Hulkageddon is one of my favorite MMO-related holidays, but a friend of mine recently asked: Omali, don’t you wish Hulkageddon would last forever? And I said no, friend who asks conveniently timed questions. Because then I wouldn’t be able to fully enjoy Hulkageddon. If you don’t know, Hulkageddon is a celebration in Eve Online where players are encouraged, and paid, to kill miners in massive quantities. Normally, Hulkageddon only lasts for a limited time each year, but in a post by Mittani on the Eve Online forums, Goonswarm intends on continuing to pay users for dead miners.
For every ten miners you kill, Goonswarm will pay you ten million ISK and one hundred million per ten exhumer. So far Hulkageddon has claimed more than eleven thousand ships and over two trillion in damages and twenty seven billion in rewards paid out.
Now Hulkageddon is a perfect example of emergent gameplay and capitalism at work in Eve Online. Now, Goonswarm pays people millions to destroy hulks, meaning more people are buying hulks to replace those that were destroyed. Can you imagine who is manufacturing the hulks that are being destroyed? Do you see how this comes around full circle?
(Source: Eve Online forums)
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