EVE General Discussion

DUST made EVE *better*.

I guess actual real-world statistics mean nothing to you.
Even Forbes has commented on EVE's amazing success.

Take off your tinfoil hat and use Google, dude.
You're willing to spew all sorts of asspull BS on here, but you never show anything to back up the crap you say.

Not sure if epic troll or actually believes CCP is the Boogie Man...

Expo-freaking-nential growth in subscribed accounts, despite still having a monthly fee system.

World of Warcrack.... the MMO they said would never die, has lost almost 1/4 of its playerbase, this year.
Other MMO's are scaling back to F2P and microtransactions.... EVE is thriving better than ever.

CCP's finances are a matter of public record, too. If you were willing to put any effort into doing actual research, you could see that EVE is most assuredly NOT dying. There *will* be a 20th anniversary for this game. Accept it.

Yes EvEs finances.

So explain this as you have no quotes apparently, as I could not find Forbes saying EvE was an 'amazing sucess'.

Why are we getting the smallest expansion ever when CCP has increased its development budget by 50%, up to 12 million for a 6 month period?

As to WoW yes it has lost 5 times more subscribers than EvE has while still retaining 15 times as many players as EvE does.

EvEs numbers have not grown, even the PCU is this june only managed to get back to where it was pre-Incarna.

Yes EvE will probably live for 20 more years. That does not mean it will be given any quality of life.

Your inability to show any links or actual proof just makes you look like a joke.

Oh and counter points would assume you have said something valid....You haven't.

Yellow Barges/Exhumers
Smiley on the Ishtar
Jukebox
(future) Old command ship models.

I just look at this

http://eve-offline.net/?server=tranquility

This tells the whole story.

Now if you can look at that graph and say Eve is just doing fine and has not stagnated over the last few years there is something very wrong with you.

The 2 highest peaks on the all time weekly graph.

06-01-2011 Weekly Average 36430

06-06-2013 Weekly Average 36252

You also have to take into account that the weekly average for 2013 will also include Dust Accounts where as 2011 doesn't as Dust hadn't been released.

So we still haven't quite reached 2011 levels and that is including the few thousand dust bunnies.

So yeah.. Eve is growing

I want tiers back. And less ship role specialization especially among tier 1.

Everyone can fly any ship in the game. It's ok for there to be weaker ships and better ships, cheaper ships and expensive ships of the same size. Sometimes you bought something because it was cheaper or easier to manufacture locally, imagine that. Sometime you bought something so that you get underestimated and attacked. Sometimes you just wanted to mine in a battleship.
That's called a sandbox.

Yes there should be a general balance in the sense that no ship should be completely useless and no ship should completely dominate and all factions should have something unique of their own to attract you, but at the end of the day having essentially the same ship repeated in 3 sizes and 4 empire models because anything actually creative would be hard to balance in some basic rock-paper-scissors model is just boring.

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