EVE General Discussion

Too bad CCP has already stated the number of accounts per unique email/ip/credit card or other identifier has increased.

So alts havent dropped, according to CCP.

Source?

Anyway, numbers are not falling.

And I dont see why I would have to make more accounts to protect anything. EVE had for like 3000 players when it started, and look how it is doing right now.

What twilight years? EVE looks fresher than any mmorpg from 2003. New features are added constantly, and they even make it opt-in. You have a really hardcore, alive and kicking game here.

Honestly, what it sounds like you are saying is that the title is giving the correct impression of the game but instead it should give a false impression so people join in thinking there's no problems. The issue with that is that then they realise there are problems and they feel even more narked off that they've wasted their time.

It's not that it's being ignored, It's simply being discounted as "the reason". You want to pretend that there's all of these other explanations (like the "it's summer" that seemed to run on way past summer) when it's pretty simple. Alts or not, people are losing interest in the game and new players aren't sticking around to replace the lost players.

Honestly, I think we're in a "shift to maintenance only" phase. I fully expect CCP to run with Valkyrie as a main product if it gathers enough momentum and focus more on VR moving forward. EVE-O has no place for VR and a very small and shrinking playerbase. I can't see them wanting to keep pushing forward with dev time that would give them better value elsewhere.

LOL, Its a very flat line, I dont see where it rises so much from 2014, and it even plunges a little there in beginning of 2015.

Also its accounts per player, so the pure additional accounts curve would be more prominent.

Anyway, EVE does hold numbers pretty nicely. These peaks were evenements, they were coming and going away with different expansions. Every7 expansion catering to another niche in niche. Without expansions the numbers have stabilised.

Look at the beginning of 2015. There is a little rebounce in the middle of 2015 but not surpassing the former number right before 2015. So where is this increase in alts? We are taking about the timespan from beginning of 2015, ok a little before it. It was when they changed rules about input automation. And where is the pure additional accounts number?

As I said. we are past the evenements, those people probably left EVE and buy spaceships for 100$ now in SC and doing as alpha testers for free there, for an overhyped game.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/3j7nso/at_least_we_know_how_many_alts_there_are/cun2q2o



Funny, "King Aires" posts a graph that he thinks supports his beliefs but that actually torpedoes those beliefs. "Pretty Stable" are the key words there, and lets ignore the noticeable dip at the end right there.

Reminds me of a time when someone did that same thing (post something that hurts their own argument) about Incursions...

When I made that statement I was writing about that timespan right before 2015.
They did left, as you can see, but you dont know the additional alt account numbers same as I. From this curve it looks like we did not recovered fully from right before the 2015 plunge.

I think its you that "cant freaking read". My fault lies only in that, that I didnt provide the actual timespan I had on my mind. You were thinking about something else.

You are making your own point now. We are talking about slightly different things.