Comments on: Things MMOs Can Learn from EVE

By: dissident

dissident — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 15:02:58 +0000

Nay eve online sucks.

The skill training takes ages and is just another way to make you subscribe longer.

The missions are monotonous as hell.

The game is ZERO FUN unless you can find a group of like-minded real life friends who play the game.

Solo players can’t do shit. Everything that is fun about the game must be done in a group eg. ganking, high level missions, incursions, sovereignty fighting etc.

By: Uklu

Uklu — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 18:48:04 +0000

Yes! I agree with everything! I would never go back to another MMO, I can’t cheat on EVE. CCP is really devoted to us, not just in a cynical profit driven way. They realise that to make a really successful game, you need to be as devoted and passionate as the people who play it. Sure, it may not be as big as Wow or Runescape but it is easily the largest and most advanced game world out there. Moreover, CCP is able to maintain such a game world well. There are bugs from time to time, but to be honest that is to be expected. Even when the bug is quite large, they’re on it like a rash and quickly sort the problem out without spending hours wasting players’ time. Go CCP!, can’t wait for Dust 514…..

By: ethereal

ethereal — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 14:46:16 +0000

Eve gives players more of.what they need and less of what they want. Evert game gives what they want instant action eve makes them earn every step and that makes it feel more gratifying ……bring that to dust and youll change the face of gameing forever

By: Foo

Foo — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 06:37:55 +0000

Preview fail; try again:

http://foo-eve.blogspot.com.au/search/label/server%20maintenance

By: Foo

Foo — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 06:36:25 +0000

I’m Australian, new to Eve; It still grates that 9pm local time – off you go. I have RL work collegues that have played for years, stay on Eve until shutdown; then they logoff and do other things.

Staggered shutdown is an option. Upgrade nights excepted, with sharded servers there is no reason not to stagger the server restarts even if only region by region.

http://foo-eve.blogspot.com.au/search/label/server maintenance

By: Mara Rinn

Mara Rinn — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 00:23:09 +0000

As for Australians: remember that CCP is working on eliminating downtime altogether.

I wonder what will happen to peak concurrent user count when that happens?

By: Agondray

Agondray — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 19:57:26 +0000

Ive played other games that have chances of losing everything like TIBIA, 2d, no sound and very premitive, on death gear, skills and XP have a 10% loss. Games like WoW you buy the main game and every expansion out there, take a month to get the best gear just for a patch to make it worthless, in EVE even rookie ships have taken out full on battle cruisers and every one has something they can do from day 1 against even the oldest players to bring them down and all of the expansions, even the main game have all been free minus the $15ish a month unlike other buying their games and paying to play online. Lastly when i started i was dropped in the middile of nowhere with a very small tutorial which has no expanded with the mass introduction of americans.
Go EVE

By: bikit

bikit — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 18:47:01 +0000

Eve has consequences. Your ship gets blown up its gone! You have to “earn” the money for a new one

By: Kirith Kodachi

Kirith Kodachi — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 18:35:43 +0000

Hey, aren’t you that guy who used to do those things about eve….? j/k

Totally agree with your post. :)

By: Aelis

Aelis — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 18:09:47 +0000

I’d like to add that EVE is engaging from the moment you first log on. Even doing tutorials, you don’t feel like you’re being guided through a nooblet’s maze. You’re dropped in the middle of space and left to find your way however you want to play. That’s an amazing feeling.