EVE General Discussion

Yeah. I'd wear one of those.


Um, well not on this character. Ok, I'll get my coat on the way out. Hope it isn't see through too.

EVE is perfect the way it is .. we dont need a *all nice superhero fluffy puff reputation* here.

Exactly this. I went over how intended audiences work on another thread. For every intended audience, there's an unintended audience that will try it out anyway. Some will become the intended audience by virtue of enjoying what they're trying and adapting to it, but many of the unintended audience will quit. EVE's reputation is attractive to its intended audience, and its intended audience are the ones who develop passion for the game, ergo, the unintended audience who might find this reputation to be a put-off was never gonna stick around anyway, in which case, the reputation is doing us all a huge favour by driving away the players who won't develop said passion and contribute nothing to the EVE community dynamic anyway, except their butthurt tears.

Additionally, for every intended audience that's already playing the game, there is always a potential intended audience that just haven't tried it yet. If you think EVE's subs aren't growing, and these threads pop up the same time every year, right around summer when most people are doing stuff other than playing video games, then you are confused. You are basing your conclusion on a single data set that is not representative of the whole. It's like saying, "jeez, it must always be this hot around here because that's what it is right now at midday in the middle of summer."

translucent

translucent > transparent


watch Star Trek

Sure, the second they stop spewing death threats and sexual insults in local when someone uses the "P word".

Posting in a stealth "I'm an Alpha Nerd because I play EVE" thread.

This guy gets it.

This.

There are millions of players who love to play "politically correct", traditional style, sword and board games.

Then there's the only MMO that caters to "the others", that takes its pride at being different.

Not by random chance, the MMOs catering to the former are all flattened around FEW titles, one of which still holding strong and killing the imitations. The MMO catering to the latter has no relevant competition and actually survives despite its age and flaws also because of that.


So, make EvE switch sides and become "like all the others" and it will fail like most of the others, it'll lose many years loyal players who don't identify themselves with the major numbers while not attracting enough of the traditional players (who don't even care about space sci fi).

EvE can either die a quick death by flipping sides, or slowly age and fade by staying true.

Maybe if you actually understood how many predators can be supported by a prey population you wouldn't be on the forums so much, spewing this hogwash. The determination of highsec predators to destroy their own playstyle is phenomenal.

oh for gods sake.

CODE has spent nearly 350B isk on being CODE, and probably killed twice that amount, making a literal 1T of market space for players to provide goods to without flooding the market or ruining its prices.

if you wanted to look in the face of players "caring" for the game, that's where you need to look.

If you want a nullsec example, PL is not part of the CFC, for the obvious reason that would be the literal end of nullsec.