News: EVE Online Developers Help Player Make Fan Movie

[News Bot]

Enfors writes "CCP, developers of the sci-fi MMOG EVE Online, continue to impress with their open attitude towards players. In a thread on the EVE forums, an EVE Online player named Dire Lauthris describes difficulties he was having while making a fan movie that would illustrate a portion of EVE Online's background story. To make it 'historically correct,' he contacted CCP, the developers, to check on some facts. Instead of threatening to sue him for infringing on their intellectual property, they ended up inviting him to their offices to set him up with better movie-making software than the one he was using. Also, they had an employee record the narrator voice for his movie. The movie is now finished and available online. Massively is running a related article about storytelling in EVE."

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[thoreau]

What a great story! Developers embracing a fan movie.

[Knuckles]

Now thats how proper game developers do it

[Musashi815]

Yep, that is quality treatment by the Devs. They obviously appreciate the value of having high quality player made stuff out in the Interweb. I always think a fan made "trailer" for a game is more likely to gain interest from non-players than a press release or the like.

[sahel]

Wow, I can think of some developers who should read this and learn from it .