EVE General Discussion

If EVE Online ever really dies, and CCP doesn't immediately follow up with the launch of EVE Online 2 I am probably going to just be done with gaming lol. This game spoils you...there is nothing remotely like it and nothing will ever live up to it. I NEED this game in my life...I NEED IT!

It's important to remember that CCP is a business. The people who work there expect a paycheck and those paychecks are provided by subscription fees and other stuff we buy from CCP with real money. Eve will continue as long as it is profitable. The biggest problem CCP seems to have is new player retention - if they solve that, I believe the game will still be going strong in 5 years. MMO may be a shrinking market but there are still a lot of people on the planet who enjoy this genre and CCP only needs to attract a small fraction of them to keep the game profitable.

I don't expect to see many large transformative features intended to grow the game - those investments should go to new products set in the Eve universe. Eve will get a smaller slice of the development pie aimed at sustaining the game.

Those who still dream of walking in stations need to realize that this is never was part of the Eve value proposition - it was a massive development effort that added nothing to core gameplay so CCP came to their senses and scraped it. Citadels do not have a Captains' quarters and Citadels will eventually replace Outposts and Stations. RIP WIS.

VR compatible - you take off the headset to find someone's emptied your apartment, including taking the fridge and its meager contents (an empty bottle of mustard and several soy sauce packets). But, you don't care, cause you just trained Mergers and Acquisitions to XII. "On to the arbitrage!" your neighbors hear you shout.

In five years I'll be pushing up daisies. SO, what CCP will be doing will be of little to no interest to me.
(No offense, CCP, I have better people to haunt...though maybe none so deserving....)

All of these assumptions so far also assume Western Civ will still exist, and if it does will still have electricity. Of course, we know Iceland will, since they can always harness those volcanoes. SO, that must mean everyone will have moved to Iceland to play EVE and increased it's population to such a degree IT starts sinking into the ocean along with Hawaii
and Florida.

Five years stuck on my eyes. Five years. What a surprise!
Five years, my brain hurts a lot. Five years? That's all we've got!

Spaceships will become spacesheeps.

They said so for 5 years ago, still saying it... and the decline of players slowly supports that... but EVE aint dead, just termnally ill.

I predict more ship skins!

I also predict VR going down like a lead balloon with most EVE players. Yes, a few will embrace it but the majority will go....'meh'

Well, when he quit (but didn't really) the last time, there was a reference to failing health:

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=5645036#post5645036

We are all dying, but not good for anyone to have health issues and I wish Serene all the best of health.

For all those not satisfied with the state of affairs ... BE the change you want to see perhaps?

Maybe the Drake will be good again in 5 years... one can only hope.

I sure hope CCP will continue to improve this awesome game. In the long run I hope they will launch more games that are all connected to each other, like the shooter they are working on. I mostly play Eve cause of how deep the game is, the danger involved with flying your ship, the endless customisation options and the player run economy. Connecting that to a shooter and other games sounds like much fun to me.