Are you heading to Iceland for the EVE Online Fanfest coming up at the end of this month? Have some spare cash that you'd like to see go to a great cause? As part of its charity events at Fanfest this year, CCP is offering a super-special VIP tour of its studios -- a tour that is currently being auctioned off via a silent email auction. All proceeds from the auction will be going to benefit Get Well Gamers, a charity that helps provide games and consoles to the childrens' ward at many hospitals.
The lucky winner will get a personal dev tour into the inner sanctum of CCP HQ in Reykjavík led by CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson (aka CCP Hellmar). Along with the tour, the winner will be treated to lunch with the developers of EVE Online and given what the company describes as "a bunch of cool goodies." If you'd like to get a bid in, head over to the EVE Online site and read up on what you'll need to do to enter the silent auction. Good luck!
Reader Comments (7)
Posted: Mar 5th 2011 8:14PM PiOmega said
No I'm not going, but maybe I'll see them at Comic Con this year I hope.
Awesome when a game company picks up a charity such as this :) hope it goes well.
Awesome when a game company picks up a charity such as this :) hope it goes well.
Posted: Mar 5th 2011 11:53PM slash beast said
It's funny because you see all these women in attendance yet the female population in eve is nearly non existant. Am I to believe what few women there are that play eve attend the fanfest?
Because that would be hard to believe....unless they're residents of iceland and they're just there to show support for what little gaming industry there is there.
Because that would be hard to believe....unless they're residents of iceland and they're just there to show support for what little gaming industry there is there.
Posted: Mar 6th 2011 8:25AM Icemasta said
@slash beast
They pay them to be there so it doesn't look like a sausage fest. Also, 90% of women won't ever mention they're a women because it brings a fuck ton of unwanted attention. My 2 sisters play MMOs, one plays WoW, the other Eve online/Global Agenda, and they both play male characters and tell very little people that they're girls because otherwise they get harassed constantly. People need to stop making a big deal out of it and maybe girls will be more themselves online.
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They pay them to be there so it doesn't look like a sausage fest. Also, 90% of women won't ever mention they're a women because it brings a fuck ton of unwanted attention. My 2 sisters play MMOs, one plays WoW, the other Eve online/Global Agenda, and they both play male characters and tell very little people that they're girls because otherwise they get harassed constantly. People need to stop making a big deal out of it and maybe girls will be more themselves online.
Posted: Mar 10th 2011 11:05AM (Unverified) said
@slash beast Some if not most are likely girlfriends / wives. EVE's average player age isn't a 15 years, but in their late twenties. And hey, if I had a girlfriend, I'd take her to Iceland with me. It's a beautiful place.
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Posted: Mar 6th 2011 3:10AM EdmundDante said
It is kind of interesting that the female population for Eve is so small. Why are spaceships such a male thing? I mean - there have been plenty of women astronauts right?
Posted: Mar 6th 2011 11:48PM (Unverified) said
@EdmundDante I think it's more specifically an EVE thing. EVE is definitely a darker and grittier take as far as sci-fi goes. Not to over-generalize, but it definitely wouldn't appeal to any women that are into anything "cute" about the MMOs they play (i.e. bright colored cartoons ala WoW).
Add in the brutal FFA PvP environment and that explains the lack of women players imo.
STO is a sci-fi setting and has a much larger portion of female players.
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Add in the brutal FFA PvP environment and that explains the lack of women players imo.
STO is a sci-fi setting and has a much larger portion of female players.







