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SWTOR killing EvE?

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NickyYo
modro
The Initiative.
#1 - 2011-12-21 14:58:58 UTC
I don't know about you lot but ALOT of our corp has gone inactive to play SWTOR.
Am i delusional or is this affecting eve population seriously?

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Abrazzar
Vardaugas Family
#2 - 2011-12-21 14:59:57 UTC
Azitek
Serenity Labs
#3 - 2011-12-21 15:01:37 UTC
You don't quit eve. They can try, but they'll be back.
Knug LiDi
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#4 - 2011-12-21 15:03:39 UTC
1) From early reports, I gather that reaching the level cap in SWOTR takes less than a month. We'll see what happens after that.

2) I strongly suspect that Skyrim is having/will have a greater effect on player ability

If only we could fall into a woman's arms

without falling into her hands
Buruk Utama
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#5 - 2011-12-21 15:05:59 UTC
SWOTR was very boring. Once the novelty of it wore off (a week tops) you see it is just KOTOR with multiplayer mode turned on permanently.
Jowen Datloran
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#6 - 2011-12-21 15:07:29 UTC
Ohnoes, a game with enough appeal to keep people interested for a month or two is pulling people away from EVE... for a month or two.

Mr. Science & Trade Institute, EVE Online Lorebook 

Aqriue
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#7 - 2011-12-21 15:10:41 UTC
I have seen 38 already, and its only been 1 day since release + 6 days earlier access slowly rolling people in if you preordered. Yeah, seen 2 hour que lines on "unofficial" Aussie servers (stupid down unders GTFO of my west coast US servers, go back to throwing more shrimp on the barbie what ever the heck that means!). Old Georgie lucas is just rolling in cash now, even got the old SWG shut down 2 weeks before his new pet game was released (pretty sure Mr. Lucas has the patents/rights/what ever to ANYTHING related to star wars in a vise like grip on the balls to squeeze them until they go blue Shocked to make cash off it ).
thoth rothschild
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#8 - 2011-12-21 15:11:33 UTC
Eve is a niche product which is not that much in competition with ego view mmo games.
there are other games which do have more problems with "swotr".

what i do observe is the age of mmo market in general is declining. this is more because of the repetitive concept, "the not that cooperative community " and the "1 out of million heros (not being special)".
Games like Skyrim, diablo are a much bigger danger to mmo games than most people would like to admit.
FloppieTheBanjoClown
Arcana Imperii Ltd.
#9 - 2011-12-21 15:13:34 UTC
I'm calling it StarWOW. People are going inactive to try it out. if they really like Eve, they'll find this to be too much like every other MMO and once they're done playing with lightsabers and space combat on rails, they'll be back in here. You might lose a couple, but I'm pretty sure the people StarWOW appeals to aren't going to play Eve a lot anyway.

Founding member of the Belligerent Undesirables movement.
Akrasjel Lanate
Immemorial Coalescence Administration
Immemorial Coalescence
#10 - 2011-12-21 15:19:20 UTC
umadbro

Quote:
SWTOR will kill WoW

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Citizen of Solitude
Destination SkillQueue
Doomheim
#11 - 2011-12-21 15:20:59 UTC  |  Edited by: Destination SkillQueue
It's not going to kill EVE, since it's a totally different type of a game. Any serious threat it poses is against other ground based theme park MMOs. There is also a honeymoon period with all new games, so it'll take a few months before you can say anything concrete about what long term affects SWTOR will have on the population numbers.

PS. I'm not logging on to EVE either, but that's because of skyrim and christmas(relatives visiting and visiting relatives).
Doc Fury
Furious Enterprises
#12 - 2011-12-21 15:23:18 UTC
Some healthy competition in the "Space MMOG" area is a positive thing, even if it is transitory.



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There's a million angry citizens looking down their tubes..at me.
Youwai
Perkone
Caldari State
#13 - 2011-12-21 15:26:17 UTC
No, SWTOR is so full of ****.

Yes I'm mad that I wasted 50€ Pirate
Lady Ayeipsia
BlueWaffe
#14 - 2011-12-21 15:28:50 UTC
I was able to play some of starwars during the beta. It really is a star wara wow. You quest the samelevel up similarly, and well, I thought if I wanted that style of game, I would go back to everquest and my druid.

It lacks the space combat where eve shines. It also lacks the indy aspect that I have grown to love in eve.

So no, it won't kill eve. It may pull people away for a bit, but death.... Not unless they create a very good space combat system back with a good indy setup.
Crumplecorn
Eve Cluster Explorations
#15 - 2011-12-21 15:29:00 UTC  |  Edited by: Crumplecorn
Early reports indicate that "Going To Sleep at Night" is stealing players from EVE Online.

Is this the beginning of a steady decline which will leave EVE a barren ghost down? Current trends indicate that EVE will have 10000 concurrent players by tomorrow, 0 the day after that, and -10000 the day after.

However, experts contend that "Going To Sleep at Night" is a transitory phase which will see the return of players within 6-8 hours. Furthermore, this new product has seen less favour in other parts of the world, such as China, Russia and Australia, where "Going to Sleep During the Day" is having a far greater effect on EVE's concurrent player count.

More on this story, tomorrow morning.

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Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#16 - 2011-12-21 15:35:07 UTC
Crumplecorn wrote:
Early reports indicate that "Going To Sleep at Night" is stealing players from EVE Online.

Sleeping is for the weak and sane, and we don't want either in EVE anyway!
Wubwubwubwubgrrrläää
Skippermonkey
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#17 - 2011-12-21 15:35:40 UTC
Crumplecorn wrote:
More on this story, tomorrow morning.

You going to go sleep as well?

oh man, this game is dying

COME AT ME BRO

I'LL JUST BE DOCKED IN THIS STATION
Quit Whining
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#18 - 2011-12-21 15:35:59 UTC
thoth rothschild wrote:
Eve is a niche product which is not that much in competition with ego view mmo games.
there are other games which do have more problems with "swotr".

what i do observe is the age of mmo market in general is declining. this is more because of the repetitive concept, "the not that cooperative community " and the "1 out of million heros (not being special)".
Games like Skyrim, diablo are a much bigger danger to mmo games than most people would like to admit.


Games like Skyrim, Diablo etc may indeed be a danger to MMOs....for a couple of months until you've completed the game.

How many people do you think will be playing Skyrim for as many years as they've maintained their EVE characters?
Sarmatiko
#19 - 2011-12-21 15:43:53 UTC
Wait Wars - The Queue Republic. Nuff said.
Shinshi Casoyako
Paradox Manifold
#20 - 2011-12-21 15:49:31 UTC
I have played SWTOR yesterday for a couple of hours and I have played EVE on and off for about 7 years now. I can savely say that I will be continuing to play EVE on and off for another 7 years, but I will not continu SWTOR for that long.

SWTOR is totally different and absolutely not comparable to EVE. SWTOR looks more like Tabula Rasa and WoW mixed together.
EVE misses stuff that SWTOR has and SWTOR misses stuff that EVE has.

Will it be the dead of EVE? No. Will it be a nice change of settings when you are burned out with EVE? Yes.
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