EVE General Discussion

...and bleeding frustrating. I've been playing EVE for coming on eight years now, I love it, I'm emotionally invested in it...

My response to projects like DUST and Valkyrie is "Great!". I don't understand how EVE fans can be anything but enthusiastic about more EVE. New ways to get into the setting, new ways to interact with other players, new angles on the universe. When CCP turn their attention to expanding the setting in the hopes of pulling more people in, it makes me more confident about the future of EVE, not less. I don't see how somebody can bemoan and insult these projects and still call themselves fans of the game.

CCP are not stupid. Daring, yes, but they aren't idiots. They wouldn't be doing this if they didn't have good reason to believe it would turn out profitably and well in the long run.

Maybe Valkyrie and DUST don't turn out to be the huge blockbuster hits of 2013/14. Who cares? EVE wasn't the blockbuster MMO of 2003. But here we are, ten years on, still producing legends and awed news articles, still being awesome, still swaggering around needing a fleet of freighters to carry our enormous tungsten balls. This despite EVE originally being a buggy, badly optimised, barely-playable piece of crap all but devoid of content when it was released.

Maybe DUST isn't the AAA shooter of the year. But I'll make you a bet - I bet DUST will still be around at Fanfest 2023. If Valkyrie is TQ-based, I bet it will be there too. And I bet by then they'll both have carved their own legendary niche and produce BBC news articles, alongside their parent game.

If you don't believe in that and want to make it happen, why are you even playing this game?

I read this, and some of my bitterness actually melted away. Only some mind. Reading this reminded me of how I used to post probably about a year ago. I've obviously gotten quite bitter since. I think the problem I am having is that I arrived during Apocrypha when everything was amazing, and played through with uninterrupted sub and essentially the prime of my Eve playing life was spent through a period where things were improving and expanding fast. That's not the case anymore, the impact the last three expansions have had on me don't really compare. I've become bitter because I enjoyed the previous expansions too damn much and want more of the same.

Hopefully we'll see another period as good as that at some point.

So don't buy it.
No one is forcing you. It runs on a different engine, so just as with Dust, it will *have* to be a seperate game.

All who say eve is a product of ccp and they can do everrything they want with us you are just all sheeps,
If I see something wrong I stand up agaist it, starting from how forums have became to nonexistents expasnions,
I guess all the ones that had the guts to stand against this left after they felt like I feel from long time now,
not listened, it freaks me out to see how many "sheeps" there are now that do whatever they boss say...

All who say eve is a product of ccp and they can do everrything they want with us you are just all sheeps,

ut adding a different kind of space and the possibility to access it through player-built gates.

I would love to launch a bunch of guys from a Nyx (or other carrier). How awesome would that be?

If you dont have guys, your fighter(bomber) use AI control.

Might get too complicated tho. If you can mannually fly a fighter, why not a frig etc

What we are saying is that the recent expansions have been pretty good, as a whole we are pretty happy with the development of EVE, and we understand that CCP is running a business... not a "do as Reptail commands" service.

If you personally don't like the game and how it is being developed, vote with your wallet. Otherwise be prepared for people to point out where your "opinion" falls short of reality.

Well, Everquest Next is based on building your own towns and capitals....

And with Eve being a sandbox, accessing new space through PLAYER made gates would maybe link to.... PLAYER made Empire maybe? Just think of all the industry and mining that would be needed for that! Let alone the battles and contests for that real estate!

Or use a skewed view and think of the current real estate and how that will change, requiring more of... everything, in our current highsec!

Unless you're talking about mission running. In that case, who cares.

Last time they talked about new space, new opportunities, new frontier was about Odissey; and what we got is exploration destroyed and replaced with a Pac-Man minigame.