Status of EVE
Gets:
Pezzle, it's not 2007 anymore. Let it go, man.
Eve is doing fine, still making money and holding up Iceland's economy while still being a subscription based MMO, partly thanks to other spaceship MMOs not understanding what makes Eve click and failing miserably, partly thanks to CCP being good at bullshitting everyone into believing the best thing since seat warmers is right around the corner. Then when the expansion hits you get a seat warmer, but it only works for one seat and only one buttcheek. I think for the most part Eve is great thanks to the people who make it an interesting game to be a part of, because there are real communities, subcultures and ideologies in Eve that have near unrestricted means of expressing all that in many "political" ways. Also, and primarily maybe, there really is nothing like it. A lot of Eve happens outside the gameclient, on forums, chatrooms, VoiP servers and third party software.
If you ask whether Eve is a complex game, then it really depends on how well you can grasp all the aspects that are holistically interconnected with each other. If you just know about missions and all you seem to do is missions for the sole purpose of getting better gear so you could do even more missions, then that will be the game for you. But if you decide to try and influence the market for your own personal gain or the people playing it can come out with really unique outcomes, for better or for worse, with no real limits. You can be the guy who destroys some other random guys 10 years of effort pretending to be a spaceship captain. Happens more often than you might imagine. All sorts of people have made use of their professional skills to gain an advantage in the game, e.g. programmers, artists, accountants, webdesigners, private investigators, crooks, etc.
I've had people in real life telling me how they don't get Eve, or how they don't get why their co-workers play it. At the same time though it's easier for me to talk to people who do play Eve, because a lot of likeminded individuals coalesce in the game due to all the different social dynamics involved.
Is Eve a good spaceship simulator? No. Fuck no. So many things are completely different from what you'd expect it just takes straightforward learning to understand how things work and why. If Neil deGrasse Tyson saw Eve he would flip his desk and bite down angrily on his solarsystem themed tie. We call Eve "submarines in space", but even that isn't doing Isaac Newton any justice, since it's more akin to "submarines in oil", oh and the submarines are dickheads.
apocrypha:
Quote from: Gets on September 21, 2013, 05:33:06 AM
We call Eve "submarines in space", but even that isn't doing Isaac Newton any justice, since it's more akin to "submarines in oil", oh and the submarines are dickheads.
Sig'd. :awesome_for_real:
Junkogen:
For the most part, in the beginning, the game is just a grind like any other MMORPG: run missions, wait for your skill points to go up, then get involved in PvP. The big difference, it seems, is that if you get blown up, you can't just go to your corpse and resurrect.
I don't know. We'll see how it goes. So far I find myself too busy with real world stuff to invest a lot of time into it.
Junkogen:
So do you guys play Eve much anymore, or you guys all pretty burned out on the whole thing?
Phildo:
Hi Enigma.
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