EVE General Discussion

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.

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.

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!

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.

2004 My flat mate across the hall at Uni, about a week after I first had access to the internet!

Never looked back...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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