New WDA, and Tournament’s End

The Third Alliance Tournament is over now, and Band of Brothers has once again won. 🙂 To commemorate this, there’s a new WDA, complete with a friendly jab of course.

The first weekend of the tournament was technically frustrating, since the streaming servers of the live EVE TV feed were acting up. But things were smooth as silk this weekend, at least for me. The people at EVE TV caught a lot of flack from the forum trolls, but every year things keep getting better and better overall. Better coverage, better commentary, better sets… and it’s all due to the people behind it like Xyliana, spiralJunkie, Xod, and the rest of the team.

Great job, folks.

Post patch forum funnies

Man, I tell you some of the best entertainment can be found on the EVE forums these days, now that the Kali 1 patch has been put in. It’s been a week, and the forums are a total clusterfrack of people whinging over every… single… thing. I mean come on. News flash: there’s a ton of new content, enjoy it. Learn to use it, interact with it, adapt to it. That’s EVE.

If you’re an EVE player who’s recently come to it from another game, this is something you have to deal with in EVE that you won’t have to in other games. EVE is deep and complex, and continues to get more and more deep and complex with every patch. Most games just tack on side content that’s optional, here the changes affect the world. Like real life, you know?

So take a breath and relax, give things a few weeks and I think you’ll find things aren’t quite so bad as you might be thinking.

New WDA: $1.50 per Punchline

Almost forgot about this, but a new Warp Drive Active’s went up on Friday, and I just had to get in a friendly jab at EVE TV. 🙂

Don’t get me wrong, those folks do an awesome job, but there were some goofy technical problems that kept a lot of folks from tuning in at all. Yesterday though, the stream was working fine for me, and it was great to see the action once more.