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Baudolino
Gallente
Royal Crimson Lancers
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Posted - 2009.02.05 10:53:00 -
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Edited by: Baudolino on 05/02/2009 11:07:45
Personally i believe EVE-TV has a great potential both for CCP and for the eve community.
The following is a BRAINSTORMING concerning what EVE-TV COULD be. Please comment and follow up with suggestions and improvements.
(1) First i present a short introduction, after which i (2) follow up with an analysis of why EVE-TV failed. I will then (3) present my own suggestions for re-organizing EVE-TV.
1. After six years in EVE i find one thing to be true. Both the quality of CCP productions and community efforts have increased dramatically. When i started playing both CCP and the community made **** poor amature productions (and yes- that was what i thought 6 years ago).
Today, more and more productions rise above expectations and rise to the level of cinema quality trailers and quality television productions.
Below are some examples of what is being done by the community:
(remember to watch in either high qualty or HD)
Communty produced:
The Angel Cartel (Push Eject)
War has come to EVE
Tortuga
Goonswarm - propaganda
CCP production:
Quantum rise
Community humor production (too funny to ignore):
Goonswarm
BoB
**And of course there are the Clear Skies short movies**
Please don`t bash the movies or attack them. That is simply ignoring the effort gone into making them and is also ignoring the topic..
2. So what does the above have to do with EVE-TV? I`ll get to that shortly..
EVE-TV rose out of the alliance tournaments with which they did a great job and for which alone i would certainly pay a few dollars if i could download the broadcast.
EVE-TV did however fall through when they tried to be something more.
I) EVE-TV failed due to a descrepency between format and production and design.
-On one hand it was obvious through voice acting and production that they were mimicking the styles of professional news outlets (ex. BBC and CNN), while on the other hand their composure and clothing communicated eve-players.
II) While production effort and equipment again suggested mimicking professional news outlets, the design again communicated eve-players. Dull colours and a background that seemed stolen from the set of Stargate season 1 negated much of the potential.
III) It was boring.. I`m sorry to say it, but content wise the episodes were all over the place and much of what was broadcast was simply not entertaining or interesting (it doesn`t need to be both- but has to be at leat one or the other). Productions lacked a sense of coherency and purpose.
3. So what to do?
I believe EVE-TV could have a clear purpose that would generate both interest and viewers. Below are some results of my brainstorming:
I) Back to basics- EVE-TV should transmit alliance tournaments. Pre- and post-battle commentary and panel discussions were great and had high level of viewer friendliness. Combine that with battles in HD and you have a product.
But EVE-TV could be alot more:
II) Organizationally i would sort EVE-TV under Concord and rename it "New Eden Television" (NET)- it would be the media wing of Concord that all empires and alliances would refer to.
III) Interstellar correspondents would sort under NET as their investigative journalists. They would provide stories and footage (record battles and terrorist attacks etc etc for NET publication)
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Baudolino
Gallente
Royal Crimson Lancers
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Posted - 2009.02.05 10:54:00 -
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Edited by: Baudolino on 05/02/2009 11:12:36
Edited by: Baudolino on 05/02/2009 11:10:51
Edited by: Baudolino on 05/02/2009 11:06:56
IV) Publication of QEN would be through NET with mock press conferences in which the presenter would speak into microphones from all the major empires and alliances. On the website there should be links to political spin from the major entities of EVE.
V) NET would be a synergy between CCP and community. Rather than posting the QR trailer on eve website- it should first be made public through NET. The same goes for the coronation trailer and the likes. NET would be a meeting ground between the productions of CCP and the community in which only the highest value productions were expressed- be they goon propaganda videos or theatrical style videos.
Point is û NET would be an expression of what is EVE that could entertain and inform the players while also representing a more effective way of promoting the game outwards.
VI) NET would focus on in-game issues and maintain an in-game profile. In this perspective there would be little room for fanfest, but who knows.. it`s all about presentation..
VII) At the offset i would aim for one production per month and expand from there if there is a surplus of good content and if and when the cast are up to the challenge..
VIII) Video screens at gates would be linked to NET
IX) Maybe report on CSM meetings... Issue is same as for fanfest as in my perspective they would both be on the fringe of the NET perspective..
***Obviously this approach would hinge on the ability of the community to (1) deliver content and (2) for the interstellar correspondents to have so much journalistic integrity that players would be willing to inform NET of not only large coming fleet battles, but maybe also more mundane actions such as high-sec piracy, POS destruction and terrorism. Thus, Interstellar correspondents would be helpfull cameramen and writers both providing NET with content but maybe also sharing this with the corporations or alliances involved so that everyone can have greater access to footage valuable in the production of recruitment videos and propaganda.
Community and CCP productions have gone way beyond in quality what EVE-TV was providing. In many ways i think they started up in a time that bridged the old eve with the new eve, but never themselves managed the transition.
I hope EVE-TV returns and i hope that this time around the most is made of something that was and still is, a good and groundbreaking idea..
Thank you for reading this
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Elle Sont
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Posted - 2009.02.06 17:09:00 -
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It would be interesting to see, but it seems the attempt at serious eve-tv through jalipo was a money sink and besides there are more important things that need fixing then eve-tv.
cool vids in the links though..
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Jimmy Roan
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Posted - 2009.02.06 17:16:00 -
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Throwing away money on something the cheapskate players won't pay for isn't good business for CCP.
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Kyoko Sakoda
Caldari
Veto.
Veto Corp
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Posted - 2009.02.06 17:48:00 -
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Eve TV could be a lot of things. It could be an extension of dev blogs. It could be in-character news (think The Scope, but live action). It could be what it was before. I've already posted at length in the past about this.
However, there are financial and legal issues that stop these things from materializing. I'm pretty sure CCP would love to see a working Eve TV, but it takes incredible resources, which is why it was sawed down to a more financially and logistically manageable size.
Also, copyright. All of the content needs to be original or royalty-free. The manpower required for this in an expanded broadcast scenario is... well probably a good chunk of the content team as it is now, and CCP have to keep developing Eve.
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Alekseyev Karrde
Noir.
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Posted - 2009.02.06 18:12:00 -
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I'd love to see the dev blogs, trailers, and segments like the Nyx crashing into the station and the Amarr Heir fleet attacking the Gallente rolled into a broadcast style format.
Even if it was just a regularly/semi-regularly distributed download rather than a streaming site it'd be friggen great.
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