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Hey, time travelers from 2032, tell us what EVE is like.
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Lady Katherine Devonshire
Royal Ammatar Engineering Corps
#61 - 2012-08-28 04:12:37 UTC
Vera Algaert wrote:
EVE subscriber numbers peaked just above 400k in 2014 and crossed the 150k mark by the end of the decade.
Several attempts to "revive" EVE with special promotions etc failed and after a marketing study (which concluded that a market for EVE-like MMOs does not exist) had put any discussions about EVE 2 to an early end, Sony sold the game to some European media group in early 2019.

The new operator ran the game in pure maintenance mode for another three years (subscriptions had stabilized at ~120k) before filing for bankruptcy (because of heavy losses in other business fields, most notably TV).
The court appointed interim administrator managed to save most of the enterprise with an aggressive restructuring program which EVE fell victim to.

The servers were shut down in May 2023, attempts by former players to acquire the EVE IP via crowd-funding failed on the resistance of Sony (IP ownership was still split between ex-CCP employees and Sony).

I'm sorry to tell you but in 2032 EVE has been dead for good for almost a decade and very few gamers remember that it ever existed.

(On the upside you just have to survive another 28 years before time travel becomes available and you can play any "classic" MMO at the height of its success - how cool is that?!)


Roll that back 20 years and replace "EvE" with "SWG" and you've got a true story. Sad

The sound of the Amarrian heart
Kalenn Istarion
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#62 - 2012-08-28 04:29:52 UTC
So many great ideas... but why wait til 2019 for the Terran invasion? That would certainly put a spin on hi-sec :)

Try Harder.
Dalmont Delantee
Gecko Corp
#63 - 2012-08-28 05:57:50 UTC
Paul Oliver wrote:
Well might as well come clean with the truth, as of 2060 EVE is doing GREAT


If only life would be so good. Playing EVE while hooked up to life support machines as by then I'll be REALLY Old rather than just old :P
Paul Oliver
Doomheim
#64 - 2012-08-28 06:01:26 UTC
Dalmont Delantee wrote:
Paul Oliver wrote:
Well might as well come clean with the truth, as of 2060 EVE is doing GREAT


If only life would be so good. Playing EVE while hooked up to life support machines as by then I'll be REALLY Old rather than just old :P


Welcome to the future brother, may your Maelstrom never run out of ammo as you spend your golden years wired into the EVE matrix. Blink
Its good to be [Gallente](http://dl.eve-files.com/media/1209/QEQlJ.jpg).
FloppieTheBanjoClown
Arcana Imperii Ltd.
#65 - 2012-08-28 13:44:45 UTC
Saede Riordan wrote:
They are turning everything...different. Planets are completely ripped apart, huge chains of metal encase stars. strange higher dimensional folds that hurt the eyes to stare at stretch between systems. The megascale engineering never seems to end. Just when we thought there was no further step, they started to dismantle the suns. We know not of their intentions, only that the cluster as we knew it was gone.


We were invaded by the Xeelee?

Sweet.

Founding member of the Belligerent Undesirables movement.
Malphilos
State War Academy
Caldari State
#66 - 2012-08-28 16:14:58 UTC
My Dwarf HunterPaladinPriest/Monocle Crafter just got to level eleventy-billion, and Ponies need a nerf.
Inquisitor Kitchner
The Executives
#67 - 2012-08-28 16:32:21 UTC
Well I'm not sure about EVE but I just finished watching World President Richard Nixon's Head's speech about how we need to crush the invading alien forces.

Oh btw everyone wears those outfits from Tron.

"If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared." - Niccolo Machiavelli
Bagrat Skalski
Koinuun Kotei
#68 - 2012-08-28 16:52:32 UTC
Here in 2032 CQ doors are still closed, and Goonswarm is CCP.

Custom ship skins, character creator style "repaint". Bring it!
Toroup
Prometheus Deep Core Mining and Salvage
#69 - 2012-08-28 17:49:05 UTC  |  Edited by: Toroup
Time travel creates parallel realities - that's why there is no paradoxical conflict. When someone left 2032 to come to 2012, their reality in 2032 is unchanged by their actions in 2012 because the reality that they are in in 2012 is a splinter of the original. That's the only way time travel could work.

Anyway, to answer your question, in 2032 shuttles are OPed because of the Thermo-Destructo rays that that only they can fit. Everyone PVPs with shuttles - except the Mins, who still use boxes with duct tape and rock launchers. So invest heavily in shuttles.
Telegram Sam
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#70 - 2012-08-28 18:15:56 UTC
Here in 2032 I can play EVE using my Wii Fit balance board. Well actually it's more of a balance pod.
Taran Summers
PwnCo
#71 - 2012-08-28 18:40:02 UTC
You can't stop veldspar day! You can only delay it! Chribba is softwaaaare!
ctx2007
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#72 - 2012-08-28 19:02:24 UTC
Toroup wrote:
Time travel creates parallel realities - that's why there is no paradoxical conflict. When someone left 2032 to come to 2012, their reality in 2032 is unchanged by their actions in 2012 because the reality that they are in in 2012 is a splinter of the original. That's the only way time travel could work.

Anyway, to answer your question, in 2032 shuttles are OPed because of the Thermo-Destructo rays that that only they can fit. Everyone PVPs with shuttles - except the Mins, who still use boxes with duct tape and rock launchers. So invest heavily in shuttles.



Beware of he who says invest heavily in shuttles, for he is a shuttle salesman!!!

You only realise you life has been a waste of time, when you wake up dead.
Barbens
Saitanic Cult
#73 - 2012-08-28 19:57:43 UTC
Everything you've ever wanted from EVE will be coming soon™

I asked Bhallgorn if you should click this link, this is what he said...
Saede Riordan
Alexylva Paradox
#74 - 2012-08-28 21:05:13 UTC
Kalenn Istarion wrote:
So many great ideas... but why wait til 2019 for the Terran invasion? That would certainly put a spin on hi-sec :)


Well CCP started talking about it in 2015 at fanfest and got everyone really excited, there was some storyline stuff, and then nothing happened with it for like, ages. We all thought it was just vapourware, then one day, out of the blue 2.3 gig patch comes along. No warning, no accompanying patch notes, just the patch. And then there were terrans. I'm pretty sure that I remember soundwave saying something like, "And that my spacefriends, is how you troll in eve'

Fear and Loathing in Internet Spaceships
Maxpie
MUSE LLP
#75 - 2012-08-28 21:12:27 UTC
Your brain will be directly, permanently connected to Eve while your body sits in stasis. Every once in a while you will log into 21st century Earth for entertainment.

No good deed goes unpunished