EVE General Discussion

This this happen yet? Saw anything of note?

Will wait for comments on it, so far after reading what's been published about the Future of EVE keynote all i got is that CCP Seagull said something about building stargates to go somewhere. Which sounds like "more WH space without WH space" or "Apochrypha 2: back to the good old days".

Originality isn't their strong point, is it...?

Seagull was asked about plans for "avatar based gameplay" during the interviews leading up to Fanfest and said that they where looking for ways to make it useful but that they currently didn't have any plans for it.

So it remains status quo, no resources will be used until they find some use for it that is worth investing in.

Well, i also get the "why". There is no way they can add avatar gameplay without a serious increase in their resources -and that's unlikely to happen.

Let's say that you've been aware of EVE for the last 10 years, but never interested you enough to give a try. Or let's say that you gave a try and didn't like what you saw.

If you're one of the above, what does EVE offer to you now/plans to offer to you in the future?

More of the same.

Rather than expand the potential playerbase, CCP is focusing on the returning player/already subscribed player. And hey, it works! Here i am, 10 euros a month was enough to convince me to come back after Guild Wars 2 and Planetside 2! Welcome back, Indahmawar Fazmarai!

That's it, unitl I grow tired of doing the same sh*t and go play something else. And of course, i am paying 33% less developer time than when I still had hope in this game and company. Well, that was wrong: i'm paying 67% less dev time, actually, as i used to have two accounts.

Dunno. I'm in a depressive mood these days due to RL issues, but also i can't see how my current feelings about EVE are but a difference in degree and not in quality over the usual. I enjoy the little i have now and don't count on CCP outperforming themselves and bringing anything worth it to EVE.

Pretty much this. More of the same. Sure it doesn't cause cataclysmic events like Incarna/NEX store/Greed letter perfect storm did, but it also doesn't make the game grow in any serious way. And if you're not growing, you're stagnating. How many more years of these minor changes until people just get bored? I was watching the keynote video last night, and how long will the novelty of the "new and amazing" stuff in Odyssey last? A week? Two? I don't know about you, but the new jumpgate effect was nice the first time, OK the second time, and "Yeah, yeah, move on already" the third time. Three jumps in a row, and I was over it. And I know I'm not the only one. Development time well spent?

Avatar-based gameplay, and I mean MEANINGFUL avatar-based gameplay, had the potential to snap EVE out of its rut and push it up into a whole new bracket. All those people that would play it but just can't get past the whole "your ship that changes all the time and WILL blow up is your avatar" thing, they'll be playing something else, when they could be playing EVE. And it's not like CCP has to invent something new, there's no need to re-invent the wheel. There's tons of things that they could do for avatar gameplay. Heck, just rip off other MMOs. Do what Pirates of the Burning Sea did with avatar combat, even that is better than nothing and it'll add a whole new dimension to game's combat.

But they seem content to just hold on to players they have and keep releasing these "more of the same" patches and...what...? Wait for something better to come along and finally kill it? EVE did enjoy a decade of virtually zero competition. I mean, how many space MMOs came out since 2003? None? Games like Black Prophecy aren't MMOs by even the furthest stretch of the imagination. But now you have MMO-like titles with a persistent world on the way, like Star Citizen. Only a matter of time before a full-fledged MMO comes out. Worse still, imagine if Blizzard's next project is based on Starcraft (sci-fi) universe? Especially if it has space and aerial combat? What if it's a sandbox? What will happen to EVE then? Just seems to me they're going through the motions, even avatar gameplay is the future of this game.

There's no Space Texas in New Eden, unless you count the Talocan settlements in Okkelen constellation.

Talocan Hold'em?

"The door will remain closed."
"Maybe we will discuss it next year."
--CCP CEO on Fanfest 2013.

Have to say I'm pretty disappointed. Not at all surprised of course but still disappointed. This is THE feature I've waited for years.

The door will eventually open :)

CCP is doing the right thing at this time. FOCUS!!!

hahaha another year down

suck on that

keeping paying for and posting about a game that doesn't actually exist

so dumb

Well... I am waiting for TESO too, so we'll see what comes first. If they do come. But if I am lucky and get both of themin year or few, so much the better.