Out of Pod Experience

I have played SWTOR, and it is .... not a threat to EVE.

It is, as others have pointed out, a WoW clone that focuses almost 100% on killing Banthas and nameless and irrelevant PVE characters as your cross ugly swamps.

Worst of all, it really is an ugly game. At max settings on my 30" monitor it just looks like crap. The textures look like something from 2004..

I might even level a character just for sh*ts and gigs, but it's not threat to EVE.

My que was empty this morning.

NO offense Guard, but why would you do missions? They're about as dull as it gets.

I am currently playing SWTOR and not logged into EVE, but I have not replaced EVE with SWTOR. That would be like trying to replace MW3 with Aion. They are too different for one to be a threat to another. SWTOR has no space combat worth mentioning (just some rail system that no one in the game likes). The enjoyable part of that game is the actual MMO aspects combined with Mass Effect style story system. But, at the end of the day, I don't get to fly space ships and therefor it stands no chance of taking me from EVE.

SWTOR is now my supplemental MMO to EVE. I play some EVE, I play some SWTOR, and I am happy.

I am currently playing TOR. And since it's a story and plot driven game, once I complete the story, I'll shut her back down and resume playing EVE.

PS - I'm keeping up my EVE sub while playing TOR in support of the refocus on space pew pew. /waves at Devs. Yer welcome.

The only threat to EVE is EVE. SW-TOR might be one of those games that speed up a decline here but the truth be told, alot of people who picked up EVE in the last few years don't belong here. CCP welcome them but the community at large do not and see them as cattle.

If CCP have built a game around 60K login and 450K active then EVE will hurt for a while but I believe EVE out sized its Niche.

Star Trek Online could have killed Eve. If they stole the space ship combat from Eve and used WOW like gound missions that we could opt out of ever seeing.

In other words, one cannot simply walk out of EVE.

Lately with the holidays and work I haven't had more than an hour at a time to play much of anything. I've been playing TOR because it's easy to jump in for 30 minutes do something and leave. Eve really doesn't support casual gameplay much unless you consider PI and updating your market orders fun. ( you might think running missions are quick, but that pve content is soooo old, and I've done it all.)

I love Eve, but it's something I really get the most out of when I can play it for more than a few hours in a sitting.