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Eve Valkyrie... good idea to compete with SC? you tell me

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Jenn aSide
Worthless Carebears
The Initiative.
#41 - 2014-09-05 18:41:14 UTC
Cipher Jones wrote:
Jenn aSide wrote:
Cipher Jones wrote:
Jenn aSide wrote:
I'll be happy when Star citizen and all these other space games launch so that they can join SWTOR, Black Prophecy, Jumpgate, Star Trek Online, Star Wars Galaxies and the dozen other games that over the last 11 years held the mantle of "new game that's going to have an affect on EVE so CCP better do something about it now!!!!"..

Side note, none of them had any affect on EVE at all. At least after SC comes out we can embark on the next "what game is gonna do it" speculation fest. Potential Irony: EVE Valkyrie is gonna kill EVE.


Go look at eve-offline.net and tell me those games didn't any effect on Eve. Less people playing Eve today than on my first day in 2009.





What does "today" have to do with the games i mentioned, the last of which came out in 2011.


"Today" less people are playing Eve, many of the people who left did so to go to one or more of those games.


I'm sure there are many former EVE players playing SWG, Black Prophecy and Jumpgate right this moment. It doesn't matter in the least that those games don't exist at all lol.

You've lost the plot here, the point is that people predicted that those games would kill EVE. Not only did those games not kill EVE, EVE has survived most of them and grew the entire time those games were supposed to be a threat.

Hell, SWG (a sandbox originally) was closer in general concept that the future heavily instanced thempark Star Citizen ever will be and even it didn't cause any problems for EVE Online. Like Tippia said, the only measurable dip related to a game launch came from Diablo 3.

I get it, you're gone when SC launches. I say have fun.
Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#42 - 2014-09-05 18:47:54 UTC
Cipher Jones wrote:
"Today" less people are playing Eve, many of the people who left did so to go to one or more of those games.
…except that not a single one of them correlate with any reduction in player activity.
Cipher Jones
The Thomas Edwards Taco Tuesday All Stars
#43 - 2014-09-05 19:20:43 UTC
Tippia wrote:
Cipher Jones wrote:
"Today" less people are playing Eve, many of the people who left did so to go to one or more of those games.
…except that not a single one of them correlate with any reduction in player activity.


Player influx is X number of players over Y amount of time. New games slowing the influx don't have to drop subs on the tranquility monitor in a negative direction to cause the final outcome. The final outcome of course is that less people are playing Eve and more people are playing those games than before they were launched.

internet spaceships

are serious business sir.

and don't forget it
Domanique Altares
Rifterlings
#44 - 2014-09-05 19:33:10 UTC
It's always a good idea for one vaporware product to compete with another.
baltec1
Bat Country
Pandemic Horde
#45 - 2014-09-05 19:37:51 UTC  |  Edited by: baltec1
Cipher Jones wrote:
Tippia wrote:
Cipher Jones wrote:
"Today" less people are playing Eve, many of the people who left did so to go to one or more of those games.
…except that not a single one of them correlate with any reduction in player activity.


Player influx is X number of players over Y amount of time. New games slowing the influx don't have to drop subs on the tranquility monitor in a negative direction to cause the final outcome. The final outcome of course is that less people are playing Eve and more people are playing those games than before they were launched.


EVE stole me from SWG when the NGE happened, infact I think you can find the bulk of SWG bittervets around here. Even the CEO of SOE is an avid EVE player.
Jarod Garamonde
Jolly Codgers
Get Off My Lawn
#46 - 2014-09-05 20:01:51 UTC  |  Edited by: Jarod Garamonde
PotatoOverdose wrote:
Jarod Garamonde wrote:
Plot Twist: Erotica1 is the SC dev.

That....that actually explains quite a bit. Legitimate spacehips developer FTW.



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That moment when you realize the crazy lady with all the cats was right...

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ISD Ezwal
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
ISD Alliance
#47 - 2014-09-05 20:12:22 UTC
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