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For further reading I suggest the following:
The Eve Store Article on Crossing Zebras
My Eve Posters Go On Sale!
Fanfest 2015 - My presentation, roundtable and autograph session
A Cease and Desist from 2013
Another one from 2015 for Drifter Wars
Eve Pirate Trading Cards (No Cease and Desist)



  1. You push at stalled situations you are enthusiastic over - trying to provoke momentum. Not everyone is going to react well to that. I can understand why CCP might have been antagonised.

    There is however nothing unique about what you have done. It is a common approach for many people – and is frankly more palatable than the passive aggressive style my wife favours. You would hope an organisation like CCP would see it for what it is, instead of taking a more personal Anti-Rixx stance.

    1. Every single day CCP Devs and employees get bad-mouthed, threatened, slandered, and worse on Reddit, on the Forums, and everywhere else. I once mention that the Eve Store sucks and that we got railroaded at Fanfest and I get blacklisted for it. CCP cancels the contract with me (which I didn't have an issue with) but then keeps selling our posters for two years! I speak out about that and get blacklisted.

      It is puzzling to me. Even more puzzling is the people that continue to suggest that something is wrong with me for standing up for what is obviously right.

      I'll keep doing it though.

  2. Dealing with CCP seems to be exactly the same as riding a see-saw with a fat kid. As long as he's in a good mood and playful it is a manageable affair. As soon as someone calls him a chubby, because he is, it's goodbye lightweight on the other end. Hold on tight you're going to get thrown off.

    I say let them go and fall on their own. They're screwing things up again.(VR) Maybe they need bonked on the nose again.

  3. You seem to be involved in some kind of tribulation always...

    1. Not always, there are long stretches of quiet contemplation and serenity, punctuated by a thing I call life. Life is messy, but it’s pretty awesome if you live it to the fullest.

  4. Seems to me, that CCP has driven the supply underground. The demand for eve-related "marketables" continues to exist. I strongly suspect that a lot of that historical demand has been met with unsanctioned products, and any remaining demand will continue to be forced to seek out unofficial channels with any proper official outlet. Ignoring or failing to properly service this demand will simply drive consumers to satisfy their cravings through under-the-table arrangements.

    As you have discussed, here and elsewhere, the passion burns hot, but is of limited scope and honestly, of a finite duration. The current state of one-off fabrication is sufficient to satisfy the demand.

    Either manufacture or license. Otherwise others will manufacture regardless of C&D's sent out. The demand is there, and if you're not taking care of your (potential) customers, someone else will.

    1. I couldn’t have said it better myself. It’s difficult for some people to understand but my real goal has always been to help CCP control their own IP better, inclusive of the community, instead of what has resulted from their tyrannical and closed approach - which is really just chaos.