Eve Online FanFest 2007
Last year at the end of October I was transfixed as I watched parts of the Eve Online Fanfest on a player run TV station called Eve TV. It made my mind boggle that since 1992 or thereabouts when ' tinternet were young and the only thing you could download was grainy poor quality porn things had come so far so quickly.
Of course, being as porn was and is such a successful industry online, it doesn't take a genius to work out that the advancements made in streaming technology through porn have finally trickled out to gamers who advance the internet in their own way, by playing Massively Multiplayer Online games. Let's talk about other advancements in a bit.
One example is Eve Online, which I personally love. It has all the elements of a great game. It has a driving force behind it consisting of a brilliant team behind Hilmar Pétursson, CEO of CCP Games and the thousands of dedicated fans. It has dynamic developers who look for ways to make the game more fun.
At the FanFest in 2007, Reykjavik, Iceland, I got to meet some of the devs and GM's. My aim was to interview them, but with one thing or another I ended up recording the majority of the presentations instead.
Hilmar Pétursson, CEO of CCP Games announced in his presentation the desire to build one of the largest supercomputers with help from IBM, just to run EVE! That's what I call advancement.
Another enhancement is just how far we have come in MMO gaming, this was Halldor "prepH" Fannar's presentation that had a very poignant image of how far we had come and a tantalising glimpse of where the future lay.
Gamers truly drive technology but only if the company behind the game share that vision. CCP appear to do so, that's a good thing.
To hear some of the recordings I made at the FanFest, visit the following link:
