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First off, Eurogamer owes me the sum of $4 for a now ruined blueberry bagel with peanut butter and jelly on it (the organic kind). The more I consider publishing this article, the more I’ve been refreshing the page, staring at the calendar hoping that today is April 1st, or someone hacked Eurogamer’s website to [...]
Archive for the ‘Eve Online’ Category
Eve Online Heading To Japan Under Nexon
July 7th, 2011 
Omali Despite what some may like you to believe, the cultural differences between the East and West are astronomical, and nothing showcases these differences better than our choice in consumer goods. In the MMO sector, grind-based cutesy free to play cash shop MMOs tend to do better in the east while the west prefers less anime [...]
Week In Review: Butterfly In The Sky Edition
July 5th, 2011 Omali Given that today is Sunday July 5th and not a Tuesday, it must be time to put out the Week in Review completely on time, and that means another weekly topic to think about. Today I’d like to talk about NCsoft, namely the idea that they are this evil corporation that murders babies (metaphorically) and [...]
What Happened This Week: Macrotransaction Edition
June 27th, 2011 Omali I skipped This Week in Review last week because I only had three days worth of posts for the previous week. This week, I want to continue the Week in Review articles by starting out with a question, and it pertains to Star Wars Galaxies. It’s always a downer to hear that an MMO you [...]
CCP: For The Love Of God, Stop Digging!
June 26th, 2011 Omali One of the biggest elephants in the room these days, not just for EVE but for the gaming industry as a whole, is virtual goods sales and microtransactions. You could call it that, but let’s start at the beginning of this fiasco. Eve Online recently launched Incarna, an expansion pack that both CCP and the [...]
Eve Online: Nothing Micro About These Transactions…
June 22nd, 2011 Omali In an interview with Eurogamer back in October, Eve Online’s Tori Frans Olafsson stated that CCP was looking to introduce a cash shop, noting that any items added would be purely cosmetic. Now in June, CCP released the first phase of Incarna, bringing with it the Captains Quarters update, offering players the ability to buy [...]
Eve Online: Running The $40k for Charity
April 3rd, 2011 Omali Back in March, I talked about Eve Online’s PLEX for Good campaign, a long running series of events that has seen a sizable chunk donated to various charities over the past few years. In the latest, CCP had asked players to contract their PLEX to a specific character, who would then convert the PLEX into [...]
April Fool’s 2011 Roundup
April 1st, 2011 Omali April Fool’s is one of my favorite days of the year, because I love seeing what jokes companies will come up with, my personal favorite being Google’s yearly jokes. Today isn’t even over, and I think the award for the best joke goes to ArenaNet with Guild Wars, who not only created a trailer and page [...]
Eve Online: PLEX For Japan
March 14th, 2011 Omali Since the 8.9 magnitude earthquake the hit Japan this month, the outpour of support has been intense not only from gamers, but from the not-so-soulless entities that operate them. Already, we’ve seen responses from Square Enix (who are shutting down servers to consolidate energy), and Sony Online Entertainment, both companies of which will not be [...]
Hulkageddon 4 Kicks Off In Eve Online
February 20th, 2011 Omali Eve Online is a persistent world MMO where, short of exploiting bugs, a moral code is virtually nonexistent. Eve’s history has uncovered major ponzi schemes, illicit banks, corporate espionage on an enormous level, and more. The phrase to live by in Eve Online is “it may not be ethical, but it isn’t against the rules.” [...]
