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Posted - 2006.11.13 07:55:00 -
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 Originally by: kieron
During his keynote speech yesterday, Hellmar announced the merger of CCP Games and White Wolf. Needless to say, this is big news in both industries, online gaming and traditional RPGs. The Press Release is available for reading.
Uh-oh.
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So, what does this mean for the EVE Online community? In the short term, little has changed. CCP is the same company, a little larger but with a giant intellectual property for future expansions. The Dev team will continue to focus on EVE, but some of the technologies we are developing - full body avatars, and station environments & interaction - will be used as a foundation for future MMOGs based on the White Wolf intellectual properties.
Future MMOGs? So the Dev team WON'T be focussing on EVE or will, at best, be diluted and stretched in 2 directions. Yippee.
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White Wolf will be forging ahead with their talents for the future production of an EVE Online based traditional RPG and table top starship combat games, as well as miniatures (and there was much rejoicing!), comics, graphic novels, etc.
Yeah, table-top games and plastic toys, that's what EVE is missing 
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CCP will continue to expand the number of developers in CCP and in the near future begin production on a to be announced MMOG based on White Wolf's World of Darkness RPG setting. While we will be able to use some of the technologies I mentioned earlier, this game is still a number of years from alpha, let alone release.
Yuh-huh, thought so.
Just a little history lesson - EVERY single time an MMORPG developer shifts into a new project the original MMMORPG that made them what they are starts an inevitable downward spiral. Dev attention gets moved away from the "old" warhorse and the new shiny baby becomes the raison d'etre, the one that gets the love.
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I'm sure there are a number of questions that need to be answered, so ask them in this thread, I will do what I can do answer them.
Yeah I've got a question, do you feel comfortable with the idea that CCP are now risking the entire future of EVE because of greed for more money from toys sales and a new MMORPG?
We've already seen this happening to EVE. When the cream of the dev team were taken away to work on the Chinese launch of EVE what happened here? Kali got 2/3rds of its features stripped and is STILL months and months late. Don't feed us this bull**** about "continue to focus on EVE" - we're not all blind and stupid even if you guys haven't got the ability to learn from others.
This purchase of White Elephant is a very bad idea. Current EVE players will gain NOTHING from it. Future potential EVE players will simply gain a competing MMORPG that almost certainly attempts to copy WoW.
0/10 CCP, I'm very glad I wasn't at the FanFest to receive this dire news, I'd have been very sad.
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