EVE General Discussion

Was drawn to it for a long while - adverts/gaming press, but avoided it because of the overwhelming commitment I thought it needed. I signed up in 2008 when I decided I liked the subscription & lack of micro-transaction model, it seemed like a mature option without the teenage nonsense that some other games/mmo's seem to crave.

I accept that EVE needs to change and I'll probably leave if game content costs cash rather than isk, even if it's only vanity - frankly vanity is game content! Fortunately the PLEX/microplex for account services and in-game generated isk route seems sensible and perfectly acceptable. I could happily spend triple the subscription cost every month on extra content if I thought I was adding to the sandbox!

I've tried most of what I think EVE has to offer and I know I've barely scratched the surface. The best part is that it's continually growing and developing so the potential is immense.

Fantastic game

Changing my answer to this.

Met someone in Saga of Ryzom, who was taking a break from EVE (Amarrian pilot) at the beginning of 2005. I was still enjoying the Saga of Ryzom at the time so did not try EVE until about Sept 2005.

Friends talking about the sudden takedown on BoB from Delve. I started playing then. A week later I was tooling around the PR- hellcamp in my terribly fit Vexor.

me and a few flat mates of the same course decided when we were in university to play together an MMO. So in summer we began seaching for an MMO from site that advertise MMOs with description and what attracted us initialy was the graphics.

We did not knew much what were doing back then. I was fiting caldari ships wih armor reppers XD. We were doing too much mininig and misioning at the start. We could hear "stories" of capitals but never saw much. We didnt even see a carrier back then. We had zero knowledge of mechanics and we didnt join any corporations.

One thing i felt was like there was not enough information back then about the game. There was very little videos of eve even in youtube back then. This was in 2004 or early 2005(i think).

After three months we gave up. A year after i decided to give it a try and here I am still. This time when i came back to the game i joined a corp and things changed completelly and i was hooked with the adventure and friends i made. That was many years ago .

Long live EVE

I had casually played UO and was looking for another MMO, so I looked around and found a post on some forum made by some ex UO player who said how great Eve was.

Gave it a try (early 2004 I think) and quit during the trial - however it left a lasting impressions and so I came back a couple of months later and stuck around since then.

There simply never was an alternative - games like WoW never caught my interest and I never bothered enough with them to even ever install a Trial.

Installed beta. Hated it. Then did some proper research into it and loved it since.