Out of Pod Experience

Science Fiction and Fantasy are both sub genres of fiction, no matter how hard you try to play with the semantics.

True they are both fiction. But the posting is still correct. Without 'playing' with semantics.


EDIT: unless you are trying to say SF and Fantasy are equal which would be fallacious and ridiculous.

Overweight ? Where ? They all have to be able to run like hell.

A different word maybe ?

Generally the setting alone isn't the largest factor on which games have more players. While some people prefer fighting aliens and shooting lasers to fighting goblins and swinging swords and vice versa, the structure of the game is what drives people in the most.

The reason why WoW has significantly more players is because it's gameplay is a lot more appealing to the general public. The game is an on-rails MMO which basically means that you are going to be directed to play the game in a few different ways. This means that players will rarely feel lost as to what they are suppose to do and will find the fun a lot quicker.

EVE is a 99% open sandbox. Botting, glitching, and RTM are basically the only things that aren't allowed in EVE. Everything else is alright with a very small number of exceptions. This means players don't really have a direction other than their own, which means it can take a while to find the part of the game you actually enjoy. Money making methods and skills are also extremely long term in EVE making it a more "hardcore" game for the lack of a better word.

But a 40k space game would be the best game. Nothing gets the blood running like jury rigging an asteroid for re-entry. Nothing better than the fact that the same jury rigging makes a good ramming boat. ORKS DA BEST.

The distinction between Sci-Fi and Fantasy has little to do with the plausability.

In the world of published literature, Fantasy started outpacing SF around 1985.

Remember in 1978 even Anne McCaffrey's "The White Dragon" was a #1 NY Times Bestseller like forever.

(My bag is SF though)

I refer you sir to the standard parlance of Orks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ork_(Warhammer_40,000)

The only time it's acceptable to say "It's not easy being green"

I can't believe you called WoW high fantasy. That really should be a crime.

Ever think that the game is not "popular" due to its niche or gameplay style, but due to the lack of marketing and the amount of people out there that KNOW of the game?


Lets face it: Who here tried EVE Online because they saw a TV advert on the sci-fi channel?

I see WoW commercials around at every release date for an expansion. I also see it in the gaming isles of computer stores. If i was a fantasy MMOer i'd know of WoW and try it out.

If i was a sci-fi gamer... I wouldn't know of EVE other than through word of mouth. The reason i began playing EVE is through a guy i platooned together with on World of Tanks ffs... He talked to me about it and introduced me to it. I was instantly HOOKED line and sinker. But until I started last year I have never even heard of the game.

Hell when he first started talking about EVE one day i thought it was another fantasy MMO i wanted to steer clear of

Until i heard the words ---> Space, ship, pew, and sandbox in one sentence.


Blizzard started WoW off a budget made from the success of two EXTREMELY successful gaming series. (I had heard of WoW the week it came out...)
CCP started nearly from scratch.

I have to say if CCP had the budget of Blizzard and the current mindset of where the game should go you wouldn't be seeing only a solid 30,000 to 50,000 online daily but much more and much better server management and much more streamlined everything


Edit: Whether CCP with a Blizzard budget made EVE on the popularity level of WoW did the world would never know

Edit 2: You may also see WiS fully developed by now also