Out of Pod Experience

Predictable Thread is Predictable?

EVE Players (all ~30,000 of us actual individual human beings) decry SWTOR as "sucky".

SWTOR sells 1.5 million units in it's pre-order and first week, on the way to what looks like a predicted 3 million subs first month.

EVE Players bemoan that "Theme Park Ride MMO's have no staying power.

WoW rolls on in Year #7 with 10 million+ subs, despite the fact it's content has been tripe for ages.

EVE Players decry it as too easy, too basic, too rails, etc.

EVE Players forget that EVE-level difficulty is VERY niche, and that the vast majority of teh gaming public wants easy, basic, rail-based story-driven fun.

Face it boys and girls, Joe Q Gamer knows what EVE is, and has said "lol, no, too hard".

Joe Q. Gamer knows what a Sandbox is, and replies "meh, no point, I don't play video games to write my own story or create my own fun".

We truly dedicated and long-term Sandbox'lovin EVE players are like the hardcore Fligh Sim folks, except there are alot less of us around.

The reason the Sandbox is so rare is because the players have roundly said "no thanks" to our preferred style of gaming.