Seriously, I’m really curious who came up with the pricing for the items in the new Noble Exchange. Not only are the players’ jaws on the floor about this, but gaming media is all over this.

Don’t get me wrong, I can see the value in microtransactions for the MMO industry. Other games are making a mint off of selling people items and services for a few bucks here and there, but they sure didn’t get buy-in from players by selling virtual monocles for $70. Incarna, and subsequent immersion-oriented expansions to do more with our now-bodied avatars, will do well with properly managed microtransaction content, but pricing like this shows that someone over there at CCP doesn’t quite get it.

The new Tyrannis trailer’s pretty awesome. If you haven’t seen it yet, I recommend you do so immediately. Skip the IGN failgasm version and head to EVE-Files for the 720p version, crank the sound, and enjoy.

Just no rollback jokes.

Just fyi, I’ve been going back to the back-catalog of comics starting from the oldest ones and moving forward to the newer ones, putting them back online. I’m still not done, but it’s getting there, so thanks for being patient. :)

UPDATE: CCP has the high resolution version of the trailer available for download by clicking here. 1080p, here we come!

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So the new Dominion expansion was announced lately, apparently having a lot to do with sovereignty changes.  To that I say, thank GOD.

It really is something that’s needed in EVE.  That’s not to be all emo about the current state of affairs of course, just that the existing mechanics have proven to have issues when you look at it from a long-term perspective.  For those who have been involved in alliance wars you know what I speak of, but I suppose it depends on the role you’ve chosen to play in the grand scheme.

Anyway, lets wait and see what interesting things CCP has in store for us. :)

Strangely enough, doing laundry today.  Pretty lazy Sunday, orbiting a POS in my interceptor, baking bread, laundry, shooting neutrals…  you know, pretty typical EVE Sunday.

What the!  A new comic, no way!  Yes way.

Yeah I’ve been busy, we all have.  Urban’s getting his work life sorted so podcasts will be on the backburner for the time being unless I come up with a more lightweight form factor for the short term.  We’ll see.

In the meantime I’ve been plunking around with the new expansion and largely have had a lot of fun with it.

The latest mess with BoB is both hilarious and disappointing.  Hilarious becauase people are just idiots, disappointing because it really shows how sad the EVE community can be.  If it had been done to Goonswarm the same people would have been laughing instead of folding a new tinfoil hat.

First comic of 2009! Yeah it’s been a bit since I got back to these, thankfully non-game stuff has let up enough for me to get back to doing the things I love doing, EVE wise.

Podcasts are back, as you might have already noticed, and the community news thing has been well received by folks I’ve talked to. Recently redid the theme on winterblink.com and now I’m looking back at my to-do list for this site and seeing how it can be improved. Fun fun. :)

Well another year has gone by, all.  Things have been a bit slow around here lately because of work for myself, as well as Urban on the podcast angle, but stuff should speed up soon.

Merry Christmas, have a Happy New Year, and play safe out there IRL!

Whew, been a while eh?  Been pretty swamped with real life stuff on my weekends, but I’ve been keeping myself busy with some other aspects of EVE including (but not limited to) playing it, writing about it, and keeping up with all the Fanfest news, not to mention all the stuff with the new patch.

If you’ve not seen the coverage coming from Fanfest this year, it’s pretty great.  Community coverage has totally outpaced conventional media coverage of it, which is something I always love to see. :)

Podcast isn’t dead, just on a slight hiatus as Urban is busy as hell with his job, and new ENV is just about ready to go live.

Time’s running out if you want to get in on the silent auction to win a CCP office tour at Fanfest 2008.  Bit too steep for me, but it IS for a good cause. :)