EVE General Discussion

Wait, is the PC dying again?

No, Eve is dying. It's one of the longest lasting deaths I've ever heard of.

IMHO EVE will almost run forever because there is no competition by any non casual MMO. And even if there would be one it would be hard pressed to achieve the depth of Eve and IMHO the community of non casual players is too small for 2 games.
What I would like to know is how big the community on the China servers is.

erm, what else do you think it is? a charity event? of course it is to get new and old subscribers - and it worked for me..

Bookmarked for future gloating. The only thing that will happen between now and 4 years from now is that the above poster will most likely rage quit again while swearing EVE will be dead soon.

Depends entirely on CCP, and by extension, shareholders.

Imo CCP is the finest remaining consolidated developer house since Westwood, Firaxis and Origin decades ago.

They are innovators always pushing the envelope, smart and intune with gaming development, prepared to take risks, and utterly dedicated to their consumers in a symbiosis that even Blizzard emulated.

Its a developer house for gamers, by gamers., with a unique tested and persevering product.

Yes, they failed in successfully integrating Valkyrie, DUST and Gunjack into the EVE continuity, at great expense.
Yes, the WoD project was a catastrophic failure.
I cant speak to why, or how, but the result was not good.
I hope, atleast, that CCP generated proprietary technology of value from these projects.
In anycase, they have staff capable of much more than before, as a result.

There is no competition in the market for what EVE is.
Frankly, Im surprised no other company has tried to emulate its model in another non-space setting.
Star Citizen offers a more vicarious experience of spaceship command, but lacks the depth of EVE.

I figure another 10 years of EVE, with a slow but inevtiable gradual zombification of development.
CCP tried bravely and rationally to progress EVE in WIS and associated side projects, into an integrated continuous entirety, so as to carry the EVE concept to the next level and future insurance, but failed.

Id encourage them, now, to develop an EVE integrated mobile app mini-game of some sort.

But I think overall, the price of the side projects failures when money was plentiful, is crippling insofar as this games evolution to compete in markets 10 yrs from now. Im not seeing CCP developing a next generation version of EVE. In 10 years, EVE will be the equivalent of a browser game today.

Im not optimistic about EVEs future. CCP wasted too much effort and money on side projects, without resulting in an integrated continuous whole, to remain competitive or lucrative 10+years from now. The VR and character modelling tech and know how CCP has has very little applicability to EVE in and of itself. Making EVE a VR experience means very little, people are used to seeing their ship only as a bracket on a 2d screen. Modelling only applies to character creation or avatar reconfiguration, neither of which are relevant to 99.99% of an EVE players ingame experience.

The second sentence of the OP indicated the level of BS involved; I have friends who still play wow.

As for the third line, I play on a very ordinary laptop (5200U); I'm sure one of the Win 10 tablets would do nicely as well.

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