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EVE play time compared to other MMORPGS , are we doing bad or good?
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Tavin Aikisen
Phoenix Naval Operations
Phoenix Naval Systems
#21 - 2012-11-07 07:15:10 UTC
There is one thing those stats don't show. Within a few years, all those listed games will be gone or replaced by sequels. EVE will still be, at the very least, in the same spot it's in now.

Those games, while still good, are extremely mainstream. And that is one of the reasons for their popularity.

"Remember this. Trust your eyes, you will kill each other. Trust your veins, you can all go home."

-Cold Wind
pussnheels
Viziam
#22 - 2012-11-07 07:43:30 UTC
Krakil Frostborn wrote:
Ok so i was browsing the web and stumbled upon this

10 most played PC games from July 2011 through June 2012 ( THATS HOURS!!! )

1.League of Legends 1,292,502,456 ( yes this is over a bil)
2.World of Warcraft 622,378,909
3.Minecraft 371,635,651
4.Heroes of Newerth 184,520,156
5.Diablo III 172,907,605
6.Battlefield 3 171,852,550
7.MapleStory 165,503,651
8.StarCraft II 163,980,293
9.World Of Tanks 145,702,931
10.Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 126,754,082

now i thought to myself , is eve that bad :D and started calculating...

so we'll say there are 24k players online 24hours a day , taking they are 40k at night and 18k at morning (eu times..) i'd say 24k is fair

so lets get to it
24k players play for 24h a day = 576 000 hours a day ( not bad )
so 576,000 h a day for a month(30d each ) = 17,280,000 ( ok again not bad)

and finally per year

17,280,00 x 12 = 207,360,00 ( THATS 207 MILLION hours per year)

Now go back to the top and see where do we fit? CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? I couldnt at first but yes it comes out like this.
We outplace huge titles such as Diablo , BF 3 etc. Its amazing how far this game has went.
But still we were not in this list ( haha) .

This is the original thread ,

http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/725795/league-of-legends-becomes-the-most-played-pc-game-in-the-world-move-over-world-of-warcraft/


oh my final words

Be proud that you are ABLE and WILLING and HAVE THE BRAINS to play a game like this , because 2 of my friends couldnt even get pass the tutorial ( wow maniacs ...).

BE PROUD , HAVE FUN & FLY SAFE
oh and also Glory to the state !!! hehe

too many kids with roo many time on their hand and skipping classes
bad news for future economy and my pension

I do not agree with what you are saying , but i will defend to the death your right to say it...... Voltaire
illirdor
Upper Class Goat
#23 - 2012-11-07 08:02:26 UTC
Shenra Twrin wrote:
Vertisce Soritenshi wrote:
Half of those aren't even MMORPG's...LoL is an RTS, BF3 and Call of Doody are FPS and Diablo III is something else entirely.

That being said...EVE has been out 10 times longer than all of those games. EVE probably isn't in that list because they could not realistically and accurately calculate the numbers. With THAT being said...EVE is probably not quite on that list.

just to clear it up diablo3 is a Hack ´n Slay


and LoL is a Moba...

Soooo this is my sig.... 
James Amril-Kesh
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#24 - 2012-11-07 08:36:36 UTC
Vertisce Soritenshi wrote:
Diablo III is something else entirely.

Self employment?

Enjoying the rain today? ;)
feihcsiM
THE B0YS
#25 - 2012-11-07 13:04:04 UTC
EVE isn't on the list? Well we're clearly just not online enough!

CALLING ALL ACCOUNTS, CALLING ALL ACCOUNTS, COMMENCE AFK CLOAKING!

It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.
Lykouleon
Noble Sentiments
Second Empire.
#26 - 2012-11-07 14:11:26 UTC
Realize those numbers are tied to usage of XFire while playing those games.

Lykouleon > CYNO ME CLOSER so I can hit them with my sword
Jenn aSide
Worthless Carebears
The Initiative.
#27 - 2012-11-07 14:18:15 UTC
Proletariat Tingtango wrote:
Small player base aside, after you become financially secure, eve is mostly a waiting game. I log in to set skills and clear a hub now and then so I can afford a few pvp ships that are easily replaced and almost never lost anyway, and that's on the handful of roams I may go on in a several month period.

I've lost more money due to expired insurance than destroyed ships, that should say everything you need to know about eve. It just doesn't require a time investment. League Of Legends, WoW, etc. are are set up by design to suck up as much of your time as possible.

And when Dota 2 goes gold, it's going to be up there too.

Eve is designed to keep taking your money while also giving you the ability to play other bad games as well, which is it's one redeeming feature


If you don't actually like EVe, why do you bother playing it?

I've been playing for 5 years, there are times at work that I actually feel like telling my boss I need to use some personal time and go home....I don't tell him that it's because I just figured out a new fit and want to try it out lol (no, i've never actually done this, but been tempted a time or two). I make more isk than I know what to do with and sometimes can't figure what skills i want to train for next now that 3 of my toons fly capital ships and another is sitting in a super carrier.

If you think EVE has "one redeeming feature" then the fact that you spend money (or plex or whatever) doesn't say really good things about your decision making process...
Jenn aSide
Worthless Carebears
The Initiative.
#28 - 2012-11-07 14:20:42 UTC
Clystan wrote:
I don't have room for too many games. I spend most of my game time on things like Borderlands or COD - (love that live action hit) But I play Eve when I want to use my brain.

Eve is the game of chess in a universe of checkers.


And that too is going into my sig....
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