EVE General Discussion

EVE never actually had noteworthy drops in average online players due to the summer.
At most, there was a barely noticeable OCCASIONAL dip, but more often than not, summer average online numbers were actually QUITE HIGH.
IN FACT, EVE actually has a "winter dip" that's more pronounced and more regular than any occasional summer dips. And that's when you're looking at cold, hard numbers ( http://jestertrek.blogspot.com/2011/08/some-curves-arent.html ) not at some make-belief or wanna-remember-differently data.

But the drop this year continues. It's not catastrophic, but it's there and it IS noticeable. VERY noticeable.


There was a much more panic-inducing crisis several years ago, and the effect was the exact opposite.
EVE is cheap entertainment (1 month of gameplay for the price of a movie ticket), so when it's economic crunch time, MMOs should actually see a GROWTH in subscriber counts, not a dip.


You need better prescription glasses.
It might be SOMEWHAT similar to last year's graph, but only because last year was a pretty shabby release year too - this year it's noticeably worse.
Compared to the same graph of two, three, four and even more years ago, the difference is slap-to-the-face obvious.

I am once again compelled to comment upon the ABSOLUTE ACCURACY, VERACITY, AND PENETRATING PERTINENCE of AKITA T's postings....

Sorry to interrupt, but there is a reason that Akita T has "Gravitas" in this forum... and it is due to the above.

Now carry on... "Eve is dying.. etc, etc ,etc. "

(P.S.: The antidote to "Eve is dying". is NOVA BOMBS.... see my other posts.)

Eve will not die until there is a better (niche) option.

Lets face it, most of us (not all) are here because EVE is different from other MMOs and we will take a break but we will come back, admit it, how many unsubscribers actually discarded their chars :)

EVE will die the day there is a real competitor (FiS, Sandbox, harsh gameplay) for its niche OR it will die slowly by becoming WOW

Look at EVE.

Now look at any other game.

Look at EVE again.

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in my opinion EVE is a particular MMO. Not because of its niche market, or its sandbox-ish character, but because the development behind it and CCP. Who would risk to launch a brand new FPS MMOBA (?) linked to a 8 years old game? Someone who's willing to keep such an old fart as up to date as EVE is. I don't dare to prophesy anything, I don't know how the market may move in a few years from now, but CCP's intention is Crystal clear. They want EVE to last fresh and updated even-though you/we're not always sharing their tempo/focus (which I for one do).

GW II is well over 3 years late. Anyone that complains about CCP as a company and jumps ship for Arena Net is quite the fool.

I'm not here because EvE is a niche game, I'm here because Anet sucks. They killed GW and failed to develop GW2.

Ironically, as bad as people hate WoW, I feel Bliz is pretty damned good. But the game CCP produces is far superior to either, and CCP is right behind Blizzard IMHO anyway.

But then I guess that cancels the irony right out, since people hate CCP so ******* bad they pay 15 bucks a month to come to these forums and verbalize that.

What a crazy business the MMO industry is.