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Would you recommend EVE to people? Why?
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Gregor Parud
Imperial Academy
#61 - 2015-12-20 16:03:26 UTC
Torothin wrote:
Paul Pohl wrote:
Torothin wrote:
12 years of game play. 12 years of entertainment. Is that not reason.enough?

Replay ability. ...


Yes but have you won?
Are you on the CSM?
Does Crossing Zabras and Podside talk about you?
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF FOZZIESOV?
blah... etc... bah... meh...

I suspect we would recommend the game for the same reasons....



Here in Fountain different small entities control different portions of space. Thus leading to more small.scale engagements. The game is great right now and reminds me of how it was in 2009.


You're trying to reason with someone who's posting history has revealed to lack logic and understanding.
Linna Excel
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#62 - 2015-12-20 17:26:12 UTC
Rain6637 wrote:
This Noisy article deserves a read, and I think this topic deserves a discussion: Would you recommend EVE to people, and why?


It depends?

Eve isn't for everyone. Even if it is for them, the timing might be wrong.

Let's be honest. Sand box games aren't for everyone. Open PvP at any time games aren't for everyone. Games with a monthly fee aren't for everyone. This last one is getting to be a bigger and bigger drawback as F2P games get bigger. TBH I think the method of gaining skills would turn a lot of people away, it's nice but you can't powerlevel your way to a marauder with t2 guns in a month (short of buying a character). I think that for people who like having a ton of alts, eve isn't a game for them because of the monthly fees and how skilling up works.

I can has blogging skills!
Merovee
Gorthaur Legion
Imperium Mordor
#63 - 2015-12-21 06:53:19 UTC
I like to show them Amarr. They go oh that's neat, how do you play the game. I say its not a game its a hobby. It doesn't end. I show them the map. Then I do a level four mission.

But I never ask someone to play EvE. I gave up years ago.

Empire, the next new world order.
Valkin Mordirc
#64 - 2015-12-21 08:10:59 UTC  |  Edited by: Valkin Mordirc
I actually don't.


I talk to my friends about the game, tell them some of the stories, some of my stories. How the game works and how complex and interesting it is.


At which point they start talking about the new COD or Battlefield.


Also the headache of trying to go through the game as I play it with a new guy tagging along trying to convince him that how he's fitting ships is wrong and he shouldn't fit lasers to a Moa was a headache when I tried it once. Or how he shouldn't train into everything at once, or how he shouldn't armor and shield tank, or how to set up the dreaded overview to his liking, or setting his UI up to make it more effective or how War's work, or lowsec and nullsec.

It a lot of **** to explain that the game takes no part in. Which is why I've always advocated a better tutorial system to be worked on. But CCP seems to be happy with letting the players teach the basic points of their game to newbies. Rather then the Game being well designed enough so you don't need your hand held though the first 4 or so months of playing by a group of players.

I had a group of players to teach me the game. Patient motherfuckers they were, and it also helped that I had originally tried to play the game before in 2011, but quit because I couldn't get a proper grasp on it with the random group I was playing with made of highsec miners.

The only reason I am still here now, is because they were they to help me out. If they weren't I wouldn't have stayed.
#DeleteTheWeak
Indahmawar Fazmarai
#65 - 2015-12-21 12:57:26 UTC  |  Edited by: Indahmawar Fazmarai
Valkin Mordirc wrote:
I actually don't.


I talk to my friends about the game, tell them some of the stories, some of my stories. How the game works and how complex and interesting it is.


At which point they start talking about the new COD or Battlefield.


Also the headache of trying to go through the game as I play it with a new guy tagging along trying to convince him that how he's fitting ships is wrong and he shouldn't fit lasers to a Moa was a headache when I tried it once. Or how he shouldn't train into everything at once, or how he shouldn't armor and shield tank, or how to set up the dreaded overview to his liking, or setting his UI up to make it more effective or how War's work, or lowsec and nullsec.

It a lot of **** to explain that the game takes no part in. Which is why I've always advocated a better tutorial system to be worked on. But CCP seems to be happy with letting the players teach the basic points of their game to newbies. Rather then the Game being well designed enough so you don't need your hand held though the first 4 or so months of playing by a group of players.

I had a group of players to teach me the game. Patient motherfuckers they were, and it also helped that I had originally tried to play the game before in 2011, but quit because I couldn't get a proper grasp on it with the random group I was playing with made of highsec miners.

The only reason I am still here now, is because they were they to help me out. If they weren't I wouldn't have stayed.


EVE player retention is like asking a group of blindfolded people to run through a forest without hitting the trees. Those who exit the forest are called "long term players" and CCP wonders why there's so few survivors to the joyful experience of becoming a long term EVE player...
Jade Blackwind
#66 - 2015-12-21 13:41:32 UTC
Indahmawar Fazmarai wrote:
EVE player retention is like asking a group of blindfolded people to run through a forest without hitting the trees. Those who exit the forest are called "long term players" and CCP wonders why there's so few survivors to the joyful experience of becoming a long term EVE player...


Reminds me of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQEBzauVIlA
Mithandra
B.O.P Supplication For Glorious
Dracarys.
#67 - 2015-12-21 19:13:12 UTC
I would recommend EVE. It's cheaper than therapy

Eve is the dark haired, totally hot emo gothchild of the gaming community
Omnarius Ziltoid
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#68 - 2015-12-22 03:35:11 UTC
No. Because either they will love it and get mad at me for making them use up all their free time, or they will hate it and get mad at me for wasting their time.