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Now if you can imagine the majority of Apple employees were living in their work cubicals when they found out. (its patents are void now, trademarks are pointless, copyrights are invalid)." If they've held true to that ideal, stealing the marketplace out from under Apple effectively means Microsoft has accomplished what they set out to do years ago.' As of 11:00 GMT, Apple lost all its Intellectual Property. 'One of Microsoft's stated motivations from their early days as a company was to punish what they viewed as the arrogance of Apple.

It seems that rival Company Microsoft had a spy in the holding corporation, and he stole money as well as Super-Computers and other assets. "In the world of Business-Politics, the infamous Apple company has been dissolved. I'll translate it into a semi-realworld (fictional) scenario to help out.

Oh, and the bigger ships are persistent and cannot be stored and do not disappear when you log out, and neither do these player space stations ("POS" in Eve lingo, player-owned structures.) So you'd better have some good defense, a big alliance with someone always around to sound the alarm, or be damned good at security-through-obscurity. So go back to doing the lame quests and "raids" and other pointless garbage. You tried to guard the zone in and one out points. You installed automated ballistas and catapults and whatnot. Imagine if WoW or whatever the hell you play (and I used to for 8 months - had a maxxed out Ranger Cowgirl with Ravager pet who could down anyone except for one other ranger in complete tier whatever purple) except that the PvP areas you laid down your own castles to try to literally own and control the whole zone. They set up huge space outposts, with defensive satellites, spaceship warehouses and repair shops, defensive force fields 80km in diameter, oh yeah it's pretty sweet. A single guild isn't big enough to control much, so alliances form to hold and control a few stars in an area. It's the 90%+ of space that's not controlled by any guards whatsoever. In Eve, the stupid missions aren't the game. Still that was only about 600 people (with an audience of a few hundred thousand perhaps). "7:37pm, Sleeper at 93%" "10:05pm, Sleeper at 52%"Ħ) A bug or direct intervention by the Developers prevented them from winning the first attempt- so they had to do it all, then remotivate everyone and do it again after the Devs got jumped on by all of EQ to give them a fair shot. Killing the Sleeper was the EQ equivalent.Ī) It was supposed to be impossible by design.ġ) It killed a fully geared toon in 10 seconds.ģ) If you did some kind of quest, it woke up, kicked every one's ass in the world and then left the game forever unbeaten.ī) It was beaten on a PVP server- every server in the game was getting updates as it progressed.ġ) They had to have security to fend off any griefers who would try to stop it.Ģ) They had to prevent anyone from completing the questģ) They had a lineup of 30 warriors whose job was to step up, get aggro, die.Ĥ) They had a support group big enough to raise those warriors, rebuff them, and get them back in rotation within 300 seconds.ĥ) It took some ungodly number of *hours* to do this. Going so far as to get pseudo news sites with large followings to function as a communications tool and a rallying cry for a virtual world battle is actually pretty interesting. The real headline could be about how one alliance managed to use sites like Slashdot to wave the flag that their rival's outposts are now conquerable. Maybe if the game didn't focus on this aspect of the gameplay as one of its main selling points to get new players, this would be interesting. It might seem like some sort of big deal because so many people are involved, but this sort of thing is a core element for the higher level play of the game. The only thing interesting about this whole situation is the "news" coverage it is getting. If this is the first time something like this happened with an alliance this large, great, they got the high score in their game. What they signed up to is a game where this sort of thing not only can happen, but happens pretty often. This didn't impact their hobby, this IS their hobby. Those 2000+ people signed up for a game where alliances battle rivals through various methods.