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06-07-2009, 10:11 PM
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In the early years of the MMO genre (http://www.mmocrunch.com/2007/12/04/top-5-most-memorable-events-in-mmorpg-history/), developers and game masters routinely ran special once-only events to immerse the playerbase in a game's storyline. Storytelling has always been one of EVE Online (http://www.eve-online.com)'s strongest features and in the early days of EVE (http://www.massively.com/category/eve-online/) developers showed a significant commitment to immersive events (http://www.eve-search.com/thread/179472/page/1). These events unfortunately became plagued with difficulties and inadequacies, leading to the eventual shut-down of events altogether. Of course EVE isn't the only game hit by these issues, it forms part of what I consider to be a very disappointing trend. In recent years, many MMOs have opted to replace authored events with predictable seasonal festivals or have even eliminated events altogether. EVE's storyline is now simply a collection of stories (http://www.massively.com/2009/05/09/ccp-games-to-revamp-the-lore-of-eve-online/) and the news items tell tales of in-game events which never actually happened (http://www.eveonline.com/news.asp). In my opinion, this was one of the biggest mistakes the game's developers CCP Games (http://www.massively.com/tag/ccp-games/) have ever made.
In this article, I grapple with the problems EVE's events have had and find potential solutions in some unlikely places.Continue reading EVE Evolved: World events in EVE Online (http://www.massively.com/2009/06/07/eve-evolved-world-events-in-eve-online/)
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In the early years of the MMO genre (http://www.mmocrunch.com/2007/12/04/top-5-most-memorable-events-in-mmorpg-history/), developers and game masters routinely ran special once-only events to immerse the playerbase in a game's storyline. Storytelling has always been one of EVE Online (http://www.eve-online.com)'s strongest features and in the early days of EVE (http://www.massively.com/category/eve-online/) developers showed a significant commitment to immersive events (http://www.eve-search.com/thread/179472/page/1). These events unfortunately became plagued with difficulties and inadequacies, leading to the eventual shut-down of events altogether. Of course EVE isn't the only game hit by these issues, it forms part of what I consider to be a very disappointing trend. In recent years, many MMOs have opted to replace authored events with predictable seasonal festivals or have even eliminated events altogether. EVE's storyline is now simply a collection of stories (http://www.massively.com/2009/05/09/ccp-games-to-revamp-the-lore-of-eve-online/) and the news items tell tales of in-game events which never actually happened (http://www.eveonline.com/news.asp). In my opinion, this was one of the biggest mistakes the game's developers CCP Games (http://www.massively.com/tag/ccp-games/) have ever made.
In this article, I grapple with the problems EVE's events have had and find potential solutions in some unlikely places.Continue reading EVE Evolved: World events in EVE Online (http://www.massively.com/2009/06/07/eve-evolved-world-events-in-eve-online/)
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