EVE General Discussion

Oh look, it's the "PC is dead!" thread from 1990!

Um...X86/64 based systems are not going away anytime soon. Quite the opposite actually. If you think that 5 years from now you won't be able to load up EVE on your tablet and play you're sadly mistaken.

Take for instance these little jewels. While not quite powerful enough to play EVE it won't be long before they are.

The full version of Windows 8 will be running on Microsofts next tablet due out this spring. Not just the lousy touch interface portion but the full version. That means anything that can run on your PC will likely run on a tablet as long as it's got the juice to do so. This means more and easier connectivity with your PC and home network. Which will lead to increased adoption of the technology, because who doesn't want to fire up their PC remotely and play a game from time to time. Hell I can play EVE from my iPad using a third party app that streams the video and inputs over my home network. It's not easy and takes a bit of getting used to but it can be done.

So tell me again how the PC is dying and ARM processors will take over the world. It's just a matter of scaleabilty and time before the X86/64 based systems are back on top.

So no the PC will not die anytime soon. Sorry about bursting your bubble.

It's been stated some time ago that 'only' 20% of active EVE accounts are alt accounts. While i don't know how true this statement is today, i'd wager EVE has at least 300-350k unique subscribers which is still a remarkable achievement in today's market.

People vastly overestimate the amount of subscribers with multiple accounts.



Neither Star Citizen nor E:D are MMO's.

One is limited to 100 players per server, with very few actual sandbox elements (the market is almost entirely NPC seeded for example). The fact that it allows mods aswell along with custom server rules will ensure for a heavily fractured community.

The other is limited to 32 player multiplayer basically - You play in your own instance of the universe, where you can share it with other players either at random or selectively, up to a maximum of 32. It will also have an almost exclusively NPC seeded market.

EVE's biggest strength does not lie in it's sandbox or open pvp alone, but the fact that everyone shares the same universe (putting China aside, though i have hope the servers could be merged some time in the future). There is only one instance of every location in the game. If you and anyone else go to place X, you will see each other. Neither SC nor ED have this 'feature' and i'd be willing to bet that the vast majority of EVE players will cite this as the most important reason for playing this game.

Currently there's no other game even being conceived that has the same raw ambitions as EVE, or the single server setup. In that way, it doesn't have competition, but when it does finally happen EVE will have at least 20 years of development behind it.

No sorry, and I say that as someone who plays EVE on Linux myself (Win 98 was my last Windows, long time ago). But the 0.1% (or something) of people that actually played the game on Linux with the official client did not justify the effort CCP put into it.

Also that client was just crap. I installed it tried to play and switched to wine + Windows client after a week.

The only reasonable way to get support for Linux back is to support wine as a Platform because that would mean one client and Linux + Mac support over wine. The Mac port is some sort of ancient wine bundle anyway. This would actually reduce CCPs effort in terms of different clients. Not so much in terms of support, so there has to be a market otherwise it makes no sense.

But first it would be a good idea to lean back and let Valve sort out the driver mess. They could even deliver it on steam even if it runs on wine, from what i hear others do this as well.

And even if they don't support it. It works anyway.

And to OPs "omg the PC is dying!!":

AGAIN?

Everytime this stuff gets postet in the EVE O forums it reminds me off this

When you have been PC gaming for 2 decades you will also start getting tired of hearing the "PC is dead" mantra every two months.

Everybody have been PC gaming for 2 decades, mate.
Doesn't change that people on Eve-O are extremely conservative and lack vision.

You spent 4k on a custom built computer.......

Lol fail.

Bigger is better

I've got 24"

My wife prefers 50"

Ask her what she thinks about your 4"

I'll switch to a new gaming platform when one better than my personal computer is available. That platform is not a console, and it's definitely not some ****** tablet that I can poke at with my finger like a goddamn ape.

Show us a tablet that can run EVE.