Brandon Laurino from CCP was "interviewed" by James Gallagher who is the blog manager from SCEE, a part of Sony.
The text of the article is here.
The article is worth reading, also the comments, but lets look at a quote from one of the questions.
"The EVE universe is comprised of three experiences: one is the classic EVE Online play, “flying in space” or what we call FIS; there’s WIS or “walking in stations”, where you can now get out of your ship and explore the interiors of space stations; and the final piece is DUST 514 and we’ve nicknamed that SIF, or “shooting in face”. "
Now lets drill down into that quote, "or “walking in stations”, where you can now get out of your ship and explore the interiors of space stations".
This, and I'm being generous, is 95% a lie, a fabrication, at the very least it's very very misleading.
Currently, and for the next six to twelve months at least, you cannot leave your Captains Quarters.
Very soon we should have the other racial quarters as we are currently stuck with Minmater decor whatever station you're in.
You cannot "explore the interiors of space stations".
The existing quarters (the other three have not been released as yet) provides nearly zero extra function to the game. It looks like a room designed by somebody with no interior designs skills.
I cannot leave the room so where is my food? Some cereal packets on the shelf? My bed looks like some plywood with a sheet over it, the same can be said for the couch.
The big screens display the same monotonous information, I have no ability to change this information except via a simple hack to insert my own videos, which take an age to convert out of game.
Considering the interview was in the main about DUST514 why does CCP try to deceive potential gamers, does this Brandon not play Eve Online?
Does all his information come from press releases which seem to reflect the future imaginary vision of Eve and not the reality?
I must admit I switched off the Captains Quarters a while ago.
The motherboard in my Linux machine died, so I bought a new one, reconfigured the computer and took the opportunity to re-install Ubuntu after changing much of the hardware. I've reverted to the 8500GT display card from the GT240 it had as another machine in the house benefits more from the GT240.
While I was configuring Eve Online after re-installing the speed of the Captains Quarters was poor, so as a trial I switched it off and was then amazed at the performance increase (performance while in space was already quite good) and the massive speed up of the in game functions while docked up.
Seeing this I have also switched it off on my main machine (which has an 8800GT) and once again the speed increase is stunning.
Will it be switched on again?
Not likely as what's the point?
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