After two hours by shuttle, twelve hours by plane and an hour cab ride into the city, I've finally arrived in Reykjavik for this year's EVE Online Fanfest 2007, CCP's yearly get-together at the top of the world for players, developers, and nerdy press types like yours truly.
Though it's been awhile since I've been properly addicted to the game, infiltrating the ranks of surly space-farin' rebels and corporate masters reminds me of what I love about EVE -- these people take their gaming seriously. The stakes are much higher than successfully pulling off some 20-man raid and getting your Cloudsword of Valhallastrike or whatever -- there are politics, intrigue, and honest-to-God espionage going on. Truly epic stuff.
Attendence of this year's Fanfest is supposedly 'round a thousand or so, a great majority of that number being players. All the major corporations and alliances are represented, and players from all over have hopped the pond to be a part of this year's festivities. On this, the first day of Fanfest 2007, most everybody is content to pick up their swag bags, hobnob with corp and alliance buddies, sleep off the jet lag and bask in Iceland's God-forsaken winds that freeze the nipples right off of you. Things'll really start jumping tomorrow. For now: photos! Of note are some nigh-pornographic shots of my Fanfest press swag-bag, wherein I was gifted a pair of EVE Online-branded socks. Absolutely appropriate given the venue.
More updates forthcoming!
Contest:
9:58 AM on 11.01.2007
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I've always wanted to love Eve but never been able to devote enough of my gaming time solely to one game like that. Maybe now that I have two PCs...
Sorry, but if I want real life stresses and muggings I'll go to New York. I play games to PLAY, not get my ass handed to me because BoB decided they wanted a cut of my mining profits.
What, all 20 of them? Out of 100,000? It's not that bad, trust me, I play the shit. Most of those "playing-since-beta" vets are easy to take down cause they don't specialise like msot newer players do. They can do a lot of stuff decently, but a month of time and effort will be able to net you a kill against them. 2 frigates can take cap ships, it just takes a long, long, LONG while.
The main reason I love EvE is that it plays off a person's patience. If you have enough of it to get past the long, but not necessarily steep, learning curve, the game is really rewarding. Aaron, I am envious. Find the people responsible for EvE TV and slap em around a bit though, that shit needs polish.
I wish I had the money to go to that.
WTB Tech 3 stuff. So new it isn't even invented yet :)
What I would like to hear about is any fallout at the fanfest from the recent changes on Singularity ...
Beese-dad
When I quit they were starting to seed mods and limited tech 3 ship reprints... figured it had continued apace.