By Jim Rossignol on October 7th, 2009 at 8:33 am.
Permaband. Do you see? A clever joke there. Eve Online operators CCP seem to have no fear of getting up on stage to strut their stuff, and they seem to have taken that habit to its logical extreme in this video, a rap about running an MMO and having studios on three continents.
07/10/2009 at 08:39 Schaulustiger says:
That was quite funny.
07/10/2009 at 08:44 Schaulustiger says:
Meh, RPS cut my comment… Wanted to say that I especially love the Technoviking reference. Still, I feel no urge to play EVE :p
07/10/2009 at 08:41 Shadow says:
Wow…… That left me dumbstruck. Stuff like this really doesn’t help my EVE addiction.
07/10/2009 at 08:48 Jon says:
I have never been more excited when I say the title and pic of this piece
07/10/2009 at 08:49 Psychopomp says:
Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
07/10/2009 at 08:56 army of none says:
That’s. Awesome.
07/10/2009 at 08:56 Dagda says:
BRILLIANCE.
07/10/2009 at 09:26 Lack_26 says:
‘We can’t fall, gravities just a theory’ (or words to that effect)
Excellent.
More companies need to try this, also governments, I want to see Comrade Brown busting his moves with the back benches throwing some ‘cool and hip’ moves on Prime Minister’s Questions. Just to show they’re down with the kids.
07/10/2009 at 16:15 Flobulon says:
He should be smiling, too. The YouTube smile.
07/10/2009 at 09:30 Azhrarn says:
It was awesome to see them perform this live at the “Party at the Top of the World” for Fanfest, and the first showing of the video during the presentations was equally awesome.
CCP once again prove they’re crzy, but in a very good way. <3
I hope I can go to FF next year, even if it's just for stuff like this.
07/10/2009 at 10:11 TwistedMentat says:
Wait, was that Oveur as techno viking?
ARGGH!!! MY EYES! So many pasty white bodies.
Anyway, CCP, like Valve, are just one of those companies that rock. Having fun and giving a damn about the community, is it really that hard?
07/10/2009 at 10:19 TooNu says:
We’re CCP we march on fearlesly, excellence is what we strive to be, if you’re going to follow us to the top
Hurry
the
fuck up!
hah awesome, my 2 accounts help pay for this aswell
07/10/2009 at 12:59 Jayt says:
you mean
HARDEN
THE
FUCK
UP
07/10/2009 at 13:36 TooNu says:
Ahh ursäkta mig
07/10/2009 at 14:52 Davee says:
Ja, skärp dig hördu.
Also, this post (and vid whitin) is full of awesome and some win. Go CCP!
Hey wait, now I have lyrics for a song of my own! Woo!
07/10/2009 at 10:28 foop says:
Woop! Woop! It’s da space police.
This is truly a work of genius. CCP have always been crazy, but I think their PR people are getting better at broadcasting their particular Icelandic brand of craziness to the rest of the world.
Oveur clearly has no shame.
07/10/2009 at 10:50 Azhrarn says:
Perhaps, but given how much alcohol the man consumes, I doubt it matters much. :P
07/10/2009 at 10:45 Stick says:
Yiiiiikes. Them Icelanders are mad.
Of course, “the scene” could use a west coast /
east coastglacier-studded northern island smack war.Eagerly awaiting Blizzard’s Korean-animated orient-o-pop vid! (And if they’re too busy laughing-all-the-way-to-the-bank, I’ll settle for Valve making “Meet Da Posse”.)
07/10/2009 at 21:26 Bhazor says:
Oh that is definitely going to happen.
07/10/2009 at 10:55 Synneth says:
Hilarious, great recruitment video :P
07/10/2009 at 11:05 Nuyan says:
It’s not ‘hurry the fuck up’. It’s ‘harden the fuck up’. It’s from this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EY7lYRneHc
I just love the attitude. It might look a bit immature or juvenile, but things like this and the ridiculous jokes in their presentations (the constant usage of the word ‘fuck’) / dev-blogs etc is just amazing. Of course, it’s a commercial company and all that, but they do invest a lot in their games in a rather visionary way. You’re never sure what’s going to happen in the future, but I’m quite positive that in 10-20 years the EVE universe will (still) be world’s biggest serious meta-game and will actually have grown immensely.
07/10/2009 at 13:01 Jayt says:
lol harden the fuck up didn’t originate from him, its slang thats been around for years and years
07/10/2009 at 17:13 Nuyan says:
Doh. But it did become some sort of meme afterwards which inspired CCP.
07/10/2009 at 11:27 Andy says:
Shame, there was no CCP newcastle in that video. Would’ve been entertaining to see my friends making a fool of themselves on youtube! :)
07/10/2009 at 11:29 Joinn says:
LOL @ Nathan, ekki alveg Skjálfti ;)
07/10/2009 at 12:04 RagingLion says:
I really enjoyed that :) The tune and beats ain’t bad either.
07/10/2009 at 13:23 Kieron Gillen says:
RPS should rap more.
KG
07/10/2009 at 13:43 Sparvy says:
Make it subscriber content and I might go and get a debit card that works online.
07/10/2009 at 15:17 Psychopomp says:
I’ll get four.
07/10/2009 at 17:33 Arathain says:
I would absolutely pay to see that.
07/10/2009 at 18:09 Günter says:
I agree with this statement.
08/10/2009 at 18:41 CaseytheBrash says:
Punk, in my humble opinion, would suit you better.
07/10/2009 at 14:08 Joras says:
I love CCP so much as a company. Over the last couple of years they’ve finally gotten to a point where the only people they answer to is their customers. No public investors, no VCs they’re constantly begging for money, no board of stuffy shirts that could put porridge to sleep.
As as a result, CCP’s realized that the only people who matter are a group of gamers that love internet spaceships and laugh at lolcats, and that’s really given them the freedom to get away from the standard corporate facade and act like what they are: a group of gamers with a ton of money. As a result, you get amazing things. Like the EVE PvP Tournament and this video.
Keep in mind that we’re the people making all this happen for CCP. In fact, if more game developers go independent, we have every right to expect and demand this level of coolness from the companies that make our games. Companies like EA have to answer to a board of directors voted by the shareholders (many of whom have never even played a single game) and thus will never be able to truly be part of the gaming community. For a financially-independent private company like CCP, we should learn to expect nothing less.
07/10/2009 at 15:41 army of none says:
Exactly! I only play EVE on and off, but still… CCP acts like a small indie developer, which is amazing.
07/10/2009 at 14:57 pirate0r says:
I love it!
07/10/2009 at 15:40 Bhazor says:
The Shanghai posse has the best biatches whilst the Icelandic massive has the hardest dawgs.
07/10/2009 at 17:11 toro says:
Awesome :P
07/10/2009 at 17:54 mpk says:
I want some of that crazy in my life.
07/10/2009 at 18:37 Brass Gerbil says:
Suddenly I understand the average EVE pirate a lot better.
That’s not a compliment.
07/10/2009 at 21:23 CreativeShadows says:
This is what i love about CCP, they started with the silleh vids last year and they are not afraid to have a laugh.
Also something else they did was another little vid with Oveur as an intro to him taking the stage and a play on his legendary love of booze.
/me hugs CCP
07/10/2009 at 21:30 Azhrarn says:
You mean this one: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDTmrbHqlhk[/url]?
“Warning, you will be sober in 3 minutes”
The poster everyone attending that presentation got is also full of awesome.
I’ll really need to go again next year, it was epic.
07/10/2009 at 21:36 CreativeShadows says:
yep thats the one should of though of linkage……….
is still awesome though.
07/10/2009 at 22:29 invisiblejesus says:
Wow… still not interested in Eve, but I am suddenly much more interested in knowing when that World of Darkness MMO is going to come out. That’s awesome.
08/10/2009 at 02:57 Jack says:
Ha, watch the one and a half hour video of their Fanfest Keynote that they posted on their youtube channel.
You’ll instantly understand how this video came to be. Their videos are hilarious and wacky-crazy.
A completely ridiculous and awesome bunch of nerds, they are. Strange, strange sense of humor, but it works really well for them. I just renewed my EVE subscription for a full year :O and I fully believe that they’ll continue to be awesome and make EVE awesome for that year and more. They got me.