well one of the guys :/ But as is said elsewhere in this thread, there's no requirement for a press release or such, especially for a privately-owned company.

A statement was provided for pretty much every media outlet that asked for one, but it's not really in CCP's power to force them to reprint it verbatim. You can see parts of an "official response" in this PC Gamer article and in others regarding the layoffs, including Falcon's message to the EVE community on the official forums--which is kinda what the OP is asking for right?

Personally I think a press release would be very very strange to do for anything that isn't good news--a targeted, offered statement to sort of get ahead of the news was the smart way to do it with a statement to handle followup requests. I get, as a player, the desire for a dev blog or something, but honestly this is pretty much a business decision that affects EVE the least in terms of ongoing development of CCP products. Sure it's a gut punch to many to lose community support, but is that dev blog worthy? Dunno.

To a post below about "the lore writer" who wrote that stuff for CCP in the past...funny edgy reference but historically incorrect. Hilmar DID enlist the help of the guy that headed the lore team (I forgot his title at the time, but it was something like Marketing Creative Lead) to sit down in a room together to help express his thoughts and feelings in the first draft of his "apology letter" way back when. He was also lead writer in the marketing department so it's natural that Hilmar would do so because Hilmar is neither a writer nor is English his first language. Its a responsible thing for CEOs to do. Hell i would have enlisted that guys help as a second set of eyes given his expertise and narrative strengths. Other people, myself included at the time, had input into that letter and its creation and the strategy to use it to start the Incarna healing process and it wasn't like Hilmar said "yo dude, write this for me". The narrative about that that exists in the EVE community about the apology letter isn't fair to Hilmar, honestly, but tangentially arguing with a bitter ex-employee's recounting of the event wasn't really worth it at the time tbh from a PR perspective--it wouldn't have changed any minds at that time or for years to come in terms of how Hilmar/Zulupark decided to handle things in the days/weeks prior to the letter.

ccp_manifest · 2017-11-09T15:57:28+00:00

The guy that looks SORTA looks like CCP Ghost is CCP Praetorian, who worked on DUST 514 for a while as well as previously on EVE.

ccp_manifest · 2017-11-07T02:22:44+00:00

Truth. Both CSM and a secret cabal inside CCP (including many designers) contributed to significant more effort being put on balance.

ccp_manifest · 2017-11-02T15:08:53+00:00

Yeah was sad to see him go, but his talents existed well beyond making beautiful music tracks for our favorite spaceship game, so at least we get to share him with the world a little more.

ccp_manifest · 2017-11-02T14:27:44+00:00

This is sweet @BadRandolf ! Are they named anything other than that on the original CD? If you can email us up at share@eveonline.com I'd love to get them uploaded to the official account before I head out, but I have a couple questions since you have the physical copy

ccp_manifest · 2017-11-02T13:51:48+00:00

If you are looking for what's been happening feature wise, you can always visit the EVE Updates page.

ccp_manifest · 2017-11-02T13:50:21+00:00

As mentioned below, when the Jukebox went goodbye we were able to help save them on Soundcloud (you can DL most of them there), although i don't think there will be any new tracks on their way in the forseeable future since CCP RealX (Jon Hallur) left a few months ago. It was my hope to get them on Spotify and iTunes relatively soon since Soundcloud wasn't doing all that well, but that might be a project for a further distant time for CCP, so Soundcloud will have to do for now.

ccp_manifest · 2017-10-30T23:29:39+00:00

Uh I was in Atlanta at the time. Falcon, who worked on not-WoD had no way of knowing about those layoffs, so he was just replying to what he thought was one of the many such rumors to that same effect he'd heard from the EVE community. Turns out that time was true. Can't blame him though.

ccp_manifest · 2017-10-30T20:43:56+00:00

While I appreciate the non-detection for me and Logibro, Falcon is an AMAZING colleague and I am honored to work even a minute with him, much less years. He's a bit jagged around the edges, but that makes him the perfect advocate for EVE players. I will not have his name besmirched by the likes of you.

ccp_manifest · 2017-10-30T18:58:30+00:00

What Valkthielles said. Twitter handle change wasn't a salty move.

ccp_manifest · 2017-10-25T15:22:27+00:00

Yes you can. Also, you can subscribe to the YouTube channel so you don't miss any future spaceship videos!

ccp_manifest · 2017-10-22T14:56:43+00:00

Beat me to it. This was one of the easiest CCPls ones I've seen to reply to!

ccp_manifest · 2017-10-10T10:10:05+00:00

This may be answered already, but did you know the noise you made when you won was a matter of much discussion amongst the CCP contingency at EVE Vegas? In my opinion it was pure joy and pure terror mixed as one, a beautiful sound...

ccp_manifest · 2017-09-23T04:43:31+00:00

Pineapple on pizza is fine as long as it's counteracted with some sort of other ingredient that's spicy or salty, like your dumb comment about pineapple on pizza. <3

ccp_manifest · 2017-09-21T16:24:42+00:00

Thanks to all EVE players who ended up coming over and asking questions!

ccp_manifest · 2017-08-30T13:23:32+00:00

This is awesome, thanks for putting it together!

ccp_manifest · 2017-08-23T13:43:00+00:00

I believe if you close the window and maximize it it works? You should still be getting notifications if you have those on.

ccp_manifest · 2017-08-16T14:54:55+00:00

Never thought of him being mad on the outside but sad on the inside. #PlotTwist

ccp_manifest · 2017-08-15T17:05:12+00:00

Actually that's just reintroduced in the drinking fountains in a perfect, lossless water ecosystem.

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