EVE Online, the greatest, most open-lay sandbox MMO in the
world, and by far one of the most highly renowned and infamous games to ever
exist, will be getting its own comic series (slated to be published this winter).
In addition it will also be getting its own television series. Both adaptations
will focus on actual events that have happened in the game (which are
completely player driven and spontaneous events) with the actual characters
possibly even playing their own roles!
Unlike the comic adaptation, the television series has no
official release date. The EVE series will be directed by Baltasar Kormákur the same
man who directed The Deep, 2 Guns, and
Contraband.
While normally this might not be news-worthy, it’s the
nature of EVE Online to be completely player driven, and of the choice to use
that very nature to retell those player stories. An example of what I mean by “player
drive,” I’ll use the dissolution of the Band of Brothers alliance by Goonswarm.
The Mittani, a now-popular member of the EVE community, and
member of the Goonswarm Alliance’s BlackOps division (mind you that alliances
and alliance organization is all player formed and funded) infiltrated Band of
Brother (BoB), their sworn enemies in the EVE universe. Working his way up in
the ranks over the course of a year or so, he finally was given a position of significant
power. With this power in his grasp, he set his plan into motion; revealing his
true colors, he dissolved the BoB alliance, allowing his Goon comrades to
immediately invade the now unoccupied space. BoB, reeling and unable to form a
significant defense, were forced to pack up and leave. That day Goonswarm
became the largest alliance in the game, and to this day they are one of the
most dangerous groups in EVE.
The EVE IS REAL
trailer made by CCP is an example of a true story that was then used as propaganda.
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