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Lucius Caine
Umbrella Corporation.
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Posted - 2008.10.10 03:34:00 -
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Edited by: Lucius Caine on 10/10/2008 03:34:59
I've heard that essentially the government of Iceland is bankrupt and is looking to the IMF for support. I also have read that most of the major banks in Iceland are now insolvent and was just wondering if this was going to affect CCP in anyway?
Hope all the employee's are doing well!!
Linky Link - http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/business/worldbusiness/10icebank.html
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CCP Mitnal
C C P
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Posted - 2008.10.10 03:49:00 -
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Moved to OOPE.
Mitnal
Community Representative
CCP Games, EVE Online
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Atomos Darksun
Infortunatus Eventus
Obsidian Empire
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Posted - 2008.10.10 04:02:00 -
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Nooooo....
NOT ANOTHER ONE! |
Mr Friendly
That it Should Come to This
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Posted - 2008.10.10 05:02:00 -
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Christ, I'm getting very drunk from the pint-debt of all these threads.
I have to work in 10 hours! Please stop posting these threads!
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Micheal Dietrich
Caldari
Terradyne Networks
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Posted - 2008.10.10 06:02:00 -
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uuurrrgggg
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Florio
Federal Defence Union
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Posted - 2008.10.10 06:15:00 -
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evidently, iceland is now treated as a terrorist organisation by the UK for failing to protect UK savers.
Remarkably, Gordon Brown says:
"We are freezing the assets of Icelandic companies in the United Kingdom where we can. We will take further action against the Icelandic authorities wherever that is necessary to recover money." |
Florio
Federal Defence Union
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Posted - 2008.10.10 06:16:00 -
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I hope they don't seize the EVE servers. I'm setting a long skill training just in case. o0 |
N'tek alar
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Posted - 2008.10.10 08:17:00 -
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 Originally by: Florio
I hope they don't seize the EVE servers. I'm setting a long skill training just in case. o0
How would that help if they took the servers?  |
MentaFox
The Chaotic Order
Void.
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Posted - 2008.10.10 08:57:00 -
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yeah, and when i heard about the whole topic of the UK hating on iceland in this iceland-bankruptcy-crisis i did wonder if this situation would have an effect on CCP.
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Andrue
Amarr
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Posted - 2008.10.10 09:01:00 -
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Edited by: Andrue on 10/10/2008 09:01:51
Originally by: Florio
evidently, iceland is now treated as a terrorist organisation by the UK for failing to protect UK savers.
Remarkably, Gordon Brown says:
"We are freezing the assets of Icelandic companies in the United Kingdom where we can. We will take further action against the Icelandic authorities wherever that is necessary to recover money."
It probably depends on who owns CCP. If it's entirely held in private hands and has no significant debt to Icelandic banks then it becomes harder (I assume) to seize it. In effect you'd be taking private property to pay for government debt which sounds dubious to me.
Sadly the authorities are quite happy to do that (or something very similar) with their own population so who knows 
It also depends on how sensible the authorities are (lol). The Eve cluster is only valuable for as long as CCP allow it to remain so. They can pull the plug on it any time they want and hopefully the authorities will realise that.
Lastly:Killing an international service like Eve-Online will not help the UK economy long term. We are dependant on our service sector and making international companies think twice about placing their servers here is a bad move.
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Kuolematon
Space Perverts and Forum Warriors United
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Posted - 2008.10.10 09:07:00 -
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That leaves another option: applying to join the European Union and adopting the euro. Because Iceland is already part of the European Economic Area, a looser trading group, it abides by many European Union rules.
Nice! So finally EUROPEAN players can enjoy CHEAP EVE too? c/d??? 
"The Amarr are the tanking and ganking floating rods of goldcrap"
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