Hands Off, My Loots!

I’m a little late, but figured I’d post about the new EVE Expansion that was announced last week, Dominion.  Sadly…they included so much nothing…that all I can really pay attention to is the lack of content…or real news.

“EVE Online: Dominion will focus on what is often cited as EVE’s “end game” – alliance warfare. It offers a complete overhaul of the current sovereignty mechanics…Savvy alliances will benefit greatly from following and understanding these changes…”

I’m sure many, many people find this bit of news very exciting…and while I’m happy for them…I don’t do Alliance Warfare, nor do I give a rats ass about sovereignty at the moment…so…enough said about that topic.

“In addition, we’ll be adding some new epic arcs for pirate factions, offering the first iteration of the integrated social networking platform known as COSMOS, setting our artists free to rebeautify planets and more.”

Same as above really, I don’t do much lowsec/nullsec stuff…so pirate faction mission arcs…while good to have, won’t really benefit me at the moment.  Though I find it slightly more intriguing than the Sovereignty changes for the simple fact that I plan on doing them soon that 0.0 stuff.

The most exciting thing to me in this accouncement is the fact that COSMOS is being released…and since I’m a blogger, and tweeter…I think an EVE only Social Networking site is going to be really neat.  I can’t wait to see all the features.

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Now I’m not normally one to complain about things, but this last new item just helps to make up my mind about something I’ve been thinking about for a bit.  Most of the official news that CCP releases really lacks something important…NEWS!  Giving little hints at stuff here, and glints of polish there is, interesting I suppose…but just once I’d like a first news release to be a full news release…and not have to check back every few days hoping for 20 different Dev blogs explaining all the different things.

My main issue with this news item?  The so-called, Feature Page…there isn’t one.  It’s a page with a nice graphic…a link to a video that has nothing to do with the expansion…and a link to the EVE Homepage that doesn’t give any information about the Expansion.  Seriously…what was the point?

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So all in all, expansions are always an exciting thing to hear about…but I’ll hold the applause until I actually hear about it…

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