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Mr M
Sebiestor Tribe
#41 - 2012-04-06 05:05:57 UTC
Saw it on some site that listed games in development in 2002/2003 and applied for beta testing.

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Tiberius Amzadee
The Night Stalker Syndicate
#42 - 2012-04-06 05:08:36 UTC  |  Edited by: Tiberius Amzadee
I remember it like it was yesterday,June of 2003,sitting in the game department shelf at a Walmart just outside of Norfolk,VA.
I got fed up with and trashed Star Trek:Bridge Commander that kept crashing my back then top of the line dell laptop.
In search for something different then Star Trek and Star Wars I found EVE,loaded it up,it ran more smoothly then any game I ever played on PC's,still does and found no equal ever since.Smile
Darth Gustav
Sith Interstellar Tech Harvesting
#43 - 2012-04-06 05:10:06 UTC
A friend I hadn't talked to in a few days called me up and sounded like he had gotten himself a new crack addiction.

After a few minutes I realized he was talking about Internet Spaceships and signed up for the trial.

Which I then couldn't access. Due to trial account throttlihg. Due to "macrominers" as they were then called.

My perception of CCP started on a very, very good note. Let me tell you.

He who trolls trolls best when he who is trolled trolls the troller. -Darth Gustav's Axiom
Adunh Slavy
#44 - 2012-04-06 05:12:24 UTC
Was looking for freelancer mods and came across the ad.

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.  - William Pitt
Skorpynekomimi
#45 - 2012-04-06 05:25:30 UTC
A couple of friends were in the beta. It looked good.
Then they were established, and I wanted in.
When more friends picked it up.

Finally, I had a job, and time to play it, and spare income. I picked up the trial, just to see if I could get on with it.
Then I ragequit; the tutorial gave me a ship I needed, but couldn't fly unless I paid up.
Half an hour later, I was subscribed and playing again. Haven't looked back since.

Economic PVP
Fearless M0F0
Incursion PWNAGE Asc
#46 - 2012-04-06 05:34:42 UTC
I first read about eve from a Slashdot article about some big scam sometime in 2007, I checked it out, no linux client, meh Roll (my home is Microsoft free since 2003, ironic since i'm a c# developer)

A few months later I read on Slashdot CCP released a linux client, I read the comments about being just the windows client wrapped in cedega. I though I had to pay for Cedega to play so I passed. Roll

Then, by the end of the year, another Slashdot article about yet another scam and reading through the comments I came across a great story from some Goon dude in the early days of the game. He described his adventures flying many jumps through nullsec to buy his first cruiser and things like that. The universe he described got me very interested. I lurked through the forums. I also learned I didn't have to pay for Cedega to try the game.

I downloaded and installed the "linux client" on January 1st, 2008. I took me just a couple days to decide the game was worth $15/month so I paid the subscription. After a week I was ordering a better video card and by the end of the month I was playing the premium client through Wine ... Bear
killorbekilled TBE
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#47 - 2012-04-06 05:45:27 UTC
used to play freelancer, eve seemed like the next logical choice

i guess one day ill be posting in another thread saying ' yeah i used to play eve and it led me here' lols

:)
leviticus ander
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#48 - 2012-04-06 05:48:13 UTC
Harden the F*** Up I was linked that while I was playing WoW. looked at it, took a look at the other video they had up and almost immediately started a trial. got in contact with the person who linked it to me and found that they play too, but very infrequently. ended up finding a corp made of members from another unrelated forum I had been on for quite some time, joined them, got yelled at about terrible fits and skills for about a year until I started picking it all up.
been around since because of the song linked above.
Pak Narhoo
Splinter Foundation
#49 - 2012-04-06 06:29:13 UTC
Saw an ad on a PC gaming site with a horizontal flying Myrmidon and was like, ohh wouldn't that be something if it came to the Mac. Went to this "EVE" site and started downloading backgrounds and kewl music, then moved on.
Unpossible something cool like that would come to my platform.

Then in 2007 it actually did and I jumped right in. Went from trial to full on my third day, had a second account in my second week.

When it comes to MMO's, EVE is my first, my last, my everything.
Tobiaz
Spacerats
#50 - 2012-04-06 08:11:08 UTC
I saw screenshots from 2002 early beta on the IGN website. It looked cool, so I signed up for the open beta and got to 'test' it for about a month. Pre-ordered the box, which came more then 3 weeks after The Second Genesis came out X

My first char was a total carebear, spending months chained to a station in algogille selling battleships for Techell Straight

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XIRUSPHERE
In Bacon We Trust
#51 - 2012-04-06 08:55:34 UTC
Heard about EVE while it was closed beta when I played Earth and Beyond many moons ago and signed up for it. Ended up getting into closed beta for a few months and had quite a bit of fun and broke a few things that are still broken to this day. Took a 3 year break shortly after launch for various reasons and have been back since 07.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one can enjoy the same good things for the first time several times.

One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.
Rico Minali
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#52 - 2012-04-06 08:56:26 UTC
My brother and I were looking for a sci fi mmo back in early 07, looked around alot saw many that 'might' be good enough then we saw the Eve Never Fades video and subscribed pretty much there and then. My brother quit about a year ago but Im still here.

Trust me, I almost know what I'm doing.
Ottersmacker
Genos Occidere
HYDRA RELOADED
#53 - 2012-04-06 08:58:42 UTC
I read Nightfreeze's scam story and watched AT2 recordings, that was enough to get me to try.

i just locked an open door.. strange, yet symbolically compelling.
baltec1
Bat Country
Pandemic Horde
#54 - 2012-04-06 09:05:49 UTC
SWG was murdered by SOE and EVE was the only other MMO offering a real market and risk.
Meryl SinGarda
Belligerent Underpaid Tactical Team
#55 - 2012-04-06 09:07:25 UTC
baltec1 wrote:
SWG was murdered by SOE and EVE was the only other MMO offering a real market and risk.


I wish I could have been around for SWG when it wasn't crap. I heard about it way too late. Also, can't stand SWTOR. But I'll stop. I have no reason to derail/troll this thread. ;D
Elsebeth Rhiannon
Gradient
Electus Matari
#56 - 2012-04-06 09:12:36 UTC  |  Edited by: Elsebeth Rhiannon
I used to play Anarchy Online, which had a lovely shades-of-grey scifi setting, which was totally ruined by wanting to make it into a better-selling fantasy game and adding an idiotic background story about ebil superbeings controlling one side and goodiegood superbeing controlling the other and oh gods don't make me think about it, it was too traumatic. The final straw was when in a dev chat the main storydev outright told astonished players that he thinks only stories with clearly defined good and evil are good stories. When the Shadowlands expansion did not really add anything fun to the gameplay either, I started to look for another scifi mmog and found EVE, which was then just out of beta and getting rave reviews comparing it to a "multiplayer Elite". I think I read about it first from some game site that listed MMOGs, but I cannot recall what the site was called. My RL friends who used to play AO soon followed me too.

Initially, I got most hooked by the fact that there was no real limits to who can play with whom. Friends could join months or years after me, and we could still meaningfully help each other on operations etc. No need to all have chars that we keep close to the same levels etc. It's a wonder that MMOGs in general have not moved away from that by now, tbh.

EDITed to add: hi to all ex-AOers. :) Seems a bunch of us made the switch in 2003/2004.
Meryl SinGarda
Belligerent Underpaid Tactical Team
#57 - 2012-04-06 09:23:45 UTC
Elsebeth Rhiannon wrote:
I used to play Anarchy Online, which had a lovely shades-of-grey scifi setting, which was totally ruined by wanting to make it into a better-selling fantasy game and adding an idiotic background story about ebil superbeings controlling one side and goodiegood superbeing controlling the other and oh gods don't make me think about it, it was too traumatic. The final straw was when in a dev chat the main storydev outright told astonished players that he thinks only stories with clearly defined good and evil are good stories. When the Shadowlands expansion did not really add anything fun to the gameplay either, I started to look for another scifi mmog and found EVE, which was then just out of beta and getting rave reviews comparing it to a "multiplayer Elite". I think I read about it first from some game site that listed MMOGs, but I cannot recall what the site was called. My RL friends who used to play AO soon followed me too.

Initially, I got most hooked by the fact that there was no real limits to who can play with whom. Friends could join months or years after me, and we could still meaningfully help each other on operations etc. No need to all have chars that we keep close to the same levels etc. It's a wonder that MMOGs in general have not moved away from that by now, tbh.

EDITed to add: hi to all ex-AOers. :) Seems a bunch of us made the switch in 2003/2004.


I'm interested as to which realm you were playing on. I probably wouldn't remember names, but I was on rk2 around that time and playing with an organisation called "Dark Templars of the Phoenix"
Elsebeth Rhiannon
Gradient
Electus Matari
#58 - 2012-04-06 09:34:23 UTC
Meryl SinGarda wrote:
I'm interested as to which realm you were playing on. I probably wouldn't remember names, but I was on rk2 around that time and playing with an organisation called "Dark Templars of the Phoenix"

I played for Shattered Dreams (neutral RP org) for a long time. I forget the server realm, tbh. I was trying to setup my own omnitek RP org around the time I quit.
ctx2007
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#59 - 2012-04-06 09:36:56 UTC
Like many i was a Freelancer player but it lacked updates, so found EVE in 2004 and did the trail but had a time comsuming job and could not afford the subscription so quit.

Rejoined in 2007 and not looked back since and that S*****y job has gone too Big smile

You only realise you life has been a waste of time, when you wake up dead.
Meryl SinGarda
Belligerent Underpaid Tactical Team
#60 - 2012-04-06 09:38:52 UTC
Elsebeth Rhiannon wrote:
Meryl SinGarda wrote:
I'm interested as to which realm you were playing on. I probably wouldn't remember names, but I was on rk2 around that time and playing with an organisation called "Dark Templars of the Phoenix"

I played for Shattered Dreams (neutral RP org) for a long time. I forget the server realm, tbh. I was trying to setup my own omnitek RP org around the time I quit.


Then you were on RK2. I recently took a look around Rubika and both Shattered Dreams and its leader is still around. Also, my character was Nuhmudiira.