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passing the torch of Lead Game Designer for EVE to TomB

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Originally by: kieron

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You can read this and more in LeKjart's new Dev Blog.

Please note: We are already aware that some members of the community have strong political views about interacting with the Chinese government. I would ask that all political commentary not be posted in response to this blog, or opened as a topic on the EVE Online forums. There are plenty of other venues for political discussion elsewhere.

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Originally by: LeKjart

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I must admit though, that the idea of bringing the Chinese players to TQ sounded like a really interesting and intriguing large scale cultural encounter. But when I think about it now, I think that it would really only be interesting if the two cultures meet as equals.

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Originally by: Cmdr Sy

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I wish CCP financial success in this enterprise, in so far as I am under the impression that the two businesses will financially linked, and we may see some benefits from CCP having more money to reinvest in development here. On the other hand I could be wrong and profits made in one market would be reinvested only locally. Perhaps there could be some clarification as to whether the US/EU EVE community is actually likely to see any long-term benefits from this, and what they might be? As things stand, this whole story is an interesting bit of background knowledge with no real impact on the rest of us, rather like CCP's earlier office move.

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Originally by: LeKjart

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Like I said in the blog, the code base of Serenity and Tranquility will be identical. This means that all game improvements go to both clusters, so the reinvestment goes to everybody, but is not earmarked for a specific cluster. So the rule remains the same: more subscribers means more revenues for us to evolve EVE :)

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Originally by: Razin

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Edited by: Razin on 11/04/2006 21:24:32
With the potential for the Serenity population to be much larger then Tranquility's, could there come a time when CCP, faced with a difference of opinion between the two communities on game mechanics or philosophy issues, lets the larger one drive the development?

(Given that "the code base of Serenity and Tranquility will be identical" (c))

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I must admit though, that the idea of bringing the Chinese players to TQ sounded like a really interesting and intriguing large scale cultural encounter. But when I think about it now, I think that it would really only be interesting if the two cultures meet as equals. Who knows, maybe later, if the legal landscape changes, we could conceive some kind of new shared territory where the Tranquility and Serenity players would be able to meet and interact. But only time will tell.

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Originally by: Alexis DeTocqueville

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Edited by: Alexis DeTocqueville on 11/04/2006 22:28:49

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I must admit though, that the idea of bringing the Chinese players to TQ sounded like a really interesting and intriguing large scale cultural encounter. But when I think about it now, I think that it would really only be interesting if the two cultures meet as equals. Who knows, maybe later, if the legal landscape changes, we could conceive some kind of new shared territory where the Tranquility and Serenity players would be able to meet and interact. But only time will tell.

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How absurdly condescending. What unique social and cultural "Clash of Civilizations" potential does the People's Republic of China have to offer EVE Online that other (freer) southeast asian countries can't? Are you under the spurious assumption that everyone there practices Confucianism and Feng Shui while South Korea and Japan have all embraced godless consumerism and western culture? If you'd pull your head out of your starry-eyed naivete you might notice that South Korea has the largest concentration of MMORPG gamers per square mile.

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Originally by: Sir Juri

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you need to learn what you are talking about, their is a reason they aint going for the south korean market. Prolly many reasons.

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Now calm down, do you get this worked up about Microsoft working on the japanese market?

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Originally by: Alexis DeTocqueville

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How absurdly condescending. What unique social and cultural "Clash of Civilizations" potential does the People's Republic of China have to offer EVE Online that other (freer) southeast asian countries can't? Are you under the spurious assumption that everyone there practices Confucianism and Feng Shui while South Korea and Japan have all embraced godless consumerism and western culture? If you'd pull your head out of your starry-eyed naivete you might notice that South Korea has the largest concentration of MMORPG gamers per square mile. Why not try and court them?

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Originally by: Hoshi

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Hehe see you used joshuas map
http://games.sina.com.cn/o/i/2006-03-28/160695545.shtml

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Originally by: LeKjart

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Frankly I don't understand your point, but then again, I'm absurdedly stuck in some spurious starry-eyed naivete.

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