EVE Online Developers Help Player Make Fan Movie 56
Enfors writes "CCP, developers of the sci-fi MMOG EVE Online, continue to impress with their open attitude towards players. In a thread on the EVE forums, an EVE Online player named Dire Lauthris describes difficulties he was having while making a fan movie that would illustrate a portion of EVE Online's background story. To make it 'historically correct,' he contacted CCP, the developers, to check on some facts. Instead of threatening to sue him for infringing on their intellectual property, they ended up inviting him to their offices to set him up with better movie-making software than the one he was using. Also, they had an employee record the narrator voice for his movie. The movie is now finished and available online. Massively is running a related article about storytelling in EVE."
Re:Nice of the devs to do that but... (Score:3, Informative)
My guess (and I thought it was commonly believed) that the reason Square did that was because they were already making their own remake for the DS and they didn't want sales cannibalized.
Whether that's the real reason or not, I'd say that's a bad example of properties that are just being sat on, since well... it wasn't.
Re:Wait... what... I 'm confused (Score:3, Informative)
You are not their intended audience. At minimum, you need to have visited CCP's website once, and preferably tried the game.
Re:Not bad (Score:1, Informative)
It's already been done in EVE.
http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=783871
direct download (Score:3, Informative)