EVE General Discussion

Looks like "Crucible" has been a very successful expansion and re-heated the interest of many former EVE players.

This conclusion comes out of some numbers I'm seing regarding EVEMon.
Since we released EVEMon 1.5.3 on 7th December 2011 (EVEMon update for Crucible), we had close to 50000 downloads in 1 day, when we normally reach that number in a 10-15 days period.

I'm sure that Mr. Hilmar (CCP CEO) has already noticed that by the spike on reactivated subscriptions and PCU.

In conclusion, the "lesson was learned" (I'm sure Mr Hilmar and Mr Arnar know what I'm talking about), so all CCP staff deserves a "Well done, guys" from all us members of the EVE community.

On behalf of
The EVEMon Dev Team

Posting in a thread about software that works, and that I use, like, trust and recommend wholeheartedly for a change.

Oh wait, this is just authored by an EVEMon guy, it's not an EVEMon thread. NVM then.

If you think CCP has learned their lesson, you don't understand human nature and you haven't really been paying attention.

You'll know CCP has learned their lesson when:

The overview works every time. Fundamental game mechanics (like warping) work every time.

Aurum is gone.

Fearless is a newsletter that CCP would be happy to let its customers read. (In fact, there should be no internal correspondence that would outrage the playerbase. If you're doing something that you know would **** us off if we found out, stop doing it!)

CCP stops meddling in the in-game economy (particularly the PLEX market) and fully discloses any 'exceptions' to that policy.

The QEN returns with all the old information and more.

ISK faucets roughly match up with ISK sinks.

CCP stops using anonymous 'white knight' alts on forums.

CCP stops taking assclown CSM members seriously, even if they're in the same alliance as the lead CCP developer.

CCP makes reasonably informative disclosures about what steps they've taken to combat bots and botting. ('Trust me, it's complicated, just press that placebo button.' doesn't count.)

Like I said, a long way from learning their lesson. But realistically, do you expected fully formed adults to change? To develop integrity, pride in the product they sell, a commitment to the virtual world (sandbox) of New Eden? Good luck with that.

Traffic in the forums is generally up too, with a fair amount of rather newbie threads in some sections.
Not quite up to the level back in the heydays, but at least it isn't slipping.

Now, if only the market would wake up from its sluggish slumber ... ...

No MMOs, except perhaps the perpetual underdog Perpetuum, and the forever in development Infinity (I see what I did there) are competition for EVE, as those are the only other two sandbox MMOs that I know of. As you're undoubtedly referring to The Old Republic in regard to new MMOs this month, I think you should keep in mind that in EVE's eight years, it has faced numerous juggernaut MMOs, and none of them have affected EVE's subscription base in a noticeable way. In all likelihood, the only thing that will ever kill EVE is CCP (as they almost did this past Summer). No other MMORPG developers are putting out products that are in anyway near the quality, potential, or substance of EVE. Their products are barely in the same genre or class as EVE (which made it all the more frustrating to see CCP stoop to their level in the past year).


As for Crucible being successful, it does appear so. I can only hope that CCP remembers any lessons it learned from its misadventures in neglecting EVE in the pursuit of space Barbies and MTs, and never repeats those mistakes.

I think the worst we would see is people here posting pics of TOR after release, but pics cant be used here so we will see lots of links to it.

One must adapt to Barbie's dream clothes, before one recieves Barbies dream house, or Barbie's dream hippy commune.

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Server traffic can be seen on right hand corner of this site: www.eveonline.com

there used to be 50-60k players online.

yeah, it's a success alright

Do you take pleasure in finding something to ***** about at every opportunity?

I also love how pretty much half of your post is baseless :tinfoil:.

I come back after an year of hiding. I'm still waiting for updates to FW!!!