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Why did you start playing EVE?

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Xtreem
Knockaround Guys Inc.
#121 - 2012-12-29 19:16:30 UTC
A forum post on a forum I was Very active on at the time, played the beta a bit, left, then came back... Nov 2003 i picked it up properly, and never again left!

so much has changed, I joined and had 0 kids a gf and lived at home, iv now moved county (state for u Americans) different gf and 4 kids! it really is crazy how things change.
Seldarine
Resolute Supremacy
#122 - 2012-12-29 19:29:47 UTC
I started playing Eve in may 2003 because I was waiting for Star Wars Galaxies to be released, randomly heard about Eve on some website and thought I would try Eve out first.

Never bothered with SWG after all.
The Mec
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#123 - 2012-12-29 20:57:31 UTC
the awesome graphics
Sylveria Relden
#124 - 2012-12-29 21:28:10 UTC  |  Edited by: Sylveria Relden
Cyprus Black wrote:
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.


^ this.

I simply removed the carrot from the "carrot and stick" mentality- in EVE there really *is* no carrot. Just whatever you want to do, whenever you wish to do it. And the number one rule to remember I've learned is "action = consequence" for better or worse.

TL;DR If you didn't read the entire post perhaps you're probably ADHD. (seek help)
Liam Inkuras
Furnace
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
#125 - 2012-12-29 21:34:19 UTC
Because I liked the looks of the ibis

I wear my goggles at night.

Any spelling/grammatical errors come complimentary with my typing on a phone
ISD Ezwal
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
ISD Alliance
#126 - 2012-12-29 22:00:44 UTC
I filled in the survey but will repeat my answer here:

-Science Fiction setting
-Science Fiction setting
-Science Fiction setting
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-RL friends already playing EvE and asking me to join them

Mind you, that was why I started playing EvE. The reasons I stayed would generate a list that would be so long, it would probably break the forum rules. Now we don't want that do we?...Blink


Did I mention the Science Fiction setting? Yeah, that too....Big smile

ISD Ezwal Community Communication Liaisons (CCLs)
Sevgei Ertekin
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#127 - 2012-12-29 22:08:18 UTC
Random browsing, saw sci-fi spaceships game. Started trial. Flew my noobship to an asteroid belt in Tama, died to a Taranis while cluelessly watching a Retriever mine (he died too). Subbed.
leoplusma
Delfus Inc.
#128 - 2012-12-29 22:19:53 UTC
"Why did you start playing EVE?"

To chat with you in this forum and yet not answer the question.

So it must have been the sandbox principle.
psycho freak
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#129 - 2012-12-29 22:26:19 UTC
posting in yet another goon nurf hisec thread

my spelling sux brb find phone number for someone who gives a fu*k

nop cant find it
Commander Ted
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#130 - 2012-12-29 22:26:20 UTC
I quit world of warcraft and googled popular MMO's.

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=174097 Separate all 4 empires in eve with lowsec.
Loco Kamikaze
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#131 - 2012-12-29 23:32:05 UTC
EVErquest wat

that I should worry about losing my hearing is nonsense, because there will always be -=BASS=-
Shamus O'Reilly
Candy Cabal
#132 - 2012-12-29 23:43:40 UTC  |  Edited by: Shamus O'Reilly
The first time i had heard of the game i had just believed it to be another fantasy game and associated it with Everquest just by name's sake.
Loco Kamikaze wrote:
EVErquest wat

^^^ This

Then a buddy on WoT told me about it truthfully. Even before i started playing i knew i would be hooked. A sandbox game full of treachery and deceit based on a sci-fi sim in space with a full blown player based market surrounded by PvP in the form of guns and money just made me wanna cry from happiness (then my manhood took over, chose Gallente due to its backstory of being free, and... started... mining.... for a week then started trying to kill all the things!) Big smile

"I swear there are more people complaining over "nullsecers complaining" then actual nullsec people complaining."
Albi Desphair
Profound Destiny
#133 - 2012-12-30 00:10:33 UTC
Haven't been playing too long, but I love Eve. I needed something different from the usual boring MMO's that I've always played. Plus I love the sci-fi setting, it's a beautiful world.
Meldorn Vaash
State War Academy
Caldari State
#134 - 2012-12-30 01:58:59 UTC
I found the "Eve Never Fades" video and was intrigued enough to try the game.

I did a couple trials worth of game time in 2005 and then life happened.

In 2007, I was cleaning out my email and came across the confirmation email for this account. I decided to give it another go and subscribed that day. I've been playing ever since.
"Irony can be pretty ironic sometimes."
La Nariz
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#135 - 2012-12-30 14:36:22 UTC
Less than four hours remaining lets try to push 300 responses Big smile.

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Lipbite
Express Hauler
#136 - 2012-12-30 14:55:41 UTC  |  Edited by: Lipbite
1) survey has different question: why did you try EVE?
1.1) because I've tried literally every MMO game back when there were just handful of them unlike today.

2) I've started to play EVE because
2.1) I wanted sci-fi game
2.2.) I wanted sandbox
2.3) tutorials were improved to make the game actually comprehensive to a person with 130 IQ (finally 6 years after release after like 5 trial attempts).
Mister S Burke
Doomheim
#137 - 2012-12-30 15:59:13 UTC
I like dinosaurs. Now I wonder how many people will get that.
celebro
Ember Inc.
Curatores Veritatis Alliance
#138 - 2012-12-30 16:01:11 UTC
Read a good review on a pc magazine way back in 2005, was really hard to get into specially since it was my first mmo, I like the space genre and the open world/sandbox that make EVE a great game.
La Nariz
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#139 - 2012-12-30 18:06:49 UTC
Thank you to all who participated the data and interpretation will be out Soon(tm).

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Ritsum
Perkone
Caldari State
#140 - 2012-12-30 18:50:31 UTC
Liaria Cullen wrote:
Test and Goonswarm videos on youtube, Stumbled across them one day and it was all downhill from there.



For me it was the Rooks and kings video's. Those are so great to watch!

Also why wouldn't you want to play Internet Space Ships?

Play EvE how you want to play it and do not let others dictate how you play. Evolve your playstyle to protect yourself from others! Even in "PVE", "PVP" is there, lurking in the shadows.