Because, really, when I think of doing dishes or selfish financial domination...
The people who come up with merchandising tie-ins will apparently do anything for a buck, but honestly, is there no self-awareness in the process? Apparently not - or else why would it be possible to buy Wonder Woman aprons or Doctor Who Monopoly™?
"Now witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational battle station!"
The start of 2014 saw the first intergalactic war: nobody won. Or maybe everybody lost.
EVE Online is a massively multi-player game of interstellar intrigue and conquest set 21,000 years in the future, and a recent conflict demonstrated just how massively multi-player it really is. Close to half a million people play EVE, approximately 4,000 of whom were involved in January's epic 14-hour fight for control of the strategic B-R5RB system. Estimates of the real-world cost of the game vary, with some sources claiming that the battle cost a collective $500,000 loss to the combatants, with estimated costs of between $3,000 and $3,500 for each of the hundreds of Titan-class starships which were destroyed in the encounter, not to mention the countless smaller ships which fell prey to the missiles and energy beams of their opponents.
Can you imagine investing $3,500 into the creation of a virtual starship and then watching it turn into a slowly expanding cloud of pixelated parts in a battle for a star system that doesn't exist?
- Sid
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