EVE General Discussion

…except, of course, that it has done exactly that and has, in fact, done quite the opposite of what you think it should be doing — it has been constantly expanding.

So no, the game will survive with unchecked piracy. In fact, one might make a reasonable argument that it has survived because of its uncontrolled piracy.

No, that would ensure the instant (not long-term) death of the game, since it would completely break the economy and industry that functions as the game's engine.

The game already has this.

That wouldn't really work either. If they were to introduce a no-PvP zone in EVE, they would have to make it truly no PvP in the EVE sense of the word. That would mean something along the lines of the following restrictions while in that space:

· You can obviously no longer lock any player ship.
· You can no longer activate any kind of AoE weaponry or module.
· You can no longer use the market, contracts or the trading window (in fact, the stations would have to not have any markets).
· You can no longer access or manage POSes and their services (and you obviously can't plunk any POSes down there either).
· You can no longer mine.
· You can no longer shoot rats.
· You can no longer open any kind of container in space.
· You can no longer use the on-board scanner or scan probes.
· You can no longer be in a fleet.
· You can no longer use salvagers.
· You can no longer access the industry interface (and the stations would have no industry slots).
· You can no longer access free-floating permanent sites in space.

Firstly,
This is a subscription based model, so, "eve won't survive" is an ambiguous expression.
There's a number of players required to keep the game running (pay for all servers, pay for all staff), aslong as we have at least that number of players, life is good.

Now you mention Sony, if you mean Starwars online, when that game started it was awesome, it was hard, becomming a jedi meant something and not everyone got to be one.
Then they nerfed the hell out of it (cateering to the carebears) and the game tanked, got dull and died... smooooth.

WoW has gone a similar way except it's aiming it's demographic lower and lower so it's getting enough new people it that it's not showing yet. Plus with only a few thousand players per server, it's easier to massage the figures if they do start to tank.

Now, businesses,

There's a world of difference between the
"we need to make enough money to keep going"
and
"lets make as much as physically possible, damn be to anythign else"

Once you start focusing on purely making money, you tend to miss why you started a company in the first place and no one out there starts an entertainment money becuase "we'll make supermoneytimes".
It's for the love of the product and the belief that if you like it then some one else probably will too.

Once you start looking at "ooo we can pay people 5p an hour instead of minimum wage if we ship out call center to derpadeprastan, damn be if the customer can't understand them" or "hey, if we use these cheap servers that'll fall over ten times a month we can save 5 grand"

There's a ballance,
Starting a company, or doing a job, PURELY for the money it pays, to me at least, has always been doomed from the start.

I think u dont understand the plex-system. Where are the plexes for veterans coming from?

Where does that happen in EVE?

Danger is what draws people to eve. Noobs are protected well in noob systems but no one is ever 100% safe and thats what most eve players are drawn to. Its not mission running, its not accumulating isk, its not manufacturing or mining. There are the megalomaniacs out there that want to build large empires in null-sec and the market guys who get a thrill out of playing the eve market, but I would not call them the a very large portion of the subscriber base. Most of us are here to survive and thrive despite the constant danger. Adds a little excitement to life.

counter argument is a huge number of people would quit if CCP makes a super safe highsec and thus go out of business.

Because EVE is about beng able to do just about anything you want.

Moron.

Sandbox not theme park, moron

Except shoot those on the wrong side of "the law"

I'd rather have EVE populated by 1000 great players willing to take risk than 1 million players who's most intense moment in the game was being locked on by a tutorial mission NPC.