EVE General Discussion

Damn is it Noizy or Nosy

Sigh, the death of one of my loves of Eve, and the return of my nemesis from my Insurance company days.

I always recommend Eve to people. The only problem i run into is that people are more tempted towards the instant gratification games where you can buy endgame gear and a lvl gorillion character from the cash shop, or games where you can 720 backflip no-scope headshot a guy off the eiffel tower and then land in the pilot seat of a jet and bomb a freaking shark.

Now, if CCP were to bring Legion and Valkyrie to the table as well ( you know, having all games playable across a single platform and all that jazz), there would be a much better draw for newer players as you would be satisfying the FPS/Flight itch as well as the sandbox itch.. but alas we digress into repeated bludgeoning of a deceased equine with that, especially if we were to want them to be integrated into Eve in order to compete with SC when its released in 2024 [bludgeoning intensifies].

Eve is a sandbox of epic proportions where there is room for the good, the bad, the in-between, and god forbid.. the bloody neutrals.

I don't recommend EVE to my friends because I don't have any.

I would, if they'd be interested in doing something actually worthwhile.

TV makes people dumb.

Most of my friends are too soft.

I recommend EVE to those I think will like EVE.

Unfortunately, the headcount for my circle of friends has remained constant for a few years now, so that has resulted in no recommendations.

If you're asking in a round-about way for opinions about the game, I think that what they've done with subcapitals so far has been pretty good, but unfortunately the game feels incomplete (and lacking end-game play) until they release their rework of capital ships.

And as far as the microtransactions fluff, to me it feels like whoever's making the decisions has no clue. Compared to SWTOR's "Cartel Market", the NEX store is a joke, both in the number of items available and in the way we can accumulate them in-game.

Yes. It's challenging (from multiple perspectives) and very different from other MMORPGs.

Personally, the micro-transactions don't affect me. I have played SWTOR and other games with micro-transactions and have never bought anything beyond the subscription. However, I think its obvious that its profitable as its the sort of the "new way" of running MMORPGs. Free-to-play, pay-to-win, right?

After your performance yesterday, everyone already knows.

I'd recommend it, but EVE has its complexity and it's subscription fee working against itself. Whenever I try to convince someone to play this game (because it's so unique and awesome) I inevitably end up explaining that it does cost 15 dollars a month (or an ungodly amount of grinding) and that it's a game that requires long term (time) investments. And as much as people like the sound of EVE and want to try it, those two things are enough to put most people off. Not to mention the complexity of joining a corp and all the other weirdly complex interactions we have in EVE. I'm always sort of reluctant to explain the average corp's recruiting process to someone because I simply KNOW they won't understand and think that's insane (which, honestly, it kinda is).

So yeah... I'd recommend it to people in a heart beat but actually convincing them to try it, that's hard.

I no longer recommend EVE.

It annoys people.
They don't have the patience to skill up to do some of the stuff that I do.
They find it slow and boring.
I think EVE is on a downward slope, it is losing depth to be less complex, which bores the veterans and still won't attract the plebs.