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Lipbite
Express Hauler
#21 - 2013-08-03 11:22:43 UTC  |  Edited by: Lipbite
Dave Stark wrote:
Lipbite wrote:
(almost 4 millions just during last 6 months).


i always did wonder how that "catering to casual scrubs" thing was going to work out for them.
guess now i know.


I'd say it works well: even after this exodus WoW has ~16 times more players than EVE and amount of players who left decreased by 80% during previous quarter (3.5mil vs 700k) so it's almost stabilized. Not bad for a game with ancient graphics engine and subscription fee.
Dave Stark
#22 - 2013-08-03 11:26:43 UTC
Lipbite wrote:
Dave Stark wrote:
Lipbite wrote:
(almost 4 millions just during last 6 months).


i always did wonder how that "catering to casual scrubs" thing was going to work out for them.
guess now i know.


I'd say it works pretty well: even after this exodus WoW has ~16 times more players than EVE and amount of players who left decreased by 85% during previous quarter so it's almost stabilized. Not bad for a game with ancient graphics engine and subscription fee.


how many more wow has than eve is irrelevant, they appeal to separate demographics.

when your players start leaving in droves rather than having a steady increase in subscriber numbers for a decade... i doubt "pretty well" is how i'd describe it.
Hra Neuvosto
Party Cat Enterprises
#23 - 2013-08-03 11:46:01 UTC
Why is it always dwarves, elves and humans?
Dave Stark
#24 - 2013-08-03 11:48:43 UTC
Hra Neuvosto wrote:
Why is it always dwarves, elves and humans?


because that's what people want, it seems.
GreenSeed
#25 - 2013-08-03 11:53:15 UTC
people want giggly physics on breasts and a theme park experience.

i know this because of internet.
Lephia DeGrande
Luxembourg Space Union
#26 - 2013-08-03 11:57:12 UTC
Nice and all but still another Theme Park MMO. Even with some destructable stuff and some "emergent AI" or what ever.

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Alpheias
Tactical Farmers.
Pandemic Horde
#27 - 2013-08-03 12:09:31 UTC
Zero fucks given.

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Trudeaux Margaret
University of Caille
#28 - 2013-08-03 12:10:32 UTC
There is really nothing at all about this that I find interesting. The Elder Scrolls Online game slated for release next year looks to be far more cutting-edge in terms of tech and gameplay, and the playable races in that game at least offer same variation on the tired old Tolkienesqe elfdwarfhuman theme. I hope that it does not fall short of my expectations, as nearly all these new releases do.

We'll see. In the meantime, spaceships.

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Aidan Brooder
Dynasphere Ltd.
#29 - 2013-08-03 12:44:27 UTC
Emergent AI would be great for EVE:

Day 1: Guristas fly around Null Sec
Day 2: Guristas boss sends some elite troops... Day is declared National Holiday and bragging posts bring GD Forum down.
Day 3: Guristas have moved to High Sec. High Sec MRs jubilate. Guristas happy too, as all their pirate bros are here. Have pirate reunion party of the millenium.
Day 4: Guristas boss sends some elite troops...

It'd be like a constant game of Pirate Pong! Pirate

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Jill Xelitras
Xeltec services
#30 - 2013-08-03 15:24:44 UTC
Sarmatiko wrote:
WoW is dying X


I fixed that for you.

Eve still has a couple of years.

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Jill Xelitras
Xeltec services
#31 - 2013-08-03 15:30:43 UTC
Hra Neuvosto wrote:
Why is it always dwarves, elves and humans?


.... and Trolls.

Trolls everywhere. Blink

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Karak Terrel
Foundation for CODE and THE NEW ORDER
#32 - 2013-08-03 15:30:43 UTC
WOW #487661221 .. what a new and refreshing concept...
Lipbite
Express Hauler
#33 - 2013-08-03 16:24:40 UTC
Hra Neuvosto wrote:
Why is it always dwarves, elves and humans?


Because it works - even in space games such as EVE (Gallente = elves, Matars = orcs, Amarr = dwarves).
Ishtanchuk Fazmarai
#34 - 2013-08-03 16:43:50 UTC
Just want to note: WoW is a EQ clone.

So the appropiate precedence is "every game looks like WoW which looked like EQ".

Aside of that, Fantasy MMO are not my piece of cake (bar GW 2, which is just too pretty to dismiss) and i certainly keep waiting for someone to develop a good SF MMO, preferably not based upon some lame audiovisual franchise.

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TunDraGon
Goonswarm Federation
#35 - 2013-08-03 16:50:42 UTC
posting in a stealth "make EvE free to play" thread.

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ISD Dorrim Barstorlode
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
ISD Alliance
#36 - 2013-08-03 19:25:10 UTC
Moving this from General Discussion to Out of Pod Experience.

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Reiisha
#37 - 2013-08-04 01:40:37 UTC
EQN actually looks very promising. If it plays its cards right it might actually be the first real -snipped so i dont jinx it-.

By the way, just a few days before the reveal Blizzard pretty much came out and said it started from scratch with Titan. I wonder why.

If you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all...
Pepper Swift
Perkone
Caldari State
#38 - 2013-08-04 08:49:45 UTC
Dave Stark wrote:
Lipbite wrote:
(almost 4 millions just during last 6 months).


i always did wonder how that "catering to casual scrubs" thing was going to work out for them.
guess now i know.


Wow has been around for a while.. I doubt those 4 mil left because of casual catering.. more like burnt the hell out..

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Pepper Swift
Perkone
Caldari State
#39 - 2013-08-04 08:52:05 UTC
Reiisha wrote:
EQN actually looks very promising. If it plays its cards right it might actually be the first real -snipped so i dont jinx it-.

By the way, just a few days before the reveal Blizzard pretty much came out and said it started from scratch with Titan. I wonder why.


Thats a good thing.. I hope they keep doing that until titan becomes a great game.. like what the blizzard of old would hVe done

What I need most.. is a day between Saturday and Sunday...

If life gives you melons, you might be dyslexic
Just Lilly
#40 - 2013-08-04 11:50:56 UTC
EQ Next looks like a Minecraft Disney mod with Dx 9c support Roll
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