EVE General Discussion

CCP: Where do you see EVE in 5 years time? Will it be desolate as many predict or do CCP make a magical move where EVE is revived??

THAT im very aware of :D

But i hope CCP would be ballsy enough to come With their own predictions based on the last 5 years development

Do what? You create a thread inviting CCP to comment on itself in its own forum? You hope they'll be "ballsy" enough to have someone gin-up a five-year projection, then post it here? You do know where you are, I trust. This is almost funny.

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Maybe not in 5 year , but eventualy I would say that I see Eve Online becoming a virtual reality universe. By virtual reality I dont mean like Occulus Rift but more like the one you see in Caprica Tv show. ( I know im dreaming here :P )

Eve universe is one of the only game deep enough to accommodate a full virtual reality universe.

But in a more realistic way I do hope they will rework the whole PI UI and add more mini game like project Discovery.

Would be nice to have an arcade like the one in FF7 where you can compete in mini game for ranking.

But the only thing Im sure is that eve online will still be running in 5 year from now. I dont care about what some people say about number dropping. I still see this game as the best game ever made.

If CCP wanted to update the roadmap, they'd do it in a devblog and vlog from CCP Seagull, not here.

The days of the "Big MMO" are numbered. There are a lot of players out there, free games, and variety. FPS games and "vehicle based" combat games ("World of...") allowing player customization of appearance, loadouts, and even skills already comprise a kind of "Eve Online without grinding and griefing".

Since the lore/chronicles and true live events of Eve have been abandoned (Dropbear era is not only erased, but consider the symbolic final real live event where an entire live event fleet was FED into the maw of a nullsec raep cage to "show us" what Eve was going to be all about. Was this to the snickering of certain devs and other managers who had it in for Dropbear's vision? ) the game seems flat and dead, given only to sperging grindfest catering to the kind of player who does everything with one eye constantly on the wallet or on their killboard, with the casualty being the casual player who just plain enjoyed the game for years.

CCP itself I think will move onto greater things though. They have good ideas. Some of their other works are incredible and they have developers who know their stuff. If they decided to drop Eve to go full bore on these new ideas I would support it.

But Eve will trudge on, fed by an ever smaller niche of suckers who pay for subs and PLEX who for the purpose of being abused by content. They'll feel special while the rest of the gaming world laughs at them for all riding in the same short bus.

For the most part, as sure as the days of just about everything are numbered, the game is outdated in a changing and expanding marketplace. That's life.






Ask them on Reddit. You'll get an answer there.

Honestly,

i think in 5 years eve will still be here. Valk will be fully released and not early access, nova shoudl be out, arena might be out and i'm sure ccp will drop more things.

What i'd like to see:

The 2014 vision, eve as a fully fledged connected universe where you pick yoru experence but all New Eden IP games interacting and working together, creating the largest gaming experence. (somehting liek what Star Citizen wants to do, but you know, ccp actually do it in a way that works)

What will prolly happen: EVE will be limping along with the other games ccp makes. I don;t see eve closing in 5 years but less players and stable (as in no dropping but not growing)

So good to see you have your sense of humor up and running today.

5 years from now only a few realities.

1) New developers will be on staff

2) the bad developers will finally be fired or gone

3) we'll still be debating how to fix cloaky camping and placing limits on cloaky camping and the gamestyle of a cloaky camper

4) you'll still be using Plex

5) VR-eve was shut down as ccp decides to research another type of game cause, well thats what they do best so far.. put time into something set up to fail from the beginning.. typically projects get so old they become DUST (no pun intended, ok im lying)

6) we'll actually have some decent actual signatures for forums

7) Most players still wont know how to find forums and just stick to reading the mitani and complaining about that sites format look

8) Mittens will finally have a life

9) Grath will finally admit that Gila's stink cause of a CCP nerf that occurs 3 yrs prior to the 5 years we're talking about

10)...you'll finally be able to do something in eve from your smart phone.. the mobile app will be live... and free!

bonus... what you think this game will be free to play by then??...no way in hell.

svipul rebalance is scheduled for that time span