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Hybrid Horror
Shimata-Dominguez
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Posted - 2007.10.12 13:27:00 -
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Edited by: Hybrid Horror on 12/10/2007 13:27:54
Hi
I have heard rumours from a Microsoft UK employee that they are looking at buying CCP, the reasoning behind this is that the company is profitable and gives them access to new MMORG technology.
Has anyone else heard this? Before I get flamed to hell about this, this is WHAT I HAVE BEEN TOLD from a reliable source and no I don't have proof atm.
HH
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Xaen
Caldari
Caldari Provisions
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Posted - 2007.10.12 13:29:00 -
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I hope not. I'm sure the Linux support would die instantly.
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MotherMoon
Huang Yinglong
Namtz'aar k'in
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Posted - 2007.10.12 13:31:00 -
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errrr... Iceland.... America...
connect the dots... oh wait there is a world in between them.
I love the internets.
wait are you for real? where did you hear such a impossibleness hypothesis... did Steve tell you that?
(yeah I can't spell)
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Khes
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Posted - 2007.10.12 13:32:00 -
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Edited by: Khes on 12/10/2007 13:33:08
If this was to be true I belive Eve (as we know it) would die out after MS starts tampering with the game it self and makes it a highly comersialized main-stream product like a WoWin space.
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An Anarchyyt
Gallente
Sublime.
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Posted - 2007.10.12 13:33:00 -
[5]
Edited by: An Anarchyyt on 12/10/2007 13:33:16
Once I heard a rumor that ******'s Brain is living at CCP and actually created Eve, and that Iceland will soon be "annexing" Poland.
 Originally by: CCP Wrangler
Second, a gentile is a non jewish person
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Swatcat
xtort
Rare Faction
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Posted - 2007.10.12 13:33:00 -
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Edited by: Swatcat on 12/10/2007 13:33:53
I really hope they don't, I run primarily under Linux with the Transgaming engine, I am looking forward to CCP supporting a Linux client.
Swat
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Mel Ionix
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Posted - 2007.10.12 13:33:00 -
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Gawd I hope not 
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MotherMoon
Huang Yinglong
Namtz'aar k'in
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Posted - 2007.10.12 13:34:00 -
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Originally by: Swatcat
My source stated that MS is assisting CCP with development, providing developers and writing code to assist CCP improve the game - which would make sense as I believe the back-end systems are all Windows Servers.
I really hope they don't, I run primarily under Linux with the Transgaming engine, I am looking forward to CCP supporting a Linux client.
HH
swat...cats?
holy ****, nice.
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prsr
Gallente
JuBa Corp
RONA Alliance
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Posted - 2007.10.12 13:34:00 -
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Well, i suppose this is easier then sending out a billion emails if you want to jack the value of a company.
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Aeon Jonas
Caldari
The Caldari Confederation
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Posted - 2007.10.12 13:36:00 -
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If they do I will be asking for my money back for the whole time I have been in EVE as MS will tamper the f**k out of it and then make sure it can't be played on OS X or Linux when the client is in the beta stage atm.
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Hybrid Horror
Shimata-Dominguez
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Posted - 2007.10.12 13:36:00 -
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The comment was MADE by a Microsoft UK employee I know!
HH
Originally by: MotherMoon
errrr... Iceland.... America...
connect the dots... oh wait there is a world in between them.
I love the internets.
wait are you for real? where did you hear such a impossibleness hypothesis... did Steve tell you that?
(yeah I can't spell)
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CCP Wrangler
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Posted - 2007.10.12 13:36:00 -
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Anything is possible I guess, but I haven't heard anything like this, and it doesn't feel like something our leadership would plan for CCP's future.
Wrangler
Community Manager
EVE Online
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Xtown
The Graduates
Brutally Clever Empire
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Posted - 2007.10.12 13:38:00 -
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It's not that outlandish a claim. Companies like Microsoft employ people whose sole job is to find and evaluate opportunities for corporate development (I'm one myself - not for Microsoft, I have to add) and if they were looking at acquiring an MMO publisher they would certainly be considering CCP.
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MotherMoon
Huang Yinglong
Namtz'aar k'in
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Posted - 2007.10.12 13:39:00 -
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Originally by: Hybrid Horror
The comment was MADE by a Microsoft UK employee I know!
HH
Originally by: MotherMoon
errrr... Iceland.... America...
connect the dots... oh wait there is a world in between them.
I love the internets.
wait are you for real? where did you hear such a impossibleness hypothesis... did Steve tell you that?
(yeah I can't spell)
CCP just bought white wolf, does that mean they want to get into the pen and paper games market?
I mean CCP and whitewolf are the same company now.
I'm not saying he didn't say it, I'm just pointing why it seems silly.
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Janus Veyron
Veyron Group
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Posted - 2007.10.12 13:40:00 -
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My mothers sons daughters uncles cousins ex wife window clear said that too!
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Avon
Caldari
Black Nova Corp
Band of Brothers
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Posted - 2007.10.12 13:40:00 -
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It is important to focus on the positive.
I would welcome seeing "Microsoft Genuine Advantage Main Character" tags in CAOD, for example.
The Battleships is not and should not be a solo pwnmobile - Oveur
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Hybrid Horror
Shimata-Dominguez
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Posted - 2007.10.12 13:41:00 -
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Cheers for laying our fears to rest  , playing the devil (Microsoft) is something I would hope CCP never ventured down. I really like CCP as a MMOG provider because it's independent.
As for the comment - I will have to see how that got circulated, although I do emphesis that it was Microsoft employees stating it.
How closely do CCP and Microsoft (if at all) do you work together in terms of software technology?
HH
Originally by: CCP Wrangler
Anything is possible I guess, but I haven't heard anything like this, and it doesn't feel like something our leadership would plan for CCP's future.
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Hybrid Horror
Shimata-Dominguez
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Posted - 2007.10.12 13:43:00 -
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OMG, you are in the middle of a fleet battle and the titan pilot gets a message come up saying: "Please activate your Eve Client to continue" 
HH
Originally by: Avon
It is important to focus on the positive.
I would welcome seeing "Microsoft Genuine Advantage Main Character" tags in CAOD, for example.
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VaderDSL
Caldari
Murder-Death-Kill
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Posted - 2007.10.12 13:48:00 -
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I'm in two minds on if this should happen, MS are by no means the worst company to be bought by, I'd have a heart attack if SOE or EA Games made a bid for CCP, you never know MS might know that the success/money comes from the way eve is run or played, it maight allow massive updating of code/network infrastructures etc.
You never know, with anMS investment they might be able to pour resources into fixing the massive fleet battle lag, the day that happens the game will be the best game out there in my opinion 
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Lucre
STK Scientific
M. PIRE
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Posted - 2007.10.12 13:49:00 -
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Edited by: Lucre on 12/10/2007 13:50:08
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Lucre
STK Scientific
M. PIRE
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Posted - 2007.10.12 13:50:00 -
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Originally by: Hybrid Horror
OMG, you are in the middle of a fleet battle and the titan pilot gets a message come up saying: "Please activate your Eve Client to continue"
"You appear to be trying to shoot an enemy. Would you like some help...?"
Though equally I do rather like the idea of a Windows client with Solitaire, Minesweeper, Hearts, Pinball and Eve Online... |
Avon
Caldari
Black Nova Corp
Band of Brothers
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Posted - 2007.10.12 13:51:00 -
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You can not initiate warp because you are warp scrambled
|IGNORE| ________ |RETRY| ________ |ABORT|
The Battleships is not and should not be a solo pwnmobile - Oveur
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Maltitol
Gallente
Tides of Silence
Hydra Alliance
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Posted - 2007.10.12 13:52:00 -
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Originally by: Avon
You can not initiate warp because you are warp scrambled
|IGNORE| ________ |RETRY| ________ |ABORT|
IGNORE, IGNORE, IGNORE!!!
Awwww.. CTD'd :(
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Xaen
Caldari
Caldari Provisions
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Posted - 2007.10.12 13:54:00 -
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Originally by: MotherMoon
Originally by: Swatcat
My source stated that MS is assisting CCP with development, providing developers and writing code to assist CCP improve the game - which would make sense as I believe the back-end systems are all Windows Servers.
I really hope they don't, I run primarily under Linux with the Transgaming engine, I am looking forward to CCP supporting a Linux client.
HH
swat...cats?
holy ****, nice.
The back end systems are clusters. Windows don't run on clusters, *nix does.
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Taedrin
Gallente
Magellan Exploration and Survey
Rare Faction
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Posted - 2007.10.12 13:55:00 -
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Originally by: Avon
You can not initiate warp because you are warp scrambled
|IGNORE| ________ |RETRY| ________ |ABORT|
It's Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail
not ignore retry abort =)
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Cailais
Amarr
VITOC
Fang Alliance
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Posted - 2007.10.12 13:56:00 -
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Originally by: CCP Wrangler
Anything is possible I guess, but I haven't heard anything like this, and it doesn't feel like something our leadership would plan for CCP's future.
Lets hope not, it would be then end of eve if they did.
C.
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Motokko
Minmatar
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Posted - 2007.10.12 13:57:00 -
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Microsoft Eve Online has encountered a problem
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Dopple
Utopian Research I.E.L.
Hedonistic Imperative
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Posted - 2007.10.12 14:00:00 -
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So are you saying that Bill Gates is in BoB?
Yeah sorry, guess ya had to have the thought process.
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Buxaroo
Reikoku
Band of Brothers
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Posted - 2007.10.12 14:03:00 -
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I would treat the whole episode like I did the SOE raping the playerbase with the NGE. I am pretty sure most people would. Because if Micro**** took over, we would see a bazillion ritalen-taking kids roaming around. And the game will be sharded with no more than 1000+ people per shard and you will be able to grind for 2 months to be able to fly a Titan.
Thus giving those of us who like a CHALLENGE nowhere to go but to leave EVE and go play another MMO with a challenge...not that we have much choice tbh with all the WoW-like subhuman crap out there.
And the game will run 3 times as laggy. Gauranteed.
But nontheless, I don't see CCP/White Wolf giving up their independence and originality just to make a few extra bucks. After all, they aren't a typical corporation. Besides, I don't see Oveur and company giving up their beer just to suck M$'s teets....
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Arvald
Caldari
House of Tempers
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Posted - 2007.10.12 14:04:00 -
[30]
Originally by: Motokko
Microsoft Eve Online has encountered a problem
you win the entire internet for today
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Avon
Caldari
Black Nova Corp
Band of Brothers
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Posted - 2007.10.12 14:06:00 -
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Eve Live! on the xbox 360.
The Battleships is not and should not be a solo pwnmobile - Oveur
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Kessiaan
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Posted - 2007.10.12 14:08:00 -
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I can think of worse companies to be bought by.
MS's track record, in general, is pretty solid. They didn't get to be monopolistic asshats by being stupid, you know.
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SirMoric
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Posted - 2007.10.12 14:09:00 -
[33]
Originally by: Motokko
Microsoft Eve Online has encountered a problem
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Gamer4liff
Caldari
Metalworks
THE INTERSTELLAR FOUNDRY
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Posted - 2007.10.12 14:10:00 -
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Originally by: Avon
Eve Live! on the xbox 360.
they would consolize/lobotomize eve so much it wouldn't even be recognizable afterwards =(.
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J'Mkarr Soban
Amarr
Shadows of the Dead
Aftermath Alliance
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Posted - 2007.10.12 14:14:00 -
[35]
Originally by: Arvald
Originally by: Motokko
Microsoft Eve Online has encountered a problem
you win the entire internet for today
Seconded!
Genius.
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NightmareX
Infinitus Odium
The Church.
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Posted - 2007.10.12 14:14:00 -
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Edited by: NightmareX on 12/10/2007 14:14:52
The day Microsoft buys up CCP (if they do) i will quit EVE, because EVE will never be EVE without CCP.
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Haerana
The Republican Guard
The Sundering
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Posted - 2007.10.12 14:15:00 -
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Originally by: Swatcat
Edited by: Swatcat on 12/10/2007 13:33:53
I really hope they don't, I run primarily under Linux with the Transgaming engine, I am looking forward to CCP supporting a Linux client.
Swat
HOLY **** i have been trying to work out what program it was i had faint memories of for years! It was Swatcats. FUDGING AWESOME.
man i loved that show!
On topic: MS can suck a fat 1
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The Cake is a Lie
The Cake is a Lie
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Kaahles
Decadence.
RAZOR Alliance
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Posted - 2007.10.12 14:20:00 -
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Originally by: NightmareX
Edited by: NightmareX on 12/10/2007 14:14:52
The day Microsoft buys up CCP (if they do) i will quit EVE, because EVE will never be EVE without CCP.
/signed
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Kuolematon
Space Perverts and Forum Warriors United
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Posted - 2007.10.12 14:24:00 -
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I already canceled all my 14 accounts and my cousins dogs 8 goon accounts. Enjoy you fcking CCP!
It's great being Amarr isn't it.
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Swatcat
xtort
Rare Faction
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Posted - 2007.10.12 14:29:00 -
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It's a shame that they STILL don't have plans to release 'The Swatcats' series on dvd, well last time I heard they didn't. I agree it was an excellent series... We need to start a campaign to get that returned to TV :)
Swat
Originally by: Haerana
Originally by: Swatcat
Edited by: Swatcat on 12/10/2007 13:33:53
I really hope they don't, I run primarily under Linux with the Transgaming engine, I am looking forward to CCP supporting a Linux client.
Swat
HOLY **** i have been trying to work out what program it was i had faint memories of for years! It was Swatcats. FUDGING AWESOME.
man i loved that show!
On topic: MS can suck a fat 1
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Twin blade
Minmatar
The Triangle
Exa Nation
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Posted - 2007.10.12 14:35:00 -
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IF MS take over CCP i would delete my account as eve would die right there and then.
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Allan Robertson
Gallente
Azure Horizon
Coalition Of Empires
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Posted - 2007.10.12 14:38:00 -
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Edited by: Allan Robertson on 12/10/2007 14:38:35
Edited by: Allan Robertson on 12/10/2007 14:38:10
CCP is now Microsoft... I would die a little the day that happened. I mean can you see StEVE Ballmer giving one of his methamphetamine educed speeches at the fanfest?!
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THCS
Imperium Technologies
Firmus Ixion
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Posted - 2007.10.12 14:41:00 -
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Originally by: Kessiaan
I can think of worse companies to be bought by.
MS's track record, in general, is pretty solid. They didn't get to be monopolistic asshats by being stupid, you know.
I'll still never forgive them for buying bungie and scrapping halao as a pc game and just releasing it for consoles, I remember seeing a movie on bungie making Halo before MS grabbed them and all the stuff they were going to do.
However as someone said could be worse EA anyone?
Eve its all in the game.
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Soy Black
Gallente
TalCorp Enterprises
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Posted - 2007.10.12 14:42:00 -
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Meh - if MS bought it - I wouldn't be as worried about it as someone like SOE taking it.
SOE would ruin it 100%. SWG anyone? (They MAY actually save Vanguard - yet to be seen - but they are more capable than the programmers Sigil had... which is really sad for Sigil to say lol...)
I play on a mac - so you know how much I would like to se MS keep their hands off of CCP - but with what they are doing with XBOX live and their developer kits - (C# and the game studio) they seem to be more open than other game companies to what the people develop. IF - and this is 100% speculation at this point - IF MS bought CCP - they would likely keep the game as is and keep the development as it - they would likely want to buy it for the technology that has been developed by CCP...
It's no Secret they have been wanting to get into the MMO market - but with the fallout of VG and Age of Conan being the only mmo coming out that will be windblows and xbox360 - they might be considering more directions... makes sense to me.
BUT - if SOE or EA were to purchase...
/cancel all account /middle finger
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Lagerstars
Caldari
Murky Inc.
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Posted - 2007.10.12 14:45:00 -
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Eugh, i really hope this isnt true and they dont get there hands on something else to ruin!!!
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Empyre
Domestic Reform
Interstellar Starbase Syndicate
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Posted - 2007.10.12 14:47:00 -
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i pray this isn't EVER so. after purchasing both vista 64 and 32 bit discs and realizing they will only let me activate one copy unless i buy another cd key i say no. no. no.
stay away from this game MS. and CCP, please NEVER become a large company or part of one. the bureaucracy and disconnect from the customer that results inevitably is unbearable and will surely mark the end of days for eve.
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James Don
KDM Corp
Firmus Ixion
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Posted - 2007.10.12 14:50:00 -
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Originally by: CCP Wrangler
Anything is possible I guess, but I haven't heard anything like this, and it doesn't feel like something our leadership would plan for CCP's future.
I hope not.
Am I right in believing that CCP is totally privatly owned so theres no way they could force a sale of CCP?
I really hope this dosent happen, to see such a dedicated team of enthusiasts and people who love a game stripped to the bare minimum for profitabilty and forced to meet impossible targets would be a shame.
EVE isn't designed to just look like a cold, dark and harsh world, it's designed to be a cold, dark and harsh world. - Wrangler |
Kastar
Memphis Technologies
Intergalactic Brotherhood
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Posted - 2007.10.12 14:54:00 -
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Originally by: Taedrin
Originally by: Avon
You can not initiate warp because you are warp scrambled
|IGNORE| ________ |RETRY| ________ |ABORT|
It's Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail
not ignore retry abort =)
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Phunotos
Minmatar
Tau Ceti Global Production
Knights Of the Southerncross
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Posted - 2007.10.12 14:59:00 -
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Originally by: Soy Black
Meh - if MS bought it - I wouldn't be as worried about it as someone like SOE taking it.
SOE would ruin it 100%. SWG anyone? (They MAY actually save Vanguard - yet to be seen - but they are more capable than the programmers Sigil had... which is really sad for Sigil to say lol...)
I play on a mac - so you know how much I would like to se MS keep their hands off of CCP - but with what they are doing with XBOX live and their developer kits - (C# and the game studio) they seem to be more open than other game companies to what the people develop. IF - and this is 100% speculation at this point - IF MS bought CCP - they would likely keep the game as is and keep the development as it - they would likely want to buy it for the technology that has been developed by CCP...
It's no Secret they have been wanting to get into the MMO market - but with the fallout of VG and Age of Conan being the only mmo coming out that will be windblows and xbox360 - they might be considering more directions... makes sense to me.
BUT - if SOE or EA were to purchase...
/cancel all account /middle finger
Microsoft has been in the MMO department for a long long time... Asheron's Call anyone? which reminds me i need to run tapers / plats to the mage ;)
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SexxxSlave
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Posted - 2007.10.12 15:06:00 -
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Originally by: MotherMoon
errrr... Iceland.... America...
connect the dots... oh wait there is a world in between them.
since when does mileage between offices make a difference in the business world??? You are a very uneducated poster.
While I do not believe this buyout story about M$ buying CCP is true, you surely dont understand the way business works. Japanese companies have been bought by American Companies, and vice versa, why would it be any different with a Seattle based company buying out an Icelandic company? You're a tard, and should really should refrain from making yourself look like a jackass. |
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Leandro Salazar
The Blackguard Wolves
Knights Of the Southerncross
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Posted - 2007.10.12 15:07:00 -
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This is another very good reason for devs to actually play their own game. If the people that have to decide these things play and love EVE, they will NEVER sell out 
There is no 'n' in turret
There is no 'r' in faction
There is no 'a' in Scorpion
There is no 'e' in Caldari
There is no makeup in rogue drones |
Andargor theWise
Collateral Damage Unlimited
Interstellar Alcohol Conglomerate
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Posted - 2007.10.12 15:15:00 -
[52]
Originally by: Motokko
Microsoft Eve Online has encountered a problem
Should have been "Something Happened", but good show nonetheless.
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Andicuri Vas
Gallente
MetaForge
Ekliptika
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Posted - 2007.10.12 15:17:00 -
[53]
Originally by: Allan Robertson
Edited by: Allan Robertson on 12/10/2007 14:38:35
Edited by: Allan Robertson on 12/10/2007 14:38:10
CCP is now Microsoft... I would die a little the day that happened. I mean can you see StEVE Ballmer giving one of his methamphetamine educed speeches at the fanfest?!
lol.....worth a repeat:
Developers
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Fink Angel
Caldari
The Merry Men
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Posted - 2007.10.12 15:18:00 -
[54]
Originally by: Motokko
Microsoft Eve Online has encountered a problem
I endorse the other comments. You have won gold medal in the Internet forum olympics today!
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Antonia Frak
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Posted - 2007.10.12 15:20:00 -
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The day CCP sells to EA, MS, SOE or any other crappy money bugger-game destroyer mega corporation is the day I'll click cancel. I don't think CCP needs to be sold to anyone, it seems to be doing fine by their own.
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Shar'Tuk TheHated
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Posted - 2007.10.12 15:22:00 -
[56]
Originally by: CCP Wrangler
Anything is possible I guess, but I haven't heard anything like this, and it doesn't feel like something our leadership would plan for CCP's future.
I hope this doesnt happen, I like playing EvE.
DRINK RUM It fights scurvy & boosts morale!
THE BEATINGS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES! |
Argenton Sayvers
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Posted - 2007.10.12 15:26:00 -
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I would have corrected that:
Originally by: Avon
You can not initiate warp because you are warp scrambled
|IGNORE| ________ |RETRY| ________ |ABORT|________[WHINE ON FORUMS]
But it has already been done ...
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SexxxSlave
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Posted - 2007.10.12 15:35:00 -
[58]
Originally by: Arvald
Originally by: Motokko
Microsoft Eve Online has encountered a problem
you win the entire internet for today
while that pic IS pretty funny...what makes that ANY different than the current Eve situation? CCP or MS, the forum will always have its whiners.... |
Kleus Flek
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Posted - 2007.10.12 15:43:00 -
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Please for the love of chocolate let this be a baseless rumor. After seeing the downfall of so many MMO's by ubergreedy companies like Micro$oft, I couldn't bring myself to play Eve after they took over.
I'd switch over to Linux completely if software dev's would make more Linux based stuff. Win emulators are the devil too, so skip them.
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Posted - 2007.10.12 15:50:00 -
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Originally by: Andicuri Vas
Originally by: Allan Robertson
Edited by: Allan Robertson on 12/10/2007 14:38:35
Edited by: Allan Robertson on 12/10/2007 14:38:10
CCP is now Microsoft... I would die a little the day that happened. I mean can you see StEVE Ballmer giving one of his methamphetamine educed speeches at the fanfest?!
lol.....worth a repeat:
Developers
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That would be so cool!! You guys think we could get him to come even though they're not buying us?
Wrangler
Community Manager
EVE Online
Contact Support - Contact Moderators - Report Bug - Submit News Leads - Knowledge Base
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Vim
Foundation
R0ADKILL
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Posted - 2007.10.12 15:54:00 -
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I'am looking forward for the enhanced *nix support so that I may shelf my MS dependence totaly. A change like this would actually have me consider writting a post where the first one asking 'can I have your stuff?' would receive it ^_^
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Faith Black
Minmatar
Rolls Roids
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Posted - 2007.10.12 15:55:00 -
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I hope not, I don't plan to update to Vista anytime soon, like some of the latest games that they made DX-10/Vista-only to get people to upgrade their systems.
Guess the old client would be stopped.
Besides that they wouldn't understand the eve community anyway. I'd need a new mmorpg, because they'd probably screw up pvp, piracy, the whole harshness of eve and that way everything this eve-society is build on.
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Paradox v2.0
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Posted - 2007.10.12 15:58:00 -
[63]
/me thinks someone is pulling your chain.
Think of like this: At lease EA isn't buying EVE.
Oh, in worse news: Ea IS buying Bioware 
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Isyel
Minmatar
Uninvited Guests
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Posted - 2007.10.12 16:00:00 -
[64]
Originally by: Snake Doctor
/me thinks someone is pulling your chain.
Think of like this: At lease EA isn't buying EVE.
Oh, in worse news: Ea IS buying Bioware
Yeah.
it won't happen, but even if it did, microsoft is waaaay better than EA. 
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Paulo Damarr
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Posted - 2007.10.12 16:01:00 -
[65]
Look what MS games did to freelancer, The game was designed to be a lot more than it was then MS games bought Digital anvil and then butchered the game into a third of what it should have been and half the development team "left" Digital anvil.
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Khes
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Posted - 2007.10.12 16:09:00 -
[66]
Originally by: MotherMoon
... did Steve tell you that?
(yeah I can't spell)
Flight of the Conchordes perhaps?
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Snake Doctor
Paradox v2.0
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Posted - 2007.10.12 16:09:00 -
[67]
Originally by: Isyel
Originally by: Snake Doctor
/me thinks someone is pulling your chain.
Think of like this: At lease EA isn't buying EVE.
Oh, in worse news: Ea IS buying Bioware
Yeah.
it won't happen, but even if it did, microsoft is waaaay better than EA.
Fortunately for anyone that MS buys, they get to keep their staff if they are good at it. AFAIK Jason Jones has been head of Bungie forever, and they will become an independent again very soon, but on a contract basis with MS.
Think about it rationally- EA pumps out crappy games from crappy dev teams that never update because they are busy working on the next money maker. Ms actually keeps devs working on the same project well after a successful launch.
MS may be evil, but they suck a whole lot less than EA.
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nightslasher
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Posted - 2007.10.12 16:13:00 -
[68]
Originally by: Hybrid Horror
Edited by: Hybrid Horror on 12/10/2007 13:27:54
Hi
I have heard rumours from a Microsoft UK employee that they are looking at buying CCP, the reasoning behind this is that the company is profitable and gives them access to new MMORG technology.
Has anyone else heard this? Before I get flamed to hell about this, this is WHAT I HAVE BEEN TOLD from a reliable source and no I don't have proof atm.
HH
This has got to be the best troll I've seen in a long time.
Not gonna happen.
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Vyyrus
An Eye For An Eye
Rule of Three
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Posted - 2007.10.12 16:55:00 -
[69]
This would be the end of eve as we know it. When in this life time has MS ever made an mmorpg? I mean I now they are a software giant but look what they turned XP into (talking about vistacrap). When they could of just improved over XP itself.
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Amira Silvermist
The Aegis Militia
Aegis Militia
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Posted - 2007.10.12 17:03:00 -
[70]
Originally by: CCP Wrangler
That would be so cool!! You guys think we could get him to come even though they're not buying us?
Yea, Ballmer knows how to party... 
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Montague Zooma
Imperial Dreams
Curatores Veritatis Alliance
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Posted - 2007.10.12 17:20:00 -
[71]
I've had dinner with Steve Ballmer. Nice guy. No screaming. He didn't even throw a chair at me.
If CCP's owners could make a killing selling out to MS or anyone else while screwing over the players in the process...you gotta admit it would be in keeping with the spirit of this game. Pwned!
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Darklorden
Minmatar
Sebiestor tribe
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Posted - 2007.10.12 17:24:00 -
[72]
This could just be a tester to see how the playerbase would react if Micro$crap took over.
Personally I'd linger around until the pink spacebunnies got introduced by the "creative" devs of MS. Which they probably would in their drive to make this a more streamlined game and thus attempt to get more subscribers.
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zilllii
Squirrel Power
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Posted - 2007.10.12 17:33:00 -
[73]
Originally by: Allan Robertson
Edited by: Allan Robertson on 12/10/2007 14:38:35
Edited by: Allan Robertson on 12/10/2007 14:38:10
CCP is now Microsoft... I would die a little the day that happened. I mean can you see StEVE Ballmer giving one of his methamphetamine educed speeches at the fanfest?!
Foot in mouth outbreak discovered in Iceland
Ballmer speaks.
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zibelthurdos
Archron Dusyfe Industries
Pandemic Legion
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Posted - 2007.10.12 17:58:00 -
[74]
the thing is.. even if microsoft did buy CCP what's the big deal. its not like they wouldn't also dump this one in a few years.
like asherons call and halo.
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Hamfast
Gallente
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Posted - 2007.10.12 17:59:00 -
[75]
I can think of worse people then Microsoft to sell out to...
I know I can...
can I get back to you with the name???
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Posted - 2007.10.12 18:00:00 -
[76]
Your friend from the UK has it the wrong way around.
Coincidentally, I'm selling tin foil hats at reduced prices.
~ Prism X
EvE 1337 Database Developer,
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Kirjava
Lothian Quay Industries
Zzz
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Posted - 2007.10.12 18:04:00 -
[77]
Originally by: CCP Prism X
Your friend from the UK has it the wrong way around.
Coincidentally, I'm selling tin foil hats at reduced prices.
You mean that Subscription revenue has been diverted from fixing lag, desync issues and myriad of other flame fuel to purchasing a majority control shares in Microsoft?
Damn you guys have more style than those chaps running the Hitchhikers Guide company in the book
Originally by: CCP Morpheus
Post with your alt.
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Swatcat
xtort
Rare Faction
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Posted - 2007.10.12 18:10:00 -
[78]
Do you do a bulk discount on the tin foil hats?
Swatcat
Originally by: Kirjava
Originally by: CCP Prism X
Your friend from the UK has it the wrong way around.
Coincidentally, I'm selling tin foil hats at reduced prices.
You mean that Subscription revenue has been diverted from fixing lag, desync issues and myriad of other flame fuel to purchasing a majority control shares in Microsoft?
Damn you guys have more style than those chaps running the Hitchhikers Guide company in the book
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zibelthurdos
Archron Dusyfe Industries
Pandemic Legion
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Posted - 2007.10.12 18:20:00 -
[79]
Originally by: CCP Prism X
Your friend from the UK has it the wrong way around.
Coincidentally, I'm selling tin foil hats at reduced prices.
OMG does that mean we will finally be able to GANK Lusers who call with stupid questions?...
Drool..
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Gigistine
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Posted - 2007.10.12 18:23:00 -
[80]
Yes, Microsoft is in fact buying CCP. And if you send this info in an email to everyone in your address book they will pay you $25 for each email you send. Look for the check at the end of the month.
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Soy Black
Gallente
TalCorp Enterprises
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Posted - 2007.10.12 18:23:00 -
[81]
Originally by: Phunotos
Originally by: Soy Black
Meh - if MS bought it - I wouldn't be as worried about it as someone like SOE taking it.
SOE would ruin it 100%. SWG anyone? (They MAY actually save Vanguard - yet to be seen - but they are more capable than the programmers Sigil had... which is really sad for Sigil to say lol...)
I play on a mac - so you know how much I would like to se MS keep their hands off of CCP - but with what they are doing with XBOX live and their developer kits - (C# and the game studio) they seem to be more open than other game companies to what the people develop. IF - and this is 100% speculation at this point - IF MS bought CCP - they would likely keep the game as is and keep the development as it - they would likely want to buy it for the technology that has been developed by CCP...
It's no Secret they have been wanting to get into the MMO market - but with the fallout of VG and Age of Conan being the only mmo coming out that will be windblows and xbox360 - they might be considering more directions... makes sense to me.
BUT - if SOE or EA were to purchase...
/cancel all account /middle finger
Microsoft has been in the MMO department for a long long time... Asheron's Call anyone? which reminds me i need to run tapers / plats to the mage ;)
Your right... Forget about that game. :P
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Jimer Lins
Gallente
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Posted - 2007.10.12 18:24:00 -
[82]
Originally by: Kaahles
Originally by: NightmareX
Edited by: NightmareX on 12/10/2007 14:14:52
The day Microsoft buys up CCP (if they do) i will quit EVE, because EVE will never be EVE without CCP.
/signed
ms "destroys" every game they put their hands on :/
Like Halo, Privateer and BioShock?
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CCP Prism X
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Posted - 2007.10.12 18:28:00 -
[83]
Originally by: Gigistine
Yes, Microsoft is in fact buying CCP. And if you send this info in an email to everyone in your address book they will pay you $25 for each email you send. Look for the check at the end of the month.
And make sure they pass it around to everyone in their address book and stipulate they're not to delete the email addresses from anyone in the resulting chain of replies. Then when you get it sent back to you after a couple of months forward the list of email addresses.. erm.. signatures... or something... to [email protected]
..I promise I'll donate *some* of the profits to.. erm.. my bank.. in the form of paid interests. Yeah!
~ Prism X
EvE 1337 Database Developer,
Relocating your character to a cozy, giant secure container since 2006. |
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Lazuran
Gallente
Time And ISK Sink Corporation
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Posted - 2007.10.12 18:29:00 -
[84]
Originally by: Hybrid Horror
Edited by: Hybrid Horror on 12/10/2007 13:27:54
Hi
I have heard rumours from a Microsoft UK employee that they are looking at buying CCP, the reasoning behind this is that the company is profitable and gives them access to new MMORG technology.
Has anyone else heard this? Before I get flamed to hell about this, this is WHAT I HAVE BEEN TOLD from a reliable source and no I don't have proof atm.
HH
Would be a funny way to avoid having to fix the MS SQL issues CCP is suffering from.
isn't it funny how some people advocate both GTC<=>ISK trades and EVE being superior due to its cruelty and costly losses, when they use the former to circumvent the latter?
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Prizecheck
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Posted - 2007.10.12 18:34:00 -
[85]
Well, the only think i like about MS would be thier funds for a much better server and some costumised software. But do not worry, if anything bad happens, MS will learn about internets warfare from the majority of goons that will make MS's sites thier target
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Adonis 4174
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Posted - 2007.10.12 18:34:00 -
[86]
I heard a rumour recently that Blizzard were buying CCP.
I got the joke.
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Magunus
The Arrow Project
Morsus Mihi
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Posted - 2007.10.12 18:41:00 -
[87]
Originally by: Motokko
Microsoft Eve Online has encountered a problem
Oh, god, I pee'd a little.
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Gort
Storm Guard Elite
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Posted - 2007.10.12 18:57:00 -
[88]
Please, God, no....
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Posted - 2007.10.12 19:19:00 -
[89]
I'm a bit ignorant when it comes to the business world and its workings, but let me get this straight:
If a rich company such as Microsoft wants to buy another company such as CCP, is there no defence for the buyee? If MS attempted to buy-out/take over a smaller company, couldn't said company just say "Screw off, we want our independance"? Or is the lesser company forced to concede to the hostile takeover?
A little drunken rant: Wouldn't the banning of non-consentual mergers eliminate that whole nasty side-effect of capitalism known as monopolies? I'm obviously missing something important here, because in the US, Americans seem to have to put up with Comcast's shenanigans despite their desires.
Originally by: Slayton Ford
a Drake is normally primaried last
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Jimer Lins
Gallente
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Posted - 2007.10.12 19:27:00 -
[90]
It would depend on if the company was publicly traded or not, as far as I'm aware CCP is a privately held company under the laws of Iceland, which would mean any sale to another entity would be entirely at the CCP leadership's discretion.
If the company in question is publicly traded and the buyer can acquire enough of the outstanding stock then yes, the "ownership" (such things don't mean the same thing as owning a car or a computer) changes. That's not at issue here, though.
In the end, Microsoft doesn't do hostile takeovers; they don't need to.
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0utbreak
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Posted - 2007.10.12 20:16:00 -
[91]
I guess if MS really wanted to buy CCP they could do it. It would have to be a friendly take over since I think CCP is privatly owned. I'm sure if bill gates walked into CCP's headquarters and dropped a check for a billion dollars on the desk CCP would get real friendly. Just think about all the whinny petitions that they wouldnt have to listen to anymore and all the smacktards on the forums that know best how to run their game.
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Shalia Ripper
Caldari
High4Life
SMASH Alliance
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Posted - 2007.10.12 20:29:00 -
[92]
Originally by: Montague Zooma
I've had dinner with Steve Ballmer. Nice guy. No screaming. He didn't even throw a chair at me.
If CCP's owners could make a killing selling out to MS or anyone else while screwing over the players in the process...you gotta admit it would be in keeping with the spirit of this game. Pwned!
I bet dinner was babies with a side of deep fried baby seal all washed down with a fresh decanter of virgin blood.
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Twin blade
Minmatar
The Triangle
Exa Nation
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Posted - 2007.10.12 20:48:00 -
[93]
Edited by: Twin blade on 12/10/2007 20:49:08
Edited by: Twin blade on 12/10/2007 20:48:05
EA would destroy this game in seconds thats for sure.(there game's are so bad i would not download them if i was in to that)
Blizzard would turn it in WOW and add space elf's but you would see walking in a starbase faster as they push hard to get 13 year's olds loging in to jack off form a space elf.
SOE yer SWG but that game was based off a poor set of movie's and was crap any way best thing they did was to destroy it.
MS just most likey dumb it down so much it would be like playing hello kitty online with guns that do 0.1 cuteness damage. Halo is not that good http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/editorials/zeropunctuation/2304-Zero-Punctuation-Halo-3
Over all there is no one i would trust other than CCP to run this game well as long as they lock the nerf bat up.
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fire 59
Destructive Influence
Band of Brothers
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Posted - 2007.10.12 20:49:00 -
[94]
Sadly, if this happened, i would probably find myself leaving the game that i have grown to love. Friend and foe alike . 
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Aaron
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Posted - 2007.10.12 21:13:00 -
[95]
i thought ccp already had links with microsoft?, im sure i read that somewhere in 2003
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Marcus Druallis
Quantum Industries
Interstellar Alcohol Conglomerate
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Posted - 2007.10.12 21:16:00 -
[96]
Originally by: MotherMoon
wait are you for real? where did you hear such a impossibleness hypothesis... did Steve tell you that?
(yeah I can't spell)
This man wins life.
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Kirjava
Lothian Quay Industries
Zzz
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Posted - 2007.10.12 21:31:00 -
[97]
Originally by: Marcus Druallis
Originally by: MotherMoon
wait are you for real? where did you hear such a impossibleness hypothesis... did Steve tell you that?
(yeah I can't spell)
This man wins life.
Sorry, this man wins.
Originally by: CCP Morpheus
Post with your alt.
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Durethia
Momentum.
The Reckoning.
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Posted - 2007.10.12 21:36:00 -
[98]
Originally by: CCP Wrangler
Anything is possible I guess, but I haven't heard anything like this, and it doesn't feel like something our leadership would plan for CCP's future.
And I hope greed does not come into consideration if such a large entity should approach CCP. I believe, CCP is profitable as it stands, and from the looks of it, everybody is doing very well.
EVE is no doubt your baby, and much enjoyed and cherished amongst many people. What CCP has here, is similar to what Apple has. More than a business minded customer base, but a sentimental following that will keep you afloat, as Macintosh fans kept Apple afloat through all the years; of which, every year supposedly Apple was going out of business but never even came close.
The moment, CCP forfeits it's assets and wealth to a larger entity, it surrenders it's possibility of ever becoming such an entity itself.
The following is extremely valuable and important to consider CCP. One day, kids will flock to something else, and many workers currently working on WarCraft will either move to other projects or get fired. CCP will never be in such a position, where your boon becomes bane on account of ever changing socio-economic trends. This is the appeal and security found in ALL niche markets.
Please, keep doing what you're doing, and do NOT regard any deals that might put authority over your heads. CCP is my company, EVE-ONLINE is my game. And no, no one else can have my stuff.
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Posted - 2007.10.12 22:09:00 -
[99]
Originally by: Hybrid Horror
access to new MMORG technology.
lol? ccp is using the most outdated technology ever. they don't even have dinamic clusters yet (read dev blog "we're looking forward into implementing this soon") which is a +-1999 technology
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Stan Torres
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Posted - 2007.10.12 22:09:00 -
[100]
Microsoft must be looking for ways to keep PC gaming viable for its operating system, lets face it if you could play EVE on a console most of us would buy one, but microsoft doesn't want keyboard/mouse for its console so it needs to shore up the pc gaming market because Sony are making keyboard/mouse viable for its PS3. Thats why microsoft are pushing Crysis as a DX10 game although they dont publish or develope it. Getting into the mmo market is another way to sell its operating system so I wouldn't be surprised if microsoft did buy an mmo developer with experience. It needs one because a big seller for PC's in the past was its games, but that is not so relevant now because consoles have caught up on the gfx front, but consoles at the moment cant compete with mmo's so maybe this is Microsofts strategy (in the near future) for advertising its operating system. I wouldn't mind Microsoft throwing money at CCP to continue improving EVE, as long as it meant no dumbing down of the game.
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Moghydin
Confederation of Red Moon
Red Moon Federation
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Posted - 2007.10.12 22:18:00 -
[101]
"Your ship has stopped responding. Please wait while MS Eve collects additional information."
Seriously though I think it never happens. Ms are not the company known for releasing quality bug-free software, just look at Vista.
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Chainsaw Plankton
IDLE GUNS
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Posted - 2007.10.12 22:20:00 -
[102]
Originally by: CCP Prism X
Your friend from the UK has it the wrong way around.
Coincidentally, I'm selling tin foil hats at reduced prices.
msn so we can work out a deal :-"
also next time i log in can i be in a giant secure container? preferably one that can undock and solopwn a titan
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Scorpyn
Caldari
Infinitus Odium
The Church.
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Posted - 2007.10.12 22:21:00 -
[103]
Edited by: Scorpyn on 12/10/2007 22:21:56
Originally by: Hybrid Horror
Edited by: Hybrid Horror on 12/10/2007 13:27:54
Hi
I have heard rumours from a Microsoft UK employee that they are looking at buying CCP, the reasoning behind this is that the company is profitable and gives them access to new MMORG technology.
Has anyone else heard this? Before I get flamed to hell about this, this is WHAT I HAVE BEEN TOLD from a reliable source and no I don't have proof atm.
HH
There is a pretty big difference between looking at possibly buying and making a decision to buy something. I do actually consider Microsoft buying CCP to be a possibility, but that is not something that I would like to happen. It is also note something that I believe will happen.
A bonus (and actually a major reason I think) is that they don't want more stuff available for linux.
Now, the reason why I doubt that it'd happen (even though I consider it to be possible) is the reason the devs started making the game in the first place, and the reason they bought it back after having sold the rights to it. They care about making good games, and I think they don't really care if someone wants to buy the company.
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Miranda Duvall
Gallente
OPM Holdings
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Posted - 2007.10.12 22:44:00 -
[104]
Originally by: Avon
You can not initiate warp because you are warp scrambled
|IGNORE| ________ |RETRY| ________ |ABORT|
Poem on annoyances.org
Found this gem years ago (in the days of windows 95):
Abort, Retry, Ignore?
Once upon a midnight dreary, fingers cramped and vision bleary,
System manuals piled high and wasted paper on the floor,
Longing for the warmth of bed sheets, still I sat there doing spreadsheets.
Having reached the bottom line I took a floppy from the drawer,
I then invoked the SAVE command and waited for the disk to store,
Only this and nothing more.
Deep into the monitor peering, long I sat there wond'ring, fearing,
Doubting, while the disk kept churning, turning yet to churn some more.
But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token.
"Save!" I said, "You cursed mother! Save my data from before!"
One thing did the phosphors answer, only this and nothing more,
Just, "Abort, Retry, Ignore?"
Was this some occult illusion, some maniacal intrusion?
These were choices undesired, ones I'd never faced before.
Carefully I weighed the choices as the disk made impish noises.
The cursor flashed, insistent, waiting, baiting me to type some more.
Clearly I must press a key, choosing one and nothing more,
From "Abort, Retry, Ignore?"
With fingers pale and trembling, slowly toward the keyboard bending,
Longing for a happy ending, hoping all would be restored,
Praying for some guarantee, timidly, I pressed a key.
But on the screen there still persisted words appearing as before.
Ghastly grim they blinked and taunted, haunted, as my patience wore,
Saying "Abort, Retry, Ignore?"
I tried to catch the chips off guard, and pressed again, but twice as hard.
I pleaded with the cursed machine: I begged and cried and then I swore.
Now in mighty desperation, trying random combinations,
Still there came the incantation, just as senseless as before.
Cursor blinking, angrily winking, blinking nonsense as before.
Reading, "Abort, Retry, Ignore?"
There I sat, distraught, exhausted, by my own machine accosted.
Getting up I turned away and paced across the office floor.
And then I saw a dreadful sight: a lightning bolt cut through the night.
A gasp of horror overtook me, shook me to my very core.
The lightning zapped my previous data, lost and gone forevermore.
Not even, "Abort, Retry, Ignore?"
To this day I do not know the place to which lost data go.
What demonic nether world us wrought where lost data will be stored,
Beyond the reach of mortal souls, beyond the ether, into black holes?
But sure as there's C, Pascal, Lotus, Ashton-Tate and more,
You will one day be left to wander, lost on some Plutonian shore,
Pleading, "Abort, Retry, Ignore?"
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Escape Cat
Federal Navy Academy
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Posted - 2007.10.12 22:46:00 -
[105]
Edited by: Escape Cat on 12/10/2007 22:46:23
Originally by: MotherMoon
wait are you for real? where did you hear such a impossibleness hypothesis... did Steve tell you that?
(yeah I can't spell)
If you choose to proceed you will indeed concede
Cos I hit you with my flow
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Eval B'Stard
Minmatar
Republic Military School
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Posted - 2007.10.12 22:46:00 -
[106]
Everyone here saying MS will totally mess up EvE if they bought up CCP.
Can I just say Freelancer ... arguable one of the top games of it's time (it's the game that got ME inot EvE, and I doubt I'm the only one) .... still is in fact ... and who was responsible for that one ?
Ohhh Ohhh it was Microsoft wasn't it 
Not that it will ever happen CCP wouldn't do such a thing, if they did it would mean that all the so called passion they have for the game is just bull****, which I'm sure it isn't.
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Posted - 2007.10.12 22:52:00 -
[107]
Edited by: Jiyec Demora on 12/10/2007 22:52:20
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Zeknichov
Life. Universe. Everything.
Hydra Alliance
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Posted - 2007.10.12 23:08:00 -
[108]
Edited by: Zeknichov on 12/10/2007 23:08:56
I really do not know enough about the subject but EVE is a well established MMOG and MS would not wan to tamper with EVE. If they were seriously interested in buying CCP it would be to produce their own MMOG using CCPs code or use the server technology that CCP employs with EVE for another MMOG. I don't see MS doing either of these things. MS usually buys companies that are in development of a game they think will do well. Which could mean they are interested in this white wolf MMOG. That would make sense and they would likely leave EVE alone.
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Eval B'Stard
Minmatar
Republic Military School
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Posted - 2007.10.12 23:11:00 -
[109]
Can you say Freelancer2 Online 
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Manic Smile
Tau Ceti Global Production
Knights Of the Southerncross
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Posted - 2007.10.13 03:49:00 -
[110]
Originally by: Jimer Lins
Edited by: Jimer Lins on 12/10/2007 18:33:36
Originally by: Kaahles
Originally by: NightmareX
Edited by: NightmareX on 12/10/2007 14:14:52
The day Microsoft buys up CCP (if they do) i will quit EVE, because EVE will never be EVE without CCP.
/signed
ms "destroys" every game they put their hands on :/
Like Halo, Privateer, BioShock (not theirs directly, but runs on their platforms only), Flight Simulator, etc?
MS has a half decent record of games, and has arguably the most successful video game in history on their hands with Halo 3. They're not exactly chumps in the gaming market.
yes because we all know how difficult shootem games are to make...
Lets Microsoft try to create another game with a little more thought involved then some twitch reactions. That said Flight Sim is awsome though a bit bloated and sadly I think I'll like BioShock better then Fallout 3 *tear*.
*courtesy of www.flickr.com
I hate the jpeg format.
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Dred'Pirate Jesus
Amarr
Ministry of War
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Posted - 2007.10.13 03:59:00 -
[111]
Well if M$ did buy out Eve then all those FPS junkies would probably get to use a joystick for their Interceptors.. That is if Eve was online long enough to actually log in and undock..
Originally by: David Hackworth
ň If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn't plan your mission properly.
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Mnengli Noiliffe
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Posted - 2007.10.13 05:38:00 -
[112]
this is what you get for releasing shares. R.I.P. EVE. should have though better I guess...
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Bacci Galu
Deep Core Mining Inc.
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Posted - 2007.10.13 05:39:00 -
[113]
Originally by: Motokko
Microsoft Eve Online has encountered a problem
lolz
Maker of thy sig
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Monkayy
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Posted - 2007.10.13 06:03:00 -
[114]
Why is everyone skirting around Freelancer ? .... could it be because it was a huge success .
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Marcus Starr
Chosen Path
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Posted - 2007.10.13 06:39:00 -
[115]
If EA can get their filthy hands on BioWare, then MS can get their hands on CCP.
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Serge Tahlon
Gallente
Templars of Space
Freelancer Alliance
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Posted - 2007.10.13 09:15:00 -
[116]
would have been more believable if they were interested because of the database infrastructure and expertise.
i doubt that a MMO with 200k subscribers would interest them. Surely in terms of gaming they are aiming higher.
good for us :D
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Taniquetil
Caldari
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Posted - 2007.10.13 09:49:00 -
[117]
Originally by: Bacci Galu
Originally by: Motokko
Microsoft Eve Online has encountered a problem
lolz
ROFL
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Jian Gi
Caldari
Deadly Addiction
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Posted - 2007.10.13 11:54:00 -
[118]
Edited by: Jian Gi on 13/10/2007 11:57:10
Edited by: Jian Gi on 13/10/2007 11:55:15
Guys I am not saying that Microsoft buying CCP is either bad/good, nor that it is impossible/possible.
(I happen to think that it could be both possible and good)
I can guarantee you though that there is ZERO chance that such a deal is happening now and it managed to leak ! The way the stock market works if that had happened they would all be exposed to lawsuits from their stockholders.
And I happen to know what I am talking about since my company is in the process of getting acquired right now :)
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Bimjo
Caldari
SKULLDOGS
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Posted - 2007.10.13 12:05:00 -
[119]
biggest clue is the new CCP offices in Atlanta, so so close to MS HQ , only 2700 miles away
seriously, I loved "Freelancer" by MS , but there were so many things they could have done to make it much much better and the support was abysmal for it, also MS forgot about Freelancer very very quickly
so do I want them to buy CCP ? if they invest miullions in Hardware and Software, yes
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Fuazzole
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Posted - 2007.10.13 12:11:00 -
[120]
Mircro soft buying CCP?, all hail legalise (micro-taxed) eBaying ISK!!!
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Selena Rayne
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Posted - 2007.10.13 12:18:00 -
[121]
Originally by: Eval B'Stard
Can you say Freelancer2 Online
Why take over CCP when they can make a Freelancer 2 MMO! It's pure win.
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Drenan
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Posted - 2007.10.13 12:36:00 -
[122]
MS would not buy CCP just for Eve...there would have to be a real incentive for them, like the white wolf MMO?
The reason that CCP (with Eve as it's main product) is still independent is that the subscriber base has a 'hard ceiling' ...you can only fit so many players onto a single shard server. Hence no-one has felt the need to 'acquire' the company because subscription growth is limited by the hardware.
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Bimjo
Caldari
SKULLDOGS
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Posted - 2007.10.13 15:35:00 -
[123]
Originally by: Drenan
subscription growth is limited by the hardware.
remember MS has deep pockets
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Toral Koerp
Damage Control Inc
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Posted - 2007.10.13 16:05:00 -
[124]
Originally by: Motokko
Microsoft Eve Online has encountered a problem
R O F L
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Tortun Nahme
Minmatar
Heimatar Services Conglomerate
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Posted - 2007.10.13 16:07:00 -
[125]
this just in, Microsoft has purchased the patent on pants, in order to make them appeal to more people they have simplified them and mass produced them using the cheapest possible materials, the resulting application means they have removed the legs for a simple single opening in the bottom to allow both legs to go through, so you no longer have to fight to get them on
*puts on his skirt*
You have reached your fail quota for the day, you may now stop posting.
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Death Kill
Caldari
direkte
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Posted - 2007.10.13 20:09:00 -
[126]
Microsoft buying EVE would lead to the playerbase numbers increasing a lot since MS would probably shard the server, remove ship loss when getting podded (respawn in station) and make all space between 0.1-1.0 totally safe. 0.0 would become the battle arena.
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Virida
Mindstar Technology
YouWhat
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Posted - 2007.10.13 20:27:00 -
[127]
Originally by: CCP Wrangler
Originally by: Andicuri Vas
Originally by: Allan Robertson
Edited by: Allan Robertson on 12/10/2007 14:38:35
Edited by: Allan Robertson on 12/10/2007 14:38:10
CCP is now Microsoft... I would die a little the day that happened. I mean can you see StEVE Ballmer giving one of his methamphetamine educed speeches at the fanfest?!
lol.....worth a repeat:
Developers
A
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That would be so cool!! You guys think we could get him to come even though they're not buying us?
For some reason, if Microsoft was a partner/investor or something, and ballmer was around, i get the idea some in ccp might propose doing that at fanfest, yea!
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Royaldo
Gallente
KVA Noble Inc.
Institute of Cooperative Education
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Posted - 2007.10.13 21:30:00 -
[128]
Originally by: MotherMoon
errrr... Iceland.... America...
connect the dots... oh wait there is a world in between them.
I love the internets.
wait are you for real? where did you hear such a impossibleness hypothesis... did Steve tell you that?
(yeah I can't spell)
steve is a horrible hip-hop name
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Sandslinger
NorCorp Security
Knights Of the Southerncross
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Posted - 2007.10.13 21:41:00 -
[129]
There is only one thing that would ever make me cancel my accounts, and that's if CCP sold out to MS.
lots of other things **** me off but EVE's about adapting so I do but paying monthly isk to MS umm not for me no
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Titus Lewis
Absolutely No Return
The Red Skull
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Posted - 2007.10.14 00:09:00 -
[130]
I, for one, welcome our new Microsoft overlords.
Freedom is Slavery
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Khatred
Fluffy Mungoose
Guinea Pigs
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Posted - 2007.10.14 01:28:00 -
[131]
Considering the path CCP is walking for the past 2 years, it won't make any difference if MS or EA or SOE bought them, they are in for the money and they want a lot. Voice, gtc's, the unique power of 2 repeatable ad infinitum and so on. However I doubt any of those forementioned want lazy coders 
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Mr M
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Posted - 2007.10.14 01:37:00 -
[132]
<sigh> I am just so late with this, but to my defense I actually made it a year ago.
http://www.evegeek.com/pics/mseve.jpg
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Wrayeth
Shiva
Morsus Mihi
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Posted - 2007.10.14 01:38:00 -
[133]
I would be extremely ****ed if Microsoft got their hands on CCP and EVE. Every game they touch gets utterly, royally screwed.
For instance, anyone seen a Mechwarrior game for the PC in recent years? Nope? That's because Microsoft currently holds the video game rights and aren't willing to make a PC game - they're more interested in putting out stuff for the xbox.
(I miss Mechwarrior.)
-Wrayeth
n00b Extraordinaire
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Rhedea
Aliastra
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Posted - 2007.10.14 20:34:00 -
[134]
Can't play EVE on a XBox, not going to happen. Nuff said!
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Ricky1989
Caldari
Battlestars
GoonSwarm
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Posted - 2007.10.14 20:38:00 -
[135]
If Micro$oft bought CCP, I'd kiss EVE-Online goodbye!
Love Ricky1989.
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Vrizuh
Eve Defence Force
Praesidium Libertatis
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Posted - 2007.10.17 00:42:00 -
[136]
Oooo, Freelancer2. I wish =(
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Tortun Nahme
Minmatar
Heimatar Services Conglomerate
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Posted - 2007.10.17 00:43:00 -
[137]
IT WAS ALMOST DEAD
then you posted
now you must die
I'm currently involved in medical research, concerning the therapuetic aspects of a swift kick in the rear
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Sharupak
Minmatar
Knights Of the Black Sun
Rule of Three
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Posted - 2007.10.17 01:23:00 -
[138]
Nah, that isnt microshmucks style. They would start working on a massive game and promise CCP a titanic portion of sales to develop a section large enough for CCP to take out several loans. But the contract will have several stipulations like a completion date. However, Microsoft will waffle on the source code needed to complete the project and then they will sue for rights from CCP for delaying the deadline and not meeting up with their end of the contract. The result of the lawsuit will disolve CCP and the company will be swallowed by micro*******.
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Technolisa
Amarr
Rage and Terror
Against ALL Authorities
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Posted - 2007.10.17 01:50:00 -
[139]
bluescreen inc
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Dao2SKP
Shillelagh Corp.
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Posted - 2007.10.17 02:09:00 -
[140]
While I respect that it's "what you heard" you need too take that "reliable source" out of there.
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Reven Darklight
256 FREELANCERS
Black Scope Project
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Posted - 2007.10.17 04:37:00 -
[141]
Originally by: Wrayeth
(I miss Mechwarrior.)
Amen i once went into my local computer shop and even asked about a Mech Warrior 5 and if it existed, they looked at me like i was dumb, and i cried.
Seriously though if MS were to buy CCP, i can't see them changing much if anything for us, the software might get an update, but i think it would be business as usual. There are probable as many cases as a company being bought out and then left alone to keep doing what it does as there are cases where companies have been bought out and pulled to pieces.
What i think might be interesting is if WW/CCP/MS got together over the next MMO to come out of iceland. MS provides the up to date software, CCP bring in the expertise of running an maintaining a MMO and WW brings its World of Darkness as a basis for the game.
And this might be how MS want to break into the MMO world, not with an existing game, but something new and with expertise and an already cult followings. which it might plan on trying to get EVE and WoDs cults together. WoD is already a really harsh world where dead is everywhere, that might appeal to some Eve players, plus run it on a skills bases system like Eve maybe.
Don't know but am interested to find out if CCP/WW work together.
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Law Enforcer
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Posted - 2007.10.17 05:19:00 -
[142]
I wouldn't care. as long as CCP doesn't get bought by EA I'm fine.
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Nizar
Foundation
R0ADKILL
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Posted - 2007.10.17 05:46:00 -
[143]
Originally by: CCP Wrangler
Anything is possible I guess, but I haven't heard anything like this, and it doesn't feel like something our leadership would plan for CCP's future.
now wait till they see the $$$. they will sell CCP to MS decoratively wrapped up ;-)
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gojwer
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Posted - 2007.10.17 07:52:00 -
[144]
Edited by: gojwer on 17/10/2007 07:53:17
the real problem is companies being sellouts. that and microsoft is the devil and B.G. needs to go back to hell.
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Bacci Galu
Eve Defence Force
Praesidium Libertatis
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Posted - 2007.10.17 08:08:00 -
[145]
Edited by: Bacci Galu on 17/10/2007 08:08:11
MS buying CCP ??....WhereTF do u guys get this crap from ??? really... drama queens
Maker of thy sig
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maria stallion
Destructive Influence
Band of Brothers
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Posted - 2007.10.17 08:16:00 -
[146]
if it was true then it would probally mean the end of eve as we know it.
prices are gonna rise, you have to have vista to play it and the quality of the game is probally gonna drop big time.
But it could be even worse, EA could try to buy ccp, then they will manage to kill the game withing a year like they did with bullfrog and westwood.
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Jiduh Dehan
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Posted - 2007.10.17 08:38:00 -
[147]
I wouldn't worry, I would worryabout the needed software/hardware sponsored by M$:
Trinity upgrade: Needs Windows Vista and Direct X10.1 to run.
Any more questions?
But we all speculate here. :)
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Dave White
Beagle Corp
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Posted - 2007.10.17 08:47:00 -
[148]
Originally by: Eval B'Stard
Can you say Freelancer2 Online
Ahhhh Freelancer....good memories.
Shame there will never be a sequal though 
Originally by: GM Tacgnol
Oveur descended from the heavens (also known as the second floor) and beat us all with his nerfbat.
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Dr Slaughter
Sebiestor tribe
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Posted - 2007.10.17 09:10:00 -
[149]
Originally by: Hybrid Horror
The comment was MADE by a Microsoft UK employee I know!
HH
God no. I hope your mate had either been out for a very long liquid lunch in Soho when they thought this idea up, or, someone put drugs in TVPs expresso machines
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Valan
Genco
Interstellar Alcohol Conglomerate
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Posted - 2007.10.17 10:55:00 -
[150]
Well on the positive side I would be better off.
No monthly payments and nice deal on a character *cough* sale *cough*
/start sig
I love old characters that post 'I've beeen playing the game three years' when I know their account has been sold on.
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Postlatta Mouseanon
Caldari
State War Academy
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Posted - 2007.10.17 11:43:00 -
[151]
Microsoft acquiring CCP meets one of my conditions for ditching EVE as a game.
It might seem whiny, but I do *everything* I can to vote with my money. I work very hard to avoid giving Microsoft any money.
Having been professionally in the "midst" of two Microsoft "business maneuvers", and seeing/living the damage of others, when Microsoft shows up on the scene with their fat wallet- I generally walk away.
Example #1: Apple Computer Inc.
Back when I worked closely with Apple, I had the wonderful experience of spending long stretches (weeks) of summer on the Infinite Loop. Years back while sitting in R&D 4 on the Apple campus, it was announced that Steve Jobs was returning as CEO. It was announced not long after that Microsoft was investing $150 million in Apple and continuing to develop Microsoft Office.
The lie: Microsoft saved Apple.
The truth: Apple had 4 Billion CASH in the bank. The deal was about some settlements and keeping Microsoft Office on the Mac.
The outcome: Internet Explorer was made the default web browser, and Cyberdog (Apple's excellent internet suite) was killed. Development of Apple's own office tools suffered.
Who lost: Apple users.
Example #2: ResNova
A small company called Resnova developed a little software package called Personal Web Sharing. However they also made an incredible software suite that allowed people to create and deploy their own personal "AOL-like" system. In fact, the Novalink Information server had TCP capability, the ability to handle USENET feeds, and SMTP e-mail in 1994. Many small companies based their business on this software.
Microsoft bought out Resnova to get their hands on Personal Web Sharing, killed the Novalink Professional Information Server, and shortly after rolled Personal Web Sharing into Internet Explorer for th Mac.
Outcome: Microsoft summarily killed a product which affected quite a few small businesses. Even though that product had apparently been profitable.
Who lost: Small specialized internet business.
Example #3: Bungie Software
Bungie, a Chicago based game studio, was acquired by Microsoft in summer 2000. Bungie, who owned the IP for a great many game franchises, wanted Microsoft's distribution- Microsoft wanted their intellectual property and to get their hands on an upcoming game called Halo.
Outcome: Microsoft stopped the development of Halo on the Mac (was to be a Mac first title), and developed it for X-Box instead with a 2001 release date. It was an X-Box exclusive. No PC version of Halo was available until 2003. All other software franchises made by Bungie were never developed further. The games Myth, Marathon, Oni, and Pathways into Darkness were never revisited. Microsoft proceeded to squeeze the last drop of blood out of Halo.
Who lost: Gamers.
Microsoft acquisitions tend to leave a bad flavor in my mouth. For good reasons.
Errors in the previous are due to memory.
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Lord Oz
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Posted - 2007.10.17 12:05:00 -
[152]
Originally by: SexxxSlave
Originally by: MotherMoon
errrr... Iceland.... America...
connect the dots... oh wait there is a world in between them.
since when does mileage between offices make a difference in the business world??? You are a very uneducated poster.
While I do not believe this buyout story about M$ buying CCP is true, you surely dont understand the way business works. Japanese companies have been bought by American Companies, and vice versa, why would it be any different with a Seattle based company buying out an Icelandic company? You're a tard, and should really should refrain from making yourself look like a jackass.
And your an ******* for trying to act mightier than thou **** on someone. Take your egotistical arogance somewhere else please.
Anywho yeah I would be VERY against Microcrap taking over CCP. Even though CCP cant realease somthing on time worth a damn ...... they usually deliver good stuff eventually =P.
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