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How do you explain EVE to friends

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Lucas Kell
Solitude Trading
S.N.O.T.
#41 - 2014-11-11 19:28:03 UTC
I say:
It's an addictive game which many claim is dark or hardcore but is actually one of the easiest games there is. It's got space in it. You probably won't like it.

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NIFTYGetAtMe
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#42 - 2014-11-11 20:11:40 UTC
It's simple dude: Autism.
ashley Eoner
#43 - 2014-11-11 23:45:12 UTC
I explain it to friends as an oldschool space based MMORPG with an interface straight out of 2005 and players that think they are special solely because they play the game. The learning curve is easy and the gameplay is more forgivable then the hard MMORPGS out there.
Rain6639
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#44 - 2014-11-12 01:10:45 UTC
Graygor wrote:
Rain6637 wrote:
I don't. EVE is high on the list of things not worth trying to make people understand


This pretty much.

Because invariably 'can i get out of my ship and go on the planets' pops up in the first 2 minutes. Every, single, time.

the last time I mentioned EVE was this past week. the guy started talking about it in general terms as if he knew all about it, because his girlfriend was there and he's a wannabe hipster film major.
somedudeinaship
Star Whorz
#45 - 2014-11-12 01:13:40 UTC
Why would you try to explain that you play a game in which skills must sometimes be trained for months or even up to a year before you can do something? I know most would likely look at you like you were all nuts. Who would play such a game?
Rain6637
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#46 - 2014-11-12 02:59:06 UTC
we might be autists but at least we don't have ADD.

I do, however, happen to find great enjoyment riding bicycles.

Help, I can't download EVE

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Omar Alharazaad
New Eden Tech Support
#47 - 2014-11-12 04:45:33 UTC
It's a space sim for butthurt armchair psychoanalysts who are just waiting for that big break.

Also, most of my friends already know about EVE, and their reactions tend to waver between horror and arousal.
I have messed up friends... I should have listened to my DT's.

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Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#48 - 2014-11-12 04:53:51 UTC
I tell them this:

Eve is a game where your experience may vary depending on your attitude going into it. people with a good sense of HTFU will find it rather pleasant , while those who dont will simply feel as if they are trying to pass a pinecone through their lower GI tract.


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Raviel Oxidans
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#49 - 2014-11-12 04:54:18 UTC
to my friends? those which play candy crush and farm heros and all that ****?

I dont bother in that.


But if i had a friend interested in real videogames, i would explain that Eve is a game of spaceships and have a very intensive atmosphere and of course, is very hard to learn to play.
Claud Tiberius
#50 - 2014-11-12 04:55:39 UTC  |  Edited by: Claud Tiberius
An MMO in-the-future space sim in 3rd Person, with boring pve, CoD skins, time walls and pay-to-win or (if you don't pay-to-win) grinding.

Oh and a obsession for tables in pvp.

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Josef Djugashvilis
#51 - 2014-11-12 08:17:23 UTC
somedudeinaship wrote:
Why would you try to explain that you play a game in which skills must sometimes be trained for months or even up to a year before you can do something? I know most would likely look at you like you were all nuts. Who would play such a game?



Quite a few of us as it happens.

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McChicken Combo HalfMayo
The Happy Meal
#52 - 2014-11-12 08:27:51 UTC
Whenever I try they react, "so it's WoW in space".

Roll

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Luwc
State War Academy
Caldari State
#53 - 2014-11-12 08:59:29 UTC
Imagine World of Tanks in space.
Less interactive and playing arty all the time.

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Xtreem
Knockaround Guys Inc.
#54 - 2014-11-12 10:44:15 UTC
A spread sheet with decent graphics
ggodhsup
relocation LLC.
#55 - 2014-11-12 12:31:35 UTC
really hard....you probably wouldnt like it.
stoicfaux
#56 - 2014-11-12 12:49:09 UTC
Two words: Venn Diagram

List the qualities of a friend in real life and draw a circle around the set. Now list the qualities of a friend in EVE and draw a circle around that set.

Do the circles overlap? If yes, then the question is moot because you're probably too busy staying alive, avoiding the authorities, and/or are too paranoid in real life to be playing EVE in the first place.




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somedudeinaship
Star Whorz
#57 - 2014-11-12 13:34:08 UTC
Rain6637 wrote:
we might be autists but at least we don't have ADD.

I do, however, happen to find great enjoyment riding bicycles.


Just wondering if this comment was directed at me? Or was it meant to be directed at the rest of the gaming population in general in the way it was worded? I ask because sometimes people make these kinds of comments towards someone intentionally while not addressing them specifically which usually results in confusion.
Jenn aSide
Worthless Carebears
The Initiative.
#58 - 2014-11-12 13:45:33 UTC
Josef Djugashvilis wrote:
somedudeinaship wrote:
Why would you try to explain that you play a game in which skills must sometimes be trained for months or even up to a year before you can do something? I know most would likely look at you like you were all nuts. Who would play such a game?



Quite a few of us as it happens.


Compared to the 3 billion human beings who have internet access, there aren't that many of us lol.

This is why I don't bother explain anything about EVE to people. The odds of finding someone who fits into the profile of the few thousands of us who play EVE (again compared to 3,000,000,000 people on Earth with internet access) are probably lower than finding someone who loves listening to recorded Tibetan Goat Herder chanting (which is oddly quite funky once you get used to all the grunting).

I live EVE, that's all anyone really needs to know.
Rain6637
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#59 - 2014-11-12 16:10:05 UTC
somedude, I was riffing on this comment
NIFTYGetAtMe wrote:
It's simple dude: Autism.

Help, I can't download EVE

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Toshiro Hasegawa
Blackwater USA Inc.
Pandemic Horde
#60 - 2014-11-12 16:20:07 UTC
I have been trying to explain it to people since 2002 .. and i think have mostly failed miserably. - glazed eyes and quick subject changes.

but over time i have drilled it down to its salient points.

Its an MMORPG set in space - you dont walk around - you fly ships.
Its a sanbox and not a "theme park" MMO (explain wth that means)
Its heavily PvP orientated but with still alot of PvE (explain PvP v. PvE)
Its single shard (explain what what means - compare it to other games)
It has conquerable space .. and 10s of thousands of players group together to fight over it.
It has a huge almost entirely player driven economy - which is complex enough to be studied by economists.
It has a high death penalty. - which makes PvP really exciting unlike all other MMO.
Its been going for over a decade.

History is the study of change.