EVE General Discussion

Let's talk about the good and bad stuff that comes with it.

For starters, I think the active eve population will go up, by a lot. Possible reaching 200.000 players on a normal day.

I also think, we will have 4~7 cloaky neutrals in every null sec system, that afk all day.

Jita will stil be limited to roughly 2000 players, but instead. The entire constellation will be nearly full. Reaching Jita would be impossible.

Suicide freighter ganks are more easily attained. As 1 guy could get 150 free to play accounts and use rifters to suicide on 1 Freighter.

The bittervets and other old carebear people will quit the game. But instead for every one of them, eve online gets 30 free to play players (who would probably never pay or barely go for microtransactions).

Time Dilation is a natural thing, as it will affect everyone, for the whole time. Fleet op Fights will probably resulting in a lot of server crashes.

But there are some good things too that come with it. We will have more people to play with! I, believe that eve online currently is a stable game, and due to this, will attract a lot of new players if it were to become free to play.

However the game will be changed so much, it won't be eve as we know it.

It's all Bad.

slaves should be seen not heard girl. See the teribad things you say

Let's scare those rich people with communism to manipulate them easier!

F2P isn't that bad as microtransactions in subscriptions-based game. Quote from Sean's interview ~6 months ago:

I see the world as a microtransaction

P.S. I'd pay $49 for optional Incarna expansion

WoW says hello.

PvE game (and the devs will flat tell you that's their focus) with consensual PvP. #1 in the industry.

What you will get are all the freeloaders in gaming, who use up the resources, pollute the environment and the game sinks due to it all.

Because gaming is NOT free. Someone is paying for it.

No money by all, no goods for all.

(Shudder) I remember the childlike excitement of receiving my SWTOR collectors ed box, playing in the beta and looking forward to that.

Then actually playing it live was such a disappointment....sad panda!

They basically turned it into a totally partition dungeon version of wow.

EVE is best with the level of players and seeing it in 2004 with about 10k on server at once to yesterday with some 46k, I don't think the game is in danger of any stagnation, its such a slow burner.

I find the microtransaction model is just a bit gimmicky tbh.

I rather see a future with less trolls.

/c

Fewer.

OP, please biomass.

I don't like F2P but I do like SomebodyElsePaysForMyPlay which is truely what Eve is.