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Why did you start playing EVE?

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La Nariz
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2012-12-23 18:06:03 UTC  |  Edited by: La Nariz
In an effort to resolve the, "should highsec be nerfed" debate one of the things we have to determine is why new players decide to try EVE.

So GD why did you start playing EVE?
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/W897RW2

I'll keep the survey open for one week then bring some interesting raw data and statistics. Please fill out the survey Big smile.


E: Survey has been closed, thank you to all who participated. Raw data and interpretations will be out Soon(tm). They will be posted here on GD.

E2: Data entry is complete.

E3: Data analysis is complete.

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Mars Theran
Foreign Interloper
#2 - 2012-12-23 18:10:55 UTC
It's complicated.
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Johan Civire
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#3 - 2012-12-23 18:12:30 UTC  |  Edited by: Johan Civire
Friends playing in sinds begin of eve. I started with eve online when I saw the trailer of Revelations. After I saw that I started playing eve online. I miss the login music.

Also no KS no XP not online to have skills. And you can do whatever you want.
La Nariz
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#4 - 2012-12-23 18:13:27 UTC
Mars Theran wrote:
It's complicated.


I'm sure the box has enough characters for you to explain should you choose to Big smile.

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Romvex
TURN LEFT
#5 - 2012-12-23 18:13:34 UTC
I'm not going to get into the details, but it involved a toaster, a bag of peas and a rhinoceros. It wasn't pretty.
Varius Xeral
Doomheim
#6 - 2012-12-23 18:15:38 UTC
For the ladies.

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Cyprus Black
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#7 - 2012-12-23 18:17:13 UTC
Done.

I used to be a hardcore WoW raider back in the day. But with each content patch and expansion came gear wipes. I got sick of the never ending treadmill and left. My college roommate was heavily into EvE and recommended it.

Summary of EvEs last four expansions: http://imgur.com/ZL5SM33
Liaria Cullen
Pulling The Plug
PURPLE HELMETED WARRIORS
#8 - 2012-12-23 18:17:17 UTC
Test and Goonswarm videos on youtube, Stumbled across them one day and it was all downhill from there.
Etherealclams
#9 - 2012-12-23 18:17:42 UTC
Sandbox nature.

http://aclamthatrants.blogspot.com/ Read up on my adventures.
Myfanwy Heimdal
Heimdal Freight and Manufacture Inc
#10 - 2012-12-23 18:18:26 UTC
Filled in that box, and I wonder how many Eve players used to play SuperNova II...

Pam:  I wonder what my name means in Welsh?Nessa: Why?
Gotch Urarse
The Legion of Spoon
Curatores Veritatis Alliance
#11 - 2012-12-23 18:20:32 UTC
Played Elite in high-school, stumbled across this.
Oberine Noriepa
#12 - 2012-12-23 18:25:02 UTC
Done.

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Bohoba
#13 - 2012-12-23 18:27:09 UTC
lol Earth and behond :)

closed it doors

corp moved to eve

that was in 2004 :) got hooked
Beekeeper Bob
Beekeepers Anonymous
#14 - 2012-12-23 18:28:46 UTC
La Nariz wrote:
In an effort to resolve the, "should highsec be nerfed" debate one of the things we have to determine is why new players decide to try EVE.

So GD why did you start playing EVE?
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/W897RW2

I'll keep the survey open for one week then bring some interesting raw data and statistics. Please fill out the survey Big smile.



Why do people think that the GD posters represent a cross-section of the EVE playerbase? Oops


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Adam Junior
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#15 - 2012-12-23 18:30:23 UTC
I really like spaceships and EVE Online has spaceships.
La Nariz
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#16 - 2012-12-23 18:33:03 UTC
Beekeeper Bob wrote:
La Nariz wrote:
In an effort to resolve the, "should highsec be nerfed" debate one of the things we have to determine is why new players decide to try EVE.

So GD why did you start playing EVE?
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/W897RW2

I'll keep the survey open for one week then bring some interesting raw data and statistics. Please fill out the survey Big smile.



Why do people think that the GD posters represent a cross-section of the EVE playerbase? Oops




Feel free to spam this threads link in local too, feel free to find the most populated forum and post a link to this thread here Big smile. This will in no way be comparable to a peer-reviewed scientific journal but the data is still worth it.

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Nalha Saldana
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#17 - 2012-12-23 18:44:03 UTC
Isn't the highsec nerfs about high ends highsec stuff and not what the noobs use?
La Nariz
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#18 - 2012-12-23 18:44:58 UTC
Nalha Saldana wrote:
Isn't the highsec nerfs about high ends highsec stuff and not what the noobs use?


I'm not really sure what you're getting at here but thanks for filling out the survey.

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Ares Desideratus
UNSAFE SPACE
#19 - 2012-12-23 19:11:27 UTC  |  Edited by: Ares Desideratus
"To me, Eve Online is easily in the top 5 of GoaT (Greatest of all Time) video games. It should be more popular (but sadly people are stupid).

And the way I see it, anybody who enjoys good art / eye candy would love Eve. Putting Eve in a nutshell it's a world with over 7500 star systems laden with deep and heavy nebulae and space stuff, also filled with beautiful planets, suns, space stations and ships. Besides that it's gotta have one of the darkest (yet most beautiful) atmospheres in the MMO world, with corporate warfare and espionage being the main way of the community, and a disturbing back-story about how a race of beings called capsuleers dubbed as "immortals" fight each for god knows how long over various assets in the universe.

That's why I play. Sure, I PvP on occasion. Yeah, I gank a miner every once in a while and run the crap out of missions every time I need some money... but without the beauty of Eve and pure joy I've gotten over the years just from exploring space (anywhere in Eve, high-sec null-sec it don't matter), I wouldn't play it just for PvP, or just for High-Sec missions, or just to make money buying and selling stuff. I play it because it's just fun to look at and it's epic being in a universe THAT huge to me.

I just realized that your question was "Why did you START playing?" and I answered with "Why I currently play..." but that is just a derp of language, indeed the reasons stated above are why I started playing in the first place and why I will most likely play till I'm in daipers."

i wonder if that's even an acceptable answer
Malcanis
Vanishing Point.
The Initiative.
#20 - 2012-12-23 19:27:43 UTC
La Nariz wrote:
In an effort to resolve the, "should highsec be nerfed" debate one of the things we have to determine is why new players decide to try EVE.

So GD why did you start playing EVE?
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/W897RW2

I'll keep the survey open for one week then bring some interesting raw data and statistics. Please fill out the survey Big smile.



I heard it was a place that you could run the same, totally predictable, unchallenging PvE content over and over and over and over without ever talking to anyone. There aren't any other games that let you do this, so I subbed up.

"Just remember later that I warned against any change to jump ranges or fatigue. You earned whats coming."

Grath Telkin, 11.10.2016
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