X-Git-Url: http://git.nikiroo.be/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=test%2Fexpected%2FSLASHDOT%2F0102639448;fp=test%2Fexpected%2FSLASHDOT%2F0102639448;h=7fb3ce4159e1958f07655df233de71b63e286b52;hb=299a08f325f3de71e191b17b16a120d1714e3d7c;hp=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000;hpb=1aaa6ba3686a5a14f2957b6b8d02ffc0903f6832;p=gofetch.git diff --git a/test/expected/SLASHDOT/0102639448 b/test/expected/SLASHDOT/0102639448 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7fb3ce4 --- /dev/null +++ b/test/expected/SLASHDOT/0102639448 @@ -0,0 +1,346 @@ + 'EVE ONLINE' STUDIO ACQUIRED BY KOREAN MMO MAKER (ENGADGET.COM) + + Thursday September 06, 2018 @11:30PM (msmash) + from the in-some-business-news dept. + + o News link: https://games.slashdot.org/story/18/09/06/1921222/eve-online-studio-acquired-by-korean-mmo-maker + o Source link: https://www.engadget.com/2018/09/06/eve-online-pearl-abyss-ccp-games/ + + + MAXOMENOS writes: EVE Online developer CCP Games has been + acquired by Pearl Abyss, the South Korean studio behind the + action-oriented MMORPG Black Desert Online. According to + VentureBeat, the deal was worth $425 million and will close in + early October. It's a surprise announcement for CCP, which has + long operated as an independent developer. Eve Online isn't + the biggest MMORPG on the market, but it has maintained a + steady and loyal userbase through continuous updates and a + well-timed switch to a hybrid premium and free-to-play model. + The 15-year-old game is unique, too, with its large-scale + battles and notoriously complex economic and political + systems. + + + ** RIP Eve (Score:3) + (by spiritplumber ( 1944222 )) + + + Now watch the new owners completely misunderstand the userbase's + culture and wreck a good thing. + + ** Re: (Score:3) + (by sinij ( 911942 )) + + + If someone could make EVE more grindy, it would be a Korean + MMO maker. I don't see them misunderstanding that aspect, as + they invented Korean Grinder. + + + ** Re: (Score:3) + (by duke_cheetah2003 ( 862933 )) + + + > Now watch the new owners completely misunderstand the + > userbase's culture and wreck a good thing. + CCP already did that years ago. + + + ** + + ** Re: (Score:1) + (by Anonymous Coward) + + + Son, if Koreans will do anything it's inject sexy alien + women and bikini-space-armor into it. + East Asia never suffered the retardation of puritanism, + which is unique to the Western world owing to Abrahamic + doctrine, to develop Gymnophobia and Genophobia, so they + don't care about the Church-Feminist anti-sexualization + offense alliance. The only exception are the "Communist" + governments there. + + + + ** + + ** Re: (Score:2) + (by jeff4747 ( 256583 )) + + + It's almost like you don't know there's already Korean and + Chinese alliances in Eve.......and they're not doing all + that well. I'm sure FRT will stop feeding Keepstars soon. + + + + ** + + ** Re: (Score:3) + (by St.Creed ( 853824 )) + + + It was bad in the beta and never actually recovered from + some pretty bad development choices. Have they discovered + parallel processing yet? And version management? Okay, I + guess the last one was a bit mean. They must have + discovered Git by now. + But seriously, the game is an unstructured mess. Played it + for a while, flew a Machariel and did incursions, level 4 + missions etc. but after a while it got boring. May pick it + up again though. + + + + ** Not Good News (Score:4, Interesting) + (by Kunedog ( 1033226 )) + + + Shamus Young has a series on Black Desert, explaining how + shockingly aggressive, expensive and game-ruining he found the + microtransactions system to be, even if you're familiar with the + worst of the American systems. There's manadatory PvP and + deliberately cramped inventory space but the "cash shop" can + always make things better (i.e. playable). + + I'd be worried if I were an EVE Online fan. + + [1]https://www.shamusyoung.com/tw... [shamusyoung.com] + > I see all the default clothes are bland and I need to pay real + > money for a cool outfit. Aesthetics are important to me. (Which + > is why I spend so much time on sculpting my character.) So I + > really don’t want to spend the rest of my time looking at these + > blando outfits. Sigh. Fine. What’s a pretend suit of armor cost + > these days? Three bucks? Five bucks? + > + > FORTY SIX AMERICAN DOLLARS? ARE YOU TRYING TO START A FIGHT? + > The cheap outfits can be had for $22. They also offer ladies + > underwear sets for just $7, if you want to run around in your + > underpants. (I don’t, thanks.) + > + > (They also offer similar options for male characters. I was + > tempted to get the outfit that would let my kung-fu guy go + > shirtless, because he’s a kung-fu dude. But all of the choices + > looked like modern-day boxers. You can’t just wear baggy pants + > with no shirt.) + > + > Would you like to dye that super-expensive outfit you just + > bought? Or any other outfit? That will set you back another $10. + > And that’s somehow a rental. Your ten bucks gets you a month of + > being allowed to have dyed clothes. After the month is up, your + > clothes revert to their original colors and you gotta fork over + > another $10. + > Do you enjoy wheeling and dealing at the auction house in other + > games, but the egregious 35% tax on all your sales is making it + > impossible for you to have fun or turn a profit? Pay fifteen + > real-world dollars and the tax will go down to the normal 5%. + > (For one month.) + > + > Everything is exorbitantly priced like this. It’s so + > outrageously expensive that I get immediately pissed off. It’s + > not even about the money, it’s about the sheer audacity of the + > seller to ask this much[2] for what should be trivial virtual + > goods. Even if you’re a millionaire, you’re still likely to get + > offended if someone tries to sell you a stick of ordinary gum + > for five bucks. + + + + + [1] https://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=42507 + + ** Re: (Score:3, Interesting) + (by Anonymous Coward) + + + > Everything is exorbitantly priced like this. It’s so + > outrageously expensive that I get immediately pissed off. + > It’s not even about the money, it’s about the sheer audacity + > of the seller to ask this much for what should be trivial + > virtual goods. Even if you’re a millionaire, you’re still + > likely to get offended if someone tries to sell you a stick + > of ordinary gum for five bucks. + Sometimes, I thought Stallman was being a pendant for gripes + about terminology like "intellectual property". + Now I realize he was exactly right. + This guy uses the words "virtual goods", like it's something + he'll actually own. Dollars to donuts, the EULA and TOS says + these 'virtual goods' are nothing more than bits on their + server, you don't own a single bit of it, and they do + whatever they like, and fuck you we're keeping your money if + you don't like it. + Seriously, this should be a legal term. If your company + + + ** + + ** Re: (Score:2) + (by Calydor ( 739835 )) + + + Remember when they wanted to make players PAY for mods for + Skyrim? + + + + ** Re: (Score:2) + (by JustAnotherOldGuy ( 4145623 )) + + + $46 for a suit of armor? + If I ever had any interest in playing Eve*, this pricing + would instantly cure me of that notion. + *Which I don't, but still... + + + ** Eve + Korean MMO + Pay To Win (Score:2) + (by Crashmarik ( 635988 )) + + + If that isn't a match made in hell I don't know what is. + + ** + + ** Re: (Score:2) + (by MAXOMENOS ( 9802 )) + + + ....if they can only get out of beta...... + + ** Re: (Score:2) + (by blackomegax ( 807080 )) + + + The current beta is 3 moons, 2 stations, and a shitty + framework of a "game" that runs at 10fps on a GTX1060 + at low settings and looks 5x worse than games like doom + or E:D. + + + ** + + ** Re: (Score:2) + (by St.Creed ( 853824 )) + + + They're not even in Alpha. They call it that, but + what it actually is, is "perpetual development + hell". It doesn't have a version number but if it + had, it would be 666. + + + + + + ** Why didn't microsoft acquire it? (Score:3) + (by xxxJonBoyxxx ( 565205 )) + + + Since its unofficial tagline is, ya know, "spreadsheet online" + + ** Re: (Score:2) + (by JustAnotherOldGuy ( 4145623 )) + + + It's also known as "Spreadsheet Simulator". + + + ** Re: (Score:2) + (by meglon ( 1001833 )) + + + But...it's a really pretty spreadsheet. + + + ** + + ** Re: (Score:2) + (by ctilsie242 ( 4841247 )) + + + Makes me wonder too. I wonder if White Wolf would be sold off + (likely) or spun off (unlikely, but would be nicer). My fear + is that it gets tossed to some big company, and the IP + completely shelved, never to see the light of day again, + similar to how EA has done with a lot of Origin IP. + + + ** Re: (Score:2) + (by jeff4747 ( 256583 )) + + + CCP was making a World of Darkness MMO, but canceled the + project a few years ago. I think they sold the IP. + + + ** Only half a billion? (Score:2) + (by beheaderaswp ( 549877 ) *) + + + My god... that number is kinda high... + That aside... this new owner will just accentuate the problem + areas of Eve that kept it from truly meeting it's potential. + As it is, it's already a griefing sandbox with little wiggle + room for anything except PVP and/or massive corporate/alliance + industry or fleet ops. When it could be far more balanced and + appeal to a larger player base. + Pushing it further into "gang warfare" style griefing will + eventually make the player base smaller. + I stopped playing in 2016. So I play + + ** Re: (Score:3) + (by Luckyo ( 1726890 )) + + + Your description of events is the exact opposite of your + conclusion. It sounds like EVE has in fact achieved + greatness, because the process you describe functions exactly + like real world functions on macro level. + The fact that they apparently managed to recreated the world + on macro level in a game through long standing player + interactions in less than two decades is mind blowingly + amazing. + + ** Re: (Score:2) + (by St.Creed ( 853824 )) + + + And indeed, a subject of economic studies. Pretty + brilliant work in that respect. Whether it's successful as + an enjoyable game is something else entirely. + + ** Re: (Score:2) + (by Luckyo ( 1726890 )) + + + Not economic. Political. This is literally the core + tenets of concept of sovereignty. Economy is just a + part of the picture here. + + + + + ** Eve Online New addon will contain loot boxes (Score:2) + (by Cito ( 1725214 )) + + + No more expansion packs but eve online will offer season passes + at 4 different tier prices; standard, deluxe edition, legacy and + ultimate edition. + + ** Also known as (Score:2) + (by JustAnotherOldGuy ( 4145623 )) + + + "Eve Online", also affectionately known as "Spreadsheet + Simulator". + + ** made me laugh (Score:2) + (by meglon ( 1001833 )) + + + > Eve Online isn't the biggest MMORPG on the market + In other news: water is wet, and the sky is blue. + +