6 minutes in: CCP is very happy with the blackout. More DAU, more MAU.
9 minutes in: Hillmar keeps referring to the Blue Donut as the Purple Donut and brushes it off with a sheeping laughter as “Did I say purple? I thought I said blue. giggle”, after having said purple donut at least 3 times. :CCP: And Matterall desperately trying to salvage this.
10 minutes in: CCP Hillmar wants you to take stress relief medicine when you play EVE to cope with the chaos he envisions.
13 minutes in: CCP acknowledges that they screwed up with their development in the last 5 years where they pushed people into capitals with relentless ferocity.
19 minutes in: All of a sudden, the formerly hyped and awesome new NPE is suddenly worse than the old NPE from the early days.
26 minutes in: CCP Hillmar says “16000 players go through EVE, register, log in, download the client.” 16000 character, I fixed that for you, Hillmar.
27 minutes in: CCP Hillmarl calls the 64 Bit client “new technology” and is pleasantly surprised that many people jumped onto this right away.
28 minutes in: CCP Hillmar is just idling around in high sec, mining ore and ice while listening to pod casts.
30 minutes in: CCP Hillmar wants to turn the now overrun Mt. Everest (analogy he uses for the EVE dificulty mountain/curve) into the Olympus Mons from Mars, and by doing so lessen the initial difficulty gradient. I think he doesn’t know that Olympus Mons has a steeper gradient at the mountain base and a much more gentle increase in the upper parts. :CCP: And he says he listens to science pod casts…
35 minutes in: CCP Falcon is pleased with log in numbers and continued activity in null sec. Metrics show lots of players are still in space. I wonder where they are.
40 minutes in: CCP Falcon wants to kick EVE in the rearside so that things turn into conflicts again.
45 minutes in: CCP Hillmar wants to see human labor have more value than robot work again.
Until 50 Minutes in: CCP still very pleased with the Blackout and extremely happy about the Zkill/Dotlan coincidental shutdown for the start of the blackout. CCP still thinks that climbing Olympus Mons is harder to do than Everest.
59 minutes in: CCP Hillmar keeps talking about operational stability. looks at the launcher and last few days 5+ DT extensions and unscheduled maintenance work. He also dropped a funny line: “For the remainder of this year you will be seeing us in this unintelligible hierarchy(?) of needs… It’s the cruel but fair we have been talking about …” So the blackout is going to continue at least until the end of the year.