EVE General Discussion

Ironically, that story is just unbelievable. When I read it, I have an urge to say BS.

Eve is sociopath paradise...not closing anytime soon.

Port the game to Android and iOS ... so that the kids get hooked ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umDr0mPuyQc

If CCP sells out to EA, I can see EA making stupid decisions that drive the userbase away, and can see the game disappearing in just a few short years.

yup, the moment ccp or ccp's owner announces eve's closure i'll be kickstarting to raise money to buy the ip and or the server code and rebuild it. i know others will prolly beat me to it first though

How long I think EVE will run? Barring disasters, my hunch it's three or four years before going into maintenance mode.

Mind you, EVE will never die, same as Ultima Online or Tibia still are alive. They just no longer are being developed and no longer matter but to a bunch of fans.

WoW is still chugging along and unlikely to quit any time soon. Blizzard had a hiccup in the previous expansion when they themselves seemed to think WoW was dying (or at least not sexy to work on anymore) but 10,000,000 people showed up in anticipation of that expansion and it has taken them until recently to recover from their own failure to invest enough in the game to keep all those people happy. They are getting better at it. Also the WoW movie made them feel proud of their world and that probably helped retain developers a bit.

The PC is "dying" in that we're entering a "post-desktop/laptop world". Apple for example has already internalized this to the point that they are investing almost nothing in the Mac platform and believe that "devices" like phones and iPads are the only future that's exciting. Many people now use phones as their primary interaction with the world, and a lot of these people have no need of a traditional "computer".

But the gaming sector of PC sales is still strong and possibly growing. Windows PCs are the most cutting edge gaming platform available, and many developers continue to target the platform as primary or even exclusive. PC gaming is not currently at risk.

I think EvE is in at least as good a position as WoW is these days. EvE has seen steady growth over most or all of its lifetime, and the Alpha Clone f2p stuff I think is brilliant. It lets people slowly dip their toes in the water (of space) with no hurry to decide whether or not the game is for them or not. Having been gone for years and poking around as an Alpha for the last week I just gave them three months of sub, so it's already working on me.

CCP seems to really lover their creation, and they've always been successful without needing millions of players. EvE is also slowly improving and becoming more approachable (or at least orbitable) for new players and the universe is more compelling than it ever has been, so the fact that it has relatively few players also means that there's a huge untapped source of players out there who will eventually come and try it out.

2017 will likely be a good year for EvE.

J.

people are moving from traditional mmorpgs to mmos like ark survival evolved, rust, h1z1 etc...

They have real time combat, with pvp full loot, crafting systems where you can build anywhere and create any itens . Mmos like wow are boring when you can play games with action all over the place and have real interaction between players.

EvE will keep going as long as there are people willing to pay for it.

I think that's pretty much it.

PCs are getting popular because the thing that made consoles special isn't so special any more: you can't just turn it on, pop in the disk, and go. They software update, and they've picked up a lot of the bad DRM habits PC gamers have had to put up with. And they like to make you type in a stupid code to be able to play multiplayer-with a controller.

So why put up with console restrictions if they don't offer any real advantage over gaming PCs? I have an XBox 360 controller-but no Xbox, because I can use it for PC games whenever one comes along which plays better on a controller (Freedom Planet, or some console port). Or there's always K+M and/or stick+throttle with re-bindable controls for the power users.