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How you found EVE.

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Cyprus Black
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#1 - 2012-04-06 00:00:41 UTC
In your gaming life, what led you to find and play EVE Online? Was it a friend? An advertisement? Mentioned by a stranger? What was it? How did you get here?

Me personally, I got sick of WoW after their first expansion, Burning Crusade, and was shopping around for a better MMO. I saw a bunch of people on the WoW forums crapping on other MMOs, most especially EVE.

I tried the trial and thought it was terrible, then left. A few months later I gave it another try and I stayed for about two months. I was wisked away into a 0.0 alliance of which I was totally not ready for. Left EVE again.

Finally came back a third time and it stuck. Now I have two active accounts and will most likely stay until the EVE servers shut down for good.

Summary of EvEs last four expansions: http://imgur.com/ZL5SM33

Kacer Xenro
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2012-04-06 00:04:51 UTC
stumbled on the site through some mmo finder in 2003 or something, then saw i had to pay for it.

In 2006 i saw a friend play it and thought it was pretty cool.

in 2009 i found out WOW sucked balls and started my subscription.

my only regret?

that i didnt start playing in 2003, all that wasted SP
Gogela
Epic Ganking Time
CODE.
#3 - 2012-04-06 00:07:36 UTC
Was playing Freelancer mods and a guy who played on my server disappeared. Saw him a few months later and asked him where he'd been and he said "Google EvE Online." I did. Never looked back.

Signatures should be used responsibly...

D3F4ULT
#4 - 2012-04-06 00:09:31 UTC
Was looking for back in 2006ish for a brand new MMO that I could play on my poor little internet connection (Couldn't play anything that requried low latency)

Found EVE by googling through MMO advertising sites. Signed up like 5 times with trial accounts failing miserably at playing the game. Then one year I really bit the bullet and subscribed and really tried and here I am today.

2008 character and still don't know as much as I should, but I love that fact =D

"Bow down before the one you serve, you're going to get what you deserve"

Petrus Blackshell
Rifterlings
#5 - 2012-04-06 00:10:34 UTC
My boss always kept this weird looking game with shiny spaceships running in the background at work. After some time, I finally asked what it was, and he told me all about how Eve is this super awesome spaceship sandbox MMO, and about all the crazy things that happen all the time here.

After considering it for a few weeks, I started a trial, and subbed fully after maybe 3-4 days. After a couple of weeks I was derping around 0.0 in my Rifter, learning to PvP.

Turns out my boss wasn't actually into the PvP aspect at all (more of an industrialist), so we really never had much in common, but, hey.

Spreadsheets! Spaceships!

Accidentally The Whole Frigate - For-newbies blog (currently on pause)

Nimbus Cloud Liebrum
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#6 - 2012-04-06 00:10:44 UTC
im a big fan of space and saw an ad on a space website and it looked interesting. thats pretty much it. i play eve to explore and enjoy the scenery myself.
Simple Miner
Neros Kosk
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#7 - 2012-04-06 00:11:35 UTC
Back in 2008 I had a job working for my cousin at the mall. I met this guy there from Maryland working at the salad place I would always go to for lunch and after becomming friends and spokin a few he told me about EVE.

Watching EVE Online while high on a laptop did not impress me what so ever, but I gave it a try anyway and abosulutely love it. I quit WoW and started EVE but soon found out it sucked terribly to play this game alone so I had to quit. Couple years later I decided to give it a try again and actually met some decent people on here and never looked back.

I have noticed how incredibly hard it is to lure my WoW and TOR friends to play this game though. The videos don't do it much justice and when they see me ship spinning in WH space they question my stories of PVP and adrenaline rushes. It seems there never at my house when crazy **** goes down haha.
Roll Sizzle Beef
Space Mutiny
#8 - 2012-04-06 00:12:05 UTC
super cheep on steam about 2 years ago
Mentorm
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#9 - 2012-04-06 00:16:37 UTC
2004 My flat mate across the hall at Uni, about a week after I first had access to the internet!

Never looked back...
ShadowFire15
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#10 - 2012-04-06 00:18:27 UTC
i think i saw an ad for it on some site. saw it was about space and spaceships so decided to give it a try. a few trial accounts and later a job to pay for an account and here I am now. I miss the feeling of when I just started out murdering those ultra noob pirates in my ibis. :D

[i]Stan Smith had a snow storm over weekend guy was shoveling snow outside, so i shot him and mined the snow myself. concord never showed up. on an unrelated note, i have a court date next tuesday[/i]

Andy Landen
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#11 - 2012-04-06 00:20:13 UTC
I did a google search for spaceship game. Started Gallente but didn't understand tanking at all, or warping out without your T1 drones. Somewhere in the tutorials, they should say that civilian stuff is junk. They should also say that there is no save button. Totally dropped my jaw to learn that the first time. Since I hated gallente, I almost left the game for good until I found the help channel and a very helpful player who encouraged me to start over right with their friend invite for a much longer trial. Never did see them after that though. But it was the market and wormholes that hooked me. So CCP, improve those. Buy orders on the margin which fail certainly undermine the market to a large degree because you can't count on the buy orders being legitimate/good. But I digress a little.

"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them." Albert Einstein 

Ocih
Space Mermaids
#12 - 2012-04-06 00:21:13 UTC
While in a Vietnamese prison.
Burseg Sardaukar
Free State Project
#13 - 2012-04-06 00:22:51 UTC
I used to be an FPS/RTS only kind of guy. Never liked the idea of paying more than once for a game.

Planetside changed that, as it was an MMO-FPS. That game died from lack of updates, and got real stagnant.

My roommate and another couple guys in my unit were talking about EvE and it sounded pretty badass. This was 2006. I got started, learned to play mostly through my own mistakes and my roomate's instruction (although he was a huge noob, too, looking back on it.)

And here I am 6 years later. My roommate ragequit after the first war where our corp seriously got our asses handed to us, I took up the CEO role and we still suck. Except at suicide-ganking stuff. We can at least do that.

Can't wait to dual box my Dust toon and EVE toon on the same machine!

Muad 'dib
State War Academy
Caldari State
#14 - 2012-04-06 00:28:14 UTC
it found me in 2003.

Just a box on a shelf in PC world, with space stuff on the back that looked cool.

I didnt even know it was online, good job i had a good connection like 4 months before.

Cosmic signature detected. . . . http://i.imgur.com/Z7NfIS6.jpg I got 99 likes, and this post aint one.

Mara Rinn
Cosmic Goo Convertor
#15 - 2012-04-06 00:29:08 UTC
One day I saw an announcement on the Apple site about this spaceship MMO that had been ported to Mac. It's really as simple as that: quit WoW, played EVE instead.
Ghoest
#16 - 2012-04-06 00:31:15 UTC  |  Edited by: Ghoest
Back during beta evereyone was like - "oooh EVEs coming it will be THE game".

And I was like "Hmmm Ill wait a bit and see."

Then Mo0 happened.

Then CCP destroyed Mo0 and everyone rejoiced.

So 6 months in I was like "Ok time to try it."

Then I was like 'hey wtf theres no one around to fight"

But I staid because "Nouvelle Rouvenor Hero" is freaken awesome.

Wherever You Went - Here You Are

Ursula Thrace
Dreamland Augmented Consortium
#17 - 2012-04-06 00:37:17 UTC
I found EVE via Google in 2007, but didn't start a trial account for another year or so. I was so lost, I just gave up after the trial ended.

In 2009, I started another trial account and when that ended, I began subscribing. After having tried many MMOs over the years, I still tell friends that EVE is simply the best. I plan to be here for the long haul.
Christopher AET
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#18 - 2012-04-06 00:38:31 UTC
2008 I saw an article in a magazine. April 2009 I was back for 3 weeks leave in the middle of a 6 month deployment in the middle east. downloaded it on leave. Managed to keep playing on the second half of my deployment despite crappy net, never looked back.

I drain ducks of their moisture for sustenance.

Richard Aiel
The Merchants of War
#19 - 2012-04-06 00:44:03 UTC
stumbled across the Guiding Hand Social Club news article

http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r188/buddahcjcc/SOA-3-2.jpg

Cyran Thiatist
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#20 - 2012-04-06 00:44:57 UTC
I had just gotten an alienware a year ago and was looking for a good mmo to play. I tried easily 10 mmos before I stumbled upon this one in some article for best mmos. The screen shots, tales of espionage and 1000man fleet battles got me hooked. I almost quit after day 1 because I didn't know how to move my ship right away. I tried again the next day and got hooked from that moment on.
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