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Free Beer for every attendant of EVE fanfest, purchased by one fan

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http://www.polygon.com/2014/5/3/5678760/eve-online-free-beer-ccp-fanfest

 

It’s hard to know what’s going to happen next during CCP’s Fanfest event in Iceland, the goings-on of the show can be just as unpredictable as the game. Battlestar Galactica star Katee Sackhoff made a joke about buying every attendee at the show a beer, before quickly taking it back. Warning: the video contains profanity.

 
 
One person, on the other hand, took the offer very seriously.
 
The CEO of Burning Napalm, a player-run corporation in Eve Online, contacted the CEO of CCP and made the offer to buy every attendee of the show a local beer.
 
I spoke with David Reid, the CMO of CCP, who confirmed that the individual sent over his credit card information, and CCP CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson used it and the resources of the Harpa Convention Center to purchase a large amount of Gull, a local Icelandic beer. Pallets of the beer were then brought into the event, and after the announcement every person in attendance was handed one free beer.
 
The scene was definitely something to see: Eve fans swarmed the table, and were each given exactly one beer before the last party of Fanfest began. The bill for the beer order was estimated to be around $10,000.

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Thats nice of them :)

 

(a bunch of drunkards running around...)

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That's really good of them. Kudos!  :lol:

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Thats nice of them :)

 

(a bunch of drunkards running around...)

Man EVE players like to PARTY! It might get a little crazy, somebody could pull out a graphing calculator!

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Thats nice of them :)

 

(a bunch of drunkards running around...)

One does not simply get drunk off of a single beer. 

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One does not simply get drunk off of a single beer. 

What if they steal it from someone else  :ph34r:

Just kidding

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One does not simply get drunk off of a single beer. 

EVE players are scrawny nerds with a max alcohol consumption of .023 before they get drunk. LOL ;)

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One does not simply get drunk off of a single beer. 

Unless you're a lightweight.

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0.23 blood alcohol is like a hospital trip

 

EVE players are scrawny nerds with a max alcohol consumption of .23 before they get drunk. LOL ;)

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0.23 blood alcohol is like a hospital trip

Oops I meant .023

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God why do Europeans have so much more gaming events than the US? One day... Europe I will come home.

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