Provence Tristram
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Posted - 2011.08.30 07:04:00 -
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 Originally by: Bluecollar Tweaker
Bottom line is this: Eve University is only important to themselves. They've been trying to get the game customized to their needs for years. They want everyone to believe they're here to help the game but the large majority of teachers/staff in the corporation have never played the game any other way; they've been in Eve University this whole time. The point is, what they teach is stale. Eve University is still egohurt over what happened to Big Blue and they are still playing the same game: LOCKDOWN. You want to see a fiefdom? Join Eve University... bunch of grown men trying to control the game of other people.
The true irony is this is the same -- legitimate -- criticism that has been fielded against real-life universities for decades; that their professors have little real-life experience. Instead of teaching people to be practical participants in society, they instead teach them to be good gears in the machine of the college world; and those two skillsets could hardly be more opposed. I believe that such complaints leveled against EUNI are fair -- I don't know if their hand-holding really accomplishes much of anything. You can learn most of the basic things you need to know about EVE in under a month. After that, membership in a good, real corp is going to go a lot further towards polishing a person as a player than continuing to languish in EUNI.
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I hope CCP gives them special privilege. It will be the final nail in the coffin for me, but at the same time CCP will get the education corporation they deserve, one that will teach everyone to be nice, mine, and above all else, don't undock... use that great new feature.
It might be hopes the CCP has learned, at least temporarily, to keep their collective hands off the hot stove. This idea doesn't seem popular, and could create yet another scandal. That's the last thing CCP wants or needs right now. *If* there was any truth behind these rumors, this thread might have killed all momentum such a proposal ever had.
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