EVE General Discussion

you can't bury and forget the idea of avatar gameplay because it was dead, buried and cremated a long time ago

As a side note, was there any news on Project Legion?

Round table about Dust (whatisthat?) was completely void of any Project Legion noise let alone news.
(Someone filmed that round table)

Meh. You should see what video does CCP have at their corporate site:

No kidding, retrieved March 23rd 2015

With a pair.

The only way I see WIS happening would be through the VR Labs first starting with the exploring your own ship and working out from there.

From what I gathered and from what came next I assumed walking in stations became dust 514 which is a slap in the face to Eve Online players. I read news posts of the revolt which had a lot more to do with charging for content aka squeezing players for more money and less to do with the actual content introduced though it was a part of it.

Regardless of what happened or why Eve Online is about to get a shake up. A lot of players (myself included) play this for the sci fi aspect of it. To me the game is so "distorted" that it lost it's appeal as a sci fi game. That's my personal issue and does not reflect the opinions of other players who play.

Now Star Citizen is on the scene and will be opening it's doors soon along with a few other titles coming out. Players who "put up with" eve online for lack of a better alternative are going to migrate and membership is going to drop. The game will be left with a lot of PvP players who really like the game mechanics and maybe a few traders who like the market while the rest vacate their accounts. A membership drop like that will be bad for Eve Online so CCP has to step up their game here and offer more.

For those of you who don't know what I am talking about type Star Citizen into google and check out what is up and coming. This is a kickstarter game that has serious potential. The game mechanics are radically different. There is a lack of a skill based system for example or they will minimize any skills required. So Star Citizen is NOT Eve Online. But you can pilot a capital ship and have players join your crew carrying out different functions aboard ship. Seriously there will be a heck of a draw to it.

There are other titles too I haven't checked out yet but I heard they were good and they will add to the competition to a market Eve Online dominated for over a decade. If they don't step up their game that competition will roll right over them.

Walking in stations and the hoopla that was supposed to go with it would be a great direction for keeping the player base. Adding that interactive immersive experience will go a long way in retaining accounts and drawing new players and maybe even old ones who left a while ago. But it may be too little too late. I don't know. Many who are fanatical about this game say no way. I think they underestimate the potential of these new titles. There is some very impressive stuff coming up that blows Eve Online away in it's current form.

I would like to go back in time and point out the way Eve Online arrived. I was playing a game called "Earth and Beyond" at the time which was a big deal when it ran. Eve Online showed up and players flocked from one title to the other. The game retained a dedicated base of players but then the Devs quit and decided to close it. Eve Online had a lot to do with that games demise. These new titles could repeat history here unless the Devs at CCP get their act together and start putting out the features they announced years ago and stop "Tweaking " the game to death.

When carriers came out and super carriers where whispers in player factories fighters were the thing to train for. A player could have up to 10 or 15 fighters I think the way the skills and ship bonuses were set up. Then the Devs nerfed it saying players can't use all those fighters they were too powerful so they came up with the absurd system of assigning fighters to other players to allow full deployment as along as the player who launched them wasn't in control.

Just now they removed that assignment capabiltity in the Scylla update. It is changed over to the drone options of assist. I haven't used it but it sounds like "No One" is controlling the drone or it just does a script. It may be a fantastic feature I don't know but either they screwed it up even more or they basically went back to the same thing they had in the beginning and wasted a lot of time and resources doing it. Super carriers became ever more distorted (some say useless) in the process over the years. They could have just left that alone and gotten to work on other more pressing issues and or developing new features and content.

And it is this cyclical idiocy that is killing Eve Online.

Granted this is my opinion. I know many will disagree and I am only calling it as I see it. I am an avid gamer and I know good stuff from bad. I stuck with Eve Online based on it's potential and for lack of a better game that could seriously compete with it as no one seemed to even try. Well now a few companies are trying and seriously making headway. I see a lot of not just good stuff but better stuff coming. Unless CCP gets on the ball I don't see a future for Eve Online. The times ahead it faces will not be like the past it enjoyed. Based on this latest update my impression is that the Devs don't seem worried or they don't care.

Let's hope I am completely wrong about all of this.

why walk in stations when you can:




Walk on sunshine?:)

The surprise is likely based on CCP's inability to understand its pandering to a negative sum segment of its player-base. Seem to have a love for the cancer that's slowing damaging their game and subsequently subscriptions numbers.

sounds like a scammy marketing stunt

WOOOOO O!