{"id":1111,"date":"2013-08-08T22:18:14","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T21:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sobaseki.com\/wordpress\/?p=1111"},"modified":"2013-08-17T11:07:55","modified_gmt":"2013-08-17T10:07:55","slug":"bb-48eve-lore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sobaseki.com\/wordpress\/2013\/08\/08\/bb-48eve-lore\/","title":{"rendered":"BB #48–Eve Lore"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to the continuing monthly EVE Blog Banters and our 48th edition! For more details about what the blog banters are visit the Blog Banter page<\/a>.
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\nThis month’s topic is a request from CCP Sisyphus who wants to know how important is Lore in EVE Online?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“How important is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153fluff\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in Eve online? Would eve online be the same if it were purely numbers and mechanics, or are the fictional elements important to the enjoyment of the game? Would a pure text, no reference to sci-fi or fancy names still be an engaging game? Should CCP put more or less emphasis on immersion?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lore puts the RP in MMORPGs ! So it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s extremely important for a \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcrole playing\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 game. I do feel however that most games that call themselves MMORPG are more massive online games, than RPGs to be honest. I feel that the lore is the framework for the game, and that the gameplay should somehow fit within.<\/p>\n

Having said that however, another thought pops up in my head that says otherwise. How often have you played a game, or even an MMO where you didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t give a rat\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ass about the backstory. Rift, Everquest 2 and Tera to name a few I have played in the past, and I had no clue about the backstory. So I am contradicting myself here ! On the other hand, I still play WoW (yes really) and I even got a shelf full of Warcraft books, and I know a bit about Eve\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s backstory as well and these are the 2 games that seem to stick with me throughout the years. So maybe it does matter after all. You seem to get more involved and more of a \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcwhat\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to happen next\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 kind of feeling. Especially now with Wow and the upcoming 5.4 raid where the leader of the Horde will be killed and everybody is anxious to know who will be the next to lead the Horde.<\/p>\n

\"Sansha<\/p>\n

Should CCP put more emphasis on immersion ? I think they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re doing a good job with the live events (that I always manage to miss it seems), and there should be more of those I think. It does move the overall story forward and it seems to suck you more into the game and makes you play more and longer, which should be a good thing for a sub based MMO.<\/p>\n

Eve is unique in a way, since a lot of the Lore of Eve comes from the players themselves. BOB alliance<\/a> has become part of the Lore of Eve, and so has Goonswarm, and maybe someday, a guy that started his trial last week, might become part of the Lore of Eve that people will talk about for years to come ! And that is the beauty of Eve in my opinion.<\/p>\n

Participants:
\nHow To Be Terrible At Eve: A Guide – Blog Banter #48 – Lore<\/a>
\nSand, Cider and Spaceships -\u00c2\u00a0BB48 – In The Future, In a Star Cluster Far, Far Away…..<\/a>
\nWarp Drive Active – Blog Banter #48 The Importance of Lore<\/a>
\nEveoganda – BB#48: Lore is our Soul<\/a>
\nAstral’s Eve Trial By Fire – Blog Banter 48<\/a>
\nEmergent Patroller -\u00c2\u00a0Blog Banter 48 – Our fictional cultural heritage<\/a>
\nMabrick’s Mumblings -\u00c2\u00a0BB48: Pile of Bricks<\/a>
\nFaction Fit Pod – BB#48 – Life of Lore<\/a>
\nInner Sanctum of the Ninveah – Lore. What is it Good For?<\/a>
\nSered’s Lives – Blog Banter 48: Suspension of Disbelief<\/a>
\nSpace Business, Serious Business – To fluff or not to fluff<\/a>
\nLow Sec Lifestyle – Blog Banter #48<\/a>
\nJester’s Trek -\u00c2\u00a0My story is the same as yours just one chapter ahead<\/a>
\nRoc’s Ramblings – Blog Banter 48 – Lore<\/a>
\nLife on the Bubble – Art of War Alliance – BB48: Who Are You?<\/a>
\nFiddler’s Edge – Eve Lore: Blog Banter 48<\/a>
\nThe Ancient Gaming Noob –\u00c2\u00a0Blog Banter #48 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c You Want the Lore? You Can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Handle the Lore!<\/a>
\nWherein Ships Explode. A Lot – Blog Banter 48: Stop! In the name of the Lore!<\/a>
\nMorphisat’s Blog – BB #48- Eve Lore<\/a>
\nUgleb’s Journal -\u00c2\u00a0BB48 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Lore: the conflict driver<\/a>
\nAggressive Logistics –\u00c2\u00a0BB48 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The Dystopia Effect<\/a>
\nA Journey Through The Mind -\u00c2\u00a0Blogbanter: I reject your reality and substitude my own<\/a>
\nPoetic Discourse -\u00c2\u00a0The Caldari Alliance Championship 2005 (or Alliance Tournament I)<\/a>
\nA CARBON Based Life -\u00c2\u00a0Folklore in New Eden\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 BB48: Lore<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Welcome to the continuing monthly EVE Blog Banters and our 48th edition! For more details about what the blog banters are visit the Blog Banter page. * * * * * This month’s topic is a request from CCP Sisyphus who wants to know how important is Lore in EVE Online? “How important is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153fluff\u00e2\u20ac\u009d … Continue reading BB #48–Eve Lore<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[43],"tags":[164,143],"class_list":["post-1111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogbanter","tag-blogbanter","tag-lore"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pXll4-hV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sobaseki.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sobaseki.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sobaseki.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sobaseki.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sobaseki.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1111"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sobaseki.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1118,"href":"https:\/\/www.sobaseki.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions\/1118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sobaseki.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sobaseki.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sobaseki.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}