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This is true

Im so glad you are one of us forum posters, and not the majority, Dino

not having the, um, 'community' EVE does might be one of its bigger pIus points.

Star Citizen isn't even an MMO its a massivley Expandable version of Wing Commander. A great game in its own right but no competitor to Eve online.

Decent comparison IMHO.

The problem for Star Citizen will be the same for pretty much all instanced games - the economy is too small to function without npc involvement which makes things predictable. Eve had the same problem at launch so there was npc buy orders up all over the place - single server meant CCP could gradually phase the npc "traders" out of the game for anything other than seeding skills/BPOs/missions.

A predictable market usually equals rampant inflation within a year or so - clever kids get rich first, takes the majority a long time to work things out.

That was the case in Eve too in the days when "downtime haulers" could buy/haul required items before DT then login & fill every npc order in the region immediately after DT. Predictable market & those able to benefit got very rich very fast.

The player-based economy drives Eve but it requires a single server as you need a critical mass of players to lose the npc "support".

Take away the economy of Eve & I doubt any of us (even PvPrs) would be playing it.

This is it.

I don't think this is quite accurate.

Based on statics, yes forums posters and the minority, they always are, however, they tend to be a large enough sample size that you can get really good data on what the community as whole believe. If eve has 500k accounts, and lets go with 250k subscribers (everyone has 2 accounts) and lets say you have an average of 2500 people who post on the forums that's a sample size of 1%, which you can get a rather decent sized picture of the whole.

As an aside, I'm not much of a pvper, I tend to be a middle of the road player, I do industry and boring crap, I die a lot, and only pvp if I feel like it (which is rare) yet eve, is the only game that pretty much offers nearly everything I want in an mmo.

Now, will some people quit eve to play SC? sure, this happens all the time. People left when STO came out, SW:TOR, LOTRO, ETC. Some don't come back, some return and bring friends with them, and others just return.

Usually, people return because the game gets borning, and dull. Or, they find that eve has something they want and other games are lacking. I think, SC will have an impact on eve, but tbh I doubt you will see people leave in droves. Even if its an awesome game, there are plently of people who will play both games, or leave for a bit and come back. As I said in other threads, SC and ED could be GOOD for ccp. If they light fires undr there butts and get them to fix and improve eve, then i'm all for competition. But, SC is a different beast then eve, some eve players will love it, some will like it, some will meh about it. Its still serveal years off, I doubt we will see it till 2016, esp with them pushing back DFM a few months to recently.

Anyway, my point is, the only reason people think ti will hurt eve is the hype. But hype is hype. Roberts track record of brining out everything he wants compaired to whats released is not very good. The game that comes out is a fraction of what he wanted, and is good, but not even close to what was promised. Only time will tell, and I have a feeling, SC will not play or be how people think it will and we will see a lot less hype when its out.

I "migrated" to World Of Tanks, but left because of the lack of Walking in Sangars

Solaris is basically the same film for the same audience as Armageddon, isn't it?

People who like terrible movies? Yeah pretty much

Oh sorry, Im an idiot

I thought you meant the remake


I cant stand space-madness