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So, what got you started with EVE?
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T' Elk
Strategically Bad
Goonswarm Federation
#1 - 2012-07-15 04:15:23 UTC
Let's get the ball rolling: For me, I believe I saw one of those rare adverts way back in the day. First MMO I ever really played, and here I am 6 years later, excluding a few months of "refresher quits."

~Badposter since FOOOOREEEEEVAAAAAR~ I come back after 2 years to THIS? ~Now 4 years apparently
Rath Kelbore
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#2 - 2012-07-15 04:18:09 UTC
Searching for a game to try one day and came across a review of eve from 03before or whenever it came out. Rated 6 out of 10. I liked the description and the fact it wasnt a "fantasy" setting. That was about 4 years ago.

I plan on living forever.......so far, so good.
Rer Eirikr
The Scope
#3 - 2012-07-15 04:18:37 UTC
A really, really, really old blog post on an Indie gaming site I used to read. Started playing, got bored, quit.

Came back a year later and haven't left since.
Price Check Aisle3
#4 - 2012-07-15 04:19:03 UTC
I saw a friend playing it one day like six or seven years back, heard about some of the scandals and corp thefts, but pretty much ignored the game because it was an MMO (they still have a sort of stigma in my mind). Fast forward to last April, I was sick and bored on a weekend, remembered EVE and decided to give it a try.

Kinda wish I'd done it a long time ago tbh.
  • Karl Hobb IATS
rareden
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#5 - 2012-07-15 04:30:48 UTC
the pixel demons forced me to do it, still do to this day (why the hell do i play this crappy game)
Alara IonStorm
#6 - 2012-07-15 04:34:22 UTC
I love spaceships and I would watch a friend play it. He showed me the ship veiwer and I could not get enough of it. Then I met my previous girlfriend who loved MMO's and was on an EVE trial account so I got one too. She left the game eventually but I still played and am still playing.
JC Anderson
RED ROSE THORN
#7 - 2012-07-15 04:34:33 UTC  |  Edited by: JC Anderson
I was in the closed beta of eve, and at that time I simply couldn't get into it.

I was playing earth and beyond at the time, and knew somebody in that game that had wanted to get into the Eve beta but missed the deadline to sign up. I gave this individual my beta account in exchange for items in E&B.

Eve eventually went live, and it was rigt around that time that earth and beyond took a nose dive only to be shut down by EA. This resulted in a large number of refugees from that game coming over to eve. Ccp was even targeting people who played e&b with adverts that invited them to come on over to the other side. In all honesty the timing couldn't have been better for them.

I decided to give Eve another try and to my surprise loved it.

I also wantes to strangle myself for giving up my beta access. ;)
EvEa Deva
Doomheim
#8 - 2012-07-15 04:37:52 UTC
Started playing in 2005 Maybe i seen a pop up add when i was playing Planet Side, quit for a year, lost that account after i changed ISPs. Started playing again in 2006 on and off ( more off then on ) like 3 months at a time.

After playing almost every gear grind MMO known to man, Im in eve to stay.
Alavaria Fera
GoonWaffe
#9 - 2012-07-15 04:43:18 UTC
Someone told me I could get blown up repeatedly and somehow annoy people while doing it.

... well the new newbies can web/jam Makalu .

Triggered by: Wars of Sovless Agression, Bending the Knee, Twisting the Knife, Eating Sov Wheaties, Bombless Bombers, Fizzlesov, Interceptor Fleets, Running Away, GhostTime Vuln, Renters, Bombs, Bubbles ?
Creat1v1ty
#10 - 2012-07-15 05:07:21 UTC
I wanted to fly internet spaceships made of pixels.
baltec1
Bat Country
Pandemic Horde
#11 - 2012-07-15 05:12:13 UTC
SWG died and most of the intrepid server pilots came here for our space pew pew fix. We are still hereTwisted
ACE McFACE
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#12 - 2012-07-15 05:13:48 UTC
A friend said "You should play it!" and i was like "But MMO...."
Then I was bored one day and decided to try it. Have never looked back

Now, more than ever, we need a dislike button.
Alpheias
Tactical Farmers.
Pandemic Horde
#13 - 2012-07-15 05:52:14 UTC
Swedish PC Gamer had a article back in 2002 about this bizarre sci-fi space MMO called EVE Online: The Second Genesis that was in development from this remote supposedly-covered-in-ice nation and having played games like Elite, Frontier: Elite 2, X: Beyond The Frontier, Wing Commander, Homeworld and numerous others, I was hooked!

Agent of Chaos, Sower of Discord.

Don't talk to me unless you are IQ verified and certified with three references from non-family members. Please have your certificate of authenticity on hand.
Ecksor
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#14 - 2012-07-15 06:11:35 UTC
Space, that's about it, the ships are a bonus.
Ilnaurk Sithdogron
Blackwater International
#15 - 2012-07-15 06:28:06 UTC
I saw one of those EVE adverts, made two trial accounts before I finally decided to get into the game for real. I took a bit of a break the first few months of 2012, but I've been back for a while now. I don't usually get into MMO's, but EVE stands out from the rest of them by being so wonderfully different.

The fact that there are spaceships and guns instead of horses and swords helps too.

http://eve-sojourn.blogspot.com/
terzslave
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#16 - 2012-07-15 06:36:59 UTC
Hearing that this game needed an economist to monitor the economy. That got me interested so I read up on it. However the one thing that made me decide to play was the trial site showing the commodities with green and red arrows to show prices. As soon as i saw it I creamed myself and subscribed. BRING BACK THE TRIAL SITE WITH THE ARROWS!!!!
Merovee
Gorthaur Legion
Imperium Mordor
#17 - 2012-07-15 06:38:02 UTC
Was playing a space RTSMMO called Mankind, in 03 most of the player base left to do the closed beta, I didn't get in :(. but got in later after Mordor died out in Mankind. Mordor = BoB

Empire, the next new world order.
Abel Merkabah
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#18 - 2012-07-15 06:38:56 UTC
Cracked.com's article on the five biggest **** moves in mmo history got me into it.

James315 for CSM 8!
Omega Sunset
Black.Omega
#19 - 2012-07-15 06:45:37 UTC  |  Edited by: Omega Sunset
Dunkin Donuts was giving away free EVE accounts with purchase of three dozen donuts and a small coffee.


Oh wait that wasn't it...
SWG:NGE Ugh
Drifted in sometime after the catastrophe.
Donuts sound better...

EnB->SWG->EVE
Bearclaw->Devils food->Apple Fritter
Small coffee

—Ω—
Patrakele
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#20 - 2012-07-15 06:48:42 UTC
EVE Never Fades

Way back, this vid impressed me so much Smile

It' still pretty awesome after all those years. Love the music.
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