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Richard Aiel
The Merchants of War
#21 - 2012-04-06 00:45:40 UTC
Petrus Blackshell wrote:
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!


ooooh tell me you ganked him lol

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Vertisce Soritenshi
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#22 - 2012-04-06 00:47:37 UTC
Beta. Long time ago in a city far far away...

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Mohr Cowbell
KarmaFleet University
#23 - 2012-04-06 00:56:17 UTC  |  Edited by: Mohr Cowbell
I think I discovered Eve after playing Anarchy Online and/or SWG for a short while. Before long, I was wondering why the hell I rarely saw anyone else online in AO. This was probably around 2003 or so. I remember getting a beta invite for Eve, but, I don't think that I really tried it out until a couple of years after that. When I did, I didn't know WTF was going on, and didn't stay very long. (I also had a lot going on IRL so I didn't have the patience to really learn it.)

I tried Eve again a couple of times, until 2009 or so, until I finally tried it again. And I think I became a regular in 2010 after seeing some threads about in "various places".
Dagwood Steele
Kings 0f XXX
#24 - 2012-04-06 00:57:05 UTC
Stopped by CCPs booth (well, table) at E3 '03. Had a little convo with (maybe TomB) someone and was like "you implemented this in python???!!one". Bought the box the day it came out but only installed it about two months later due to work. Been paid up ever since (this is not my main).
Serene Repose
#25 - 2012-04-06 00:57:48 UTC
I was studying serial killers and pathological liars and found a link amid this copious material I was wading through.

We must accommodate the idiocracy.
Petrus Blackshell
Rifterlings
#26 - 2012-04-06 01:07:15 UTC
Richard Aiel wrote:
Petrus Blackshell wrote:
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!


ooooh tell me you ganked him lol

AWOXing is generally looked down upon. Smile

Besides, I had plenty of CVA to kill (I was part of Ushra'Khan).

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Richard Aiel
The Merchants of War
#27 - 2012-04-06 01:08:33 UTC
Serene Repose wrote:
I was studying serial killers and pathological liars and found a link amid this copious material I was wading through.


Dont you mean sociopaths and cyberbullies rofl

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Hroya
#28 - 2012-04-06 01:18:38 UTC
After EA's canning of E&B i wanted spaceships again.
Saw eve, dont remember where, back in early 04 and signed up. Clueless and impressed and i never got any less clueless or less impressed since.

Went to the first fanfest and have good memories of that one. -i was there-

Along the way took a few hiata now and then but eve never lets go but along the way it made me understand that no matter how smart, dumb, evil, rightious, slacking, inspiring, active or casuall you are, in Eve there is allways room for you. Eve just caters all.

And that is why it is the best damn mmo out there. You decide everything, you risk everything.



You go your corridor but.
Killer Gandry
The Concilium Enterprises
#29 - 2012-04-06 01:24:34 UTC
Also a former Earth&Beyind player.
When EA started raping the game I downloaded EVE after it getting reckomended by someone else I flew with in E&B.

I take my breaks in between but keep returning.
Meryl SinGarda
Belligerent Underpaid Tactical Team
#30 - 2012-04-06 01:25:30 UTC  |  Edited by: Meryl SinGarda
I originally found EVE back in 2003/2004 when I first started playing the MMO, Anarchy Online. I was hanging out with members of a player oganisation I had joined and one of them was talking about this guy, (not exact quote) "yeah, it sounds way better than AO. I hear he's lvl 400." and the other friend asked something along the lines of, "what's the cap?!" Which was followed by, "there is no cap."

That right there sparked my interest. But the image that was embedded in my mind at that moment was something like two-dimensional spaceships flying against a black background with strange faces, lots of money and a never-ending level grind.

Around 2005/2006 some bad things happened in a player organisation a friend and I had been running, so I tried out EVE. Confused the bejeebers out of me and dropped it immediately.

3 to 4 years later, after constantly being in and out of WoW, due to its horrible community and unsatisfying gameplay, I came back.
Zircon Dasher
#31 - 2012-04-06 01:49:37 UTC
A guy I worked with in ought-five told me about it.

EVE is the first and only MMO I have ever played.

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Chokichi Ozuwara
Perkone
Caldari State
#32 - 2012-04-06 02:07:52 UTC  |  Edited by: Chokichi Ozuwara
A friend was trialing. I had seen ads for it years ago, and while I love spaceship Scifi, I didn't get what Eve was about (crappy ads, too abstract).

I tried it, and I was hooked, although the onramp experience for new users is crap, and it is a surprise that CCP is able to grow their market share at all given the way things are structured.

Today about 6 months later, I have 3 accounts, I do a little pew pew now with RvB, I do market trading (almost have every market skill lvl 5'd) and I am planning to spend time in wormholes with some in game Dutch friends I made.

Eve is a great game, but it's going to need a very active and diligent developer to keep it interesting (and worthwhile) for me over time.

Tears will be shed and pants will need to be changed all round.
Kessiaan
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#33 - 2012-04-06 02:10:54 UTC
It was 2007, and I was looking for a game that wasn't trying to clone WoW.

The endless parade of WoW clones continues, and I'm still here.

KB Link
Dessau
The Scope
#34 - 2012-04-06 02:24:03 UTC
Back in 2008 my brother was a junior at university, I was working for a large JP gaming company. At that point I played action ORPGs for the most part: Phantasy Star Online, Monster Hunter... I had MMO experience with UO but that was about it.

Anyway, my brother is goes home on a break and, knowing I'm heavy about sci-fi, sends me a message from across the country, "Have you tried EVE Online? It's got all kinds of crazy math, a player-run economy, I think you'd like it."

He was right and here we are, still playing.
Ender Black
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#35 - 2012-04-06 02:34:18 UTC
I found EVE at my local EB Games in 2004 in the box. I was intrigued by the idea of a space MMO and was enjoying the RvR combat of DAoC at the time and thought, "what the hell....might as well try it." Couldn't for the life of me figure out the game and never subbed. Tried it again in 2006 after some scandal reported in the gaming news and have stuck with it since.

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Ai Shun
#36 - 2012-04-06 02:45:18 UTC
Cyprus Black wrote:
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?


The Guiding Hand Social Club and this pure EVE goodness was what interested me first. Never played it until a friend on my site mentioned he was playing; so I decided to give it a go from there.
Darronis Olachenko
#37 - 2012-04-06 04:27:59 UTC
Back in late 2010 a friend and I were bored and glancing around the games section at some store. I recall making some remark like "Man, I wish there was like, a space combat mmo. Nothing but ships, flying and fighting, fleet battles, piracy, that kind of thing." He responded by telling me such a game existed called Eve Online, and that one of his buddies back in the army played it. Came home and looked it up on youtube. Started up a trial, go hooked, and never looked back.
ACE McFACE
Dirt 'n' Glitter
Local Is Primary
#38 - 2012-04-06 04:46:32 UTC
My friend kept saying how great EVE was and how its all about the pew. Now before then I had never really played and MMO and I was a bit 'eh' on the idea. One day however I was sick and had nothing better to do so I decided to download the client and play the trial. Needless to say it was a good choice and it has ruined any other MMO I may have considered playing

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Herzog Wolfhammer
Sigma Special Tactics Group
#39 - 2012-04-06 04:48:57 UTC
I found EvE by one of those banner ads you see everywhere.

Funny thing is I thought those ads would stop coming yet still they come. Makes me suspicious.

Bring back DEEEEP Space!
Parthonax
#40 - 2012-04-06 04:49:39 UTC
found it in 2007 while surfing the internet but i didn't had a pc then that could run the thing so i started my first sibscription in early2009
I always loved Sci Fi and i really loved this game and i still think the whole concept of eve is brilliant but i am done with it

i am sick and tired of CCPs blatant favouritism toward nullsec and griefers i am sick and tired being forced into pvp EACH time i log in( i do like pvp , just not each time i log in ) , i am sick and tired the way industry and small medium corporations are being treated by CCP , being treated almost like it is a nuiscance and a embarrasment to them
Also sick and tired of that white trash bunnch of idiots in a certain nullsec alliance
sick and tired of CCP lies and hypocricy


i do not think this game will last for another 2 years , not with the current rate subscribers are leaving
you can dress up a death body with all sort of fancy clothes it still is a death body
so this is permanence