EVE General Discussion

So you tried it for 20 minutes and didn't like it? Your opinion just oozes credibility...

On a game just launched. Are you kidding me?


PS: I've read enough of the user reviews. Some things are expectable and fixable (performance issues on Day 1? New to gaming, we are?). But others are like... Oh. My. God. I understand why the official forum has collapsed.

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The way CCP seagull is going it won't be long before they start saying this about eve online.

That shot of the rack of sentries in the drone bay was pretty cool.

should have shown 200 carriers assigning them to a t3

Pretty much everything I hate in a trailer was in it.

Except people landing on knee + one hand and looking up ot the camrea, that was covered in some DUST trailer though.

I hope not but it is starting to slowly head towards that direction.

The why is very easy. Yes it is the vision of Chris Roberts that people want to see become a reality, a game he himself wants to play.

Also communication, we know week to week what they are doing, if there is a delay we know why. I suppose you could say it is transparency and good customer service that has people rapt as well as the vision its self.

As somebody who has pledged I will tell my reasons.

I grew up with the games Chris Roberts worked on.

Games such as Times of Lore, Privateer, Wing Commander and Freelancer.

I love his vision and his passion. I love that he is designing a game he wants to play.

I spent months visiting the SC website before investing to see how they interacted with their community, seeing how they constantly updated their progression and was very impressed.

As Frying Doom has already said, you know on week to week basis where they are up to, what they are doing, what they have planned next etc.

I love the weekly Wingman's Hanger episodes where the devs let you know what is going on and also give feedback.

Its a vision I would love to be part so I decided to invest.

Yeah its a risk but life is full of risks :)

I could of either purchased a couple of plex or invested in SC, I decided to invest in SC as I am not convinced of the direction that CCP are taking and whether I will still have all 4 of my accounts active in a years time.

Most of the people that I met those 3+ years ago when I started playing Eve have long since left. A few pop on every now and again when a special offer on to see what has changed, they are usually left very unimpressed and do not renew.

Those I know that still play Eve are not what I would call super excited about the direction that Eve is taking and are only here because there is no alternative.

Quite a few of those have also invested in SC which I find very telling.

Heh, the lonely veteran syndrome is not unknown to me. I am the only person I knew 5 years ago, who still plays the game. Most people I know now are young characters, less than three years old. And I've seen so many people depart in their second to third year, that I call it a plague.

I know that some of the guys I know now, will not be here if I take a break and come back next year. It's kind of depressing, and also how nobody of my friends and acquitances are interested at all with the Hallelujah Plan. So far the only two players I know who have publicly stated their enthusiasm over it are CSM... and they did so because I dared them to.

I think of the next expansion, which will be as weak as every summer expansion was in the last 4 years, and at what point will be Star Citizen then, and I wonder why CCP can't compete, why CCP doesn't even tries. They've got 10 years of headstart, they've got a functioning lore and universe, they've got -still- a passionate playerbase... and yet the best they can promise is a 3 years plan to do the same they did in the past, yet again.

That, and deliver reheated porridge, wrapped in fake CGI and keep spending the real money and resources elsewhere than EVE.