Demangel
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Posted - 2006.03.24 01:08:00 -
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ROFL, I find all this really amusing.
I would admit, I don't think I'd be angry one bit about it if I was on Iron/G's side... Though I might be a bit jealous for the attention... But I wouldn't go off spouting accusations of Gm's playing favorites.
It's not like this one event doomed G/Iron to extinction, or even kicked them out of D7...
Of course, the event may have only just started, who knows what will happen next...
I would say this however...
Nothing can be gained without some form of sacrifice... some price is always paid for such assistance, seeing as CCP (by proxy) is in effect buffing a player faction, and will likely continue to do so... One must wonder what the real costs will be in the long run for the player faction in question, not just what the short term costs are.
It is the nature of making deals with the devil, that the price for ones dreams often seems so small in comparison, until at last the time comes to pay the piper...
The only thing people need to wonder here... assuming CCP plays this well, Who is the devil, and who is going to be paying in the end?
As far as I see it, even if I wasn't involved in the factions specified, or even if I was on the recieving end of the guristas guns, I would see this as a cool event, one that makes EVE seem more alive...
IMHO the factions and nations in EVE, if used as nothing more than game mechanic pathways, are a horrible waste of ambience, and backstory... IMHO for EVE to realy feel alive, EVEs factions have to act alive now and then, even if they only ever play a second fiddle role in the player driven content, they are NPC's, and as such, must serve as a means to drive the games RP content forward, not just a source of missions, loot, and things to shoot at.
What seems horrible to some of you, is IMHO something that would draw others to EVE if they knew it happened... I know next time i try and sell some of my friends on the game, I will bring up this event as one of the reasons why EVE is revolutionary, and really more than just an endless grind of leveling and aquisition, because it goes to show that there is more to this game that just pixels on the screen... When events such as these happen, EVE feels alive...
Why?
Simple... Because such events have repurcussions, and ripples, They actually effect a change...
How many events in WOW/EQ have this quality about them? Unless you count handing out of uber rare loot as reward for saying your thee's and thou's properly, I think it's safe to say that none of those games have come even close to making thier events feel as if part of EVE.
So I'm sorry, win or lose, knowing real players are involved and it having a major part of the games cannon/story, are really worth the loss of a little pride to the G/Iron invasion... Besides, there is always the possibility the same could happen in favor of you. Will you moan then?
Galaxion > If you drove a car shaped like a thorax women would call you
Demangel > Dude... I would call..
Demangel > wait that sounded g@y I bet.
Galaxion > Just a bit.
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