EVE General Discussion

As YouTube and social media become to a main way to advertise games I feel EVE online is running into a problem with presentation.

Go to any EVE pvp video online (just have a look) and you will see the same statements that the game looks boring to place or that it looks unimpressive.

Ultimately I think the reason for this is best summed up here. basically people call EVE boring because at lot of what makes the game fun is happening in your head as you try to work out if you can kill this guy before you run out of tank. But for people outside the game all their seeing is a crosshair orbiting a blob with some partial effects and stat bars going down. It isn't helped that most PVP channels do their video's zoomed far out. While its gives them more tactical knowledge it also means people can't see the game models and so the game looks less visually impressive than it is.

The solution to this is probably going to be hard both for the community and for the developers. In terms of the community it means EVE related content producers might have to adopted a more cinematic style of camera work and editing but this is hard considering there is no way to save replays or post-edit like in other games. The other issue is EVE's UI while there has been improvements in usability it is still heavily spread sheet based. Now I'm sure a lot of people would play EVE if it was a rendered cockpit with aircraft controls (oh hi! star citizen) but the vast amount to details and complicity of EVE combat and game management makes that impossible.

So yeah in some ways EVE online's presentability is undermined by its UI. Can this be handled? yes but it needs content creators to work harder to make the game look more interesting