EVE General Discussion

great trailer!!.. no inacurate promises

I thought I closed that thread.

Still feasible and not to take from the trailer, it's a good trailer in terms of promoting the comradery aspects of EVE but like the new mechanics, like much of EVE it's the down time between these moments is what kills EVE for many. It's needed down time. Ship and fit replacement is a slow process but for the pure PvP, gang crowd it's still a kill joy.

The clone grade system being abolished needs a Sci-fi trailer or lead up in one of the Capsuleer threat developments. I really think it will have a huge impact on stagnation in the game. I expect that change alone to spawn a lot more LOLFleets in EVE. T1 to T2 cruiser cost is 30:1 but 20 mill clones x 30 losses removed it as an option, for me at least.

Either the best or at least in the top 10 trailers they've ever done. All about the gamers in this one and the voice over... Yup, that's how it tends to be.

Very nicely done.

No no no!

If it's not dying then it is already dead. That would be a shame!

OMFG I was watching it AGAIN!

So ****** brilliant! :O

Umm, what? You're talking about a huge multi-million dollar investment in content growth within a game that has millions of players playing one IP (World of Warcraft) and even more within message reach that are currently deactivated (players that left World of Warcraft) within the same IP. That's not accounting for the millions of others playing other IP's under the same publisher such as StarCraft, Warcraft, Diablo and now, Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft.

And that's just talking about their current and past customer base who would listen. Then you have the huge marketing budget to actually promote the new expansion to everyone else, both new and old who have not received the message, "Hey, WoW has a hot new expansion! Check it out!"

EVE will continue to thrive off their niche market for another 10 years because at the end of the day, you don't need millions of players to still be successful. They could likely run this game on much, much lower for a very long time.

ive also noticed an increase of the players online during the weekend 43k usually now, was like 33-37k so they are doing something right?

Well, it depends on the business operations behind closed doors, but I would suspect CCP could run EVE online with a very small development team and very small operations team with a very small player base for a very long time on very little resources.

That's just my 2 cents though. I've been in EVE for 10 years and have worked in the industry (now retired) for some years too. EVE is an amazing game that has really captured their audience. To think they need WoW numbers to survive is really saying EVE should have died a long time ago. Then to question their strategy having faced amazing odds is to say you don't know EVE at all. Those of us who have been here when CCP took the journey to where it is today already know the are in this for the very long haul.

I agree with Her Somewhat theres more to Growing a Player Base however I wont go into details. The facts are WOW has over 30k viewers on twitch Tv and7.8 subscribers playerbase so it does win the Popularity contest. I will give credit due CCP is trying to save this game maybe If they Do a Game of thrones tv series called Eve Who knows maybe it will get is 1 million more subscribers a day (CCP if you ever do cast a TV series PM at http://www.twitch.tv/s0lo/profile) The queston How is Eve Online going to aquire at least 1 million subscribers and of course not die?