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Posted: Apr 15th 2008 3:39PM (Unverified) said

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That's pretty rough all around.
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Posted: Apr 15th 2008 3:39PM McWeen said

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People play EVE?
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Posted: Apr 15th 2008 3:45PM Demon G Sides said

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A lot.
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Posted: Apr 15th 2008 3:50PM Dr said

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Generally 30-40k people online at any given time, I believe. It's no WoW by any means.
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Posted: Apr 15th 2008 3:41PM Ranus Studios said

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I've never played it in my life, nor did I ever know what it was about. Maybe I'll download it just for kicks.
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Posted: Apr 15th 2008 3:49PM (Unverified) said

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It's not a game you can play just for kicks. It takes more skill and knowledge than most careers.

Depressingly, it lacks in fun.
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Posted: Apr 15th 2008 3:45PM (Unverified) said

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Maybe CCP leaked it to generate interest in EVE... makes sense?
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Posted: Apr 15th 2008 6:27PM einhanderkiller said

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No. From what I've heard, CCP is banning the IP addresses of people who download the torrents from EVE Online.
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Posted: Apr 15th 2008 3:47PM Tez said

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EVE Online is an awesome game.
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Posted: Apr 15th 2008 3:49PM copa said

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If we take CCP Wrangler at his word, and this is "decompiled client code", then nothing is stolen here. Someone just ran a decompiler on the Eve software that they purchased and they legally own.

Sounds like CCP didn't run an obfuscator during their compilation process, or they ran a weak one.

In most countries, it is not legal to re-distribute the source one it is decompiled. But it would be perfectly legal to distribute instructions so that every one who owns a copy of the game can decompile their own source.

Sounds like the horse is out of the barn here, and CCP is going to have to find a more constructive approach than banning their paying customers.
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Posted: Apr 15th 2008 3:51PM atomato said

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EVE online is a very unique game. Everything is player controlled and you can do things like PvP and mine anzzZZZZZZZZZZZZ.
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Posted: Apr 15th 2008 3:55PM Tez said

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Good point.
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Posted: Apr 15th 2008 3:55PM (Unverified) said

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This graph probably describes EVE best:
http://go-dl.eve-files.com/media/0803/LearningCurve.jpg
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Posted: Apr 15th 2008 3:56PM Tez said

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That's referring to the card game, I think.
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Posted: Apr 15th 2008 4:11PM (Unverified) said

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Nah, that's referring to the game, otherwise why compare LOTR Online? There was another EVE long ago, the EVE as we know it now is Second Genesis.
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Posted: Apr 15th 2008 4:11PM (Unverified) said

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Oh, and it's fucking hilarious and true.
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Posted: Apr 15th 2008 4:13PM (Unverified) said

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The x and y axes should be reversed ;)

I never cared for EVE much seeing how it was basically every other muhmorpugur but just in outer space.
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Posted: Apr 17th 2008 5:07AM m4xn00b said

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time should always be on the x axis...
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Posted: Apr 15th 2008 3:57PM desi k said

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This wouldn't be the first person to get caught live that. My brother was trying to d/l Spiderman 2 shortly after hitting theaters and all he got was the trailer repeated several times and an e-mail from our ISP stating that MGM (or whoever published it) threatening to sue them if they did not terminate our service... Neither of which happened.
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Posted: Apr 15th 2008 3:58PM (Unverified) said

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I wonder if Blizzard has to deal with this shit? I mean, fuck, stealing source code, Designers selling secrets, this game sounds just like real life trading. All the insidious plots and underground dealings. Though the seeding trick is quite funny, because they can go on...say, an unprotected wifi hotspot, or even a school computer and it would be worthless to them when they ban that IP. I don't approve of stealing source code like this from businesses, but I'll admit with what else has been going on with this game; it's rather funny.
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Posted: Apr 15th 2008 4:12PM Deck said

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I played the trial version of EVE. What I found was that to actually make it an enjoyable game, you had to pretty much play it as your job. Its that in-depth.
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Posted: Apr 15th 2008 4:45PM Spunky Monkey 190906 said

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Bored me to death, wait....I'm dead?
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Posted: Apr 15th 2008 5:14PM j4s0n said

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It wasn't stolen, it was leaked.

Its only the client side source that was leaked, not the server. (although they could reverse engineer the messaging potentially and mock a server after a lot of work and assumptions).

On a side note, this has happened before, and with a much more serious scale (Halflife 2).
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Posted: Apr 15th 2008 5:58PM (Unverified) said

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YES! EVE SOURCE CODE!

Now I can create my own snore-inducing mining simulation!
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Posted: Apr 15th 2008 7:32PM (Unverified) said

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Spy sappin' mah my MMO!
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Posted: Apr 15th 2008 7:32PM (Unverified) said

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Oh dammit!

Ignore the *my.
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Posted: Apr 15th 2008 9:04PM mundox said

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**Coming Soon**
100,000,000,000,000,000,000 EVE Online private servers.
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Posted: Apr 16th 2008 11:23AM (Unverified) said

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what would even be the point? isn't the one giant server the main draw?
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