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Ban Bindy wrote:

http://eve-offline.net/?server=tranquility

The decline in usage is pretty clear. I borrowed this link from another post. Lots of excuse-making on the forums, including people claiming that the dip last weekend was due to the wait for the expansion plus Diablo. Excuse this week is just Diablo. But the trend of less usage is clear in the stats.

This is the Sunday after expansion and usage is very low at the moment.

Why is it so hard to believe that the emphasis on ganking has driven casual players away from game? I'm not just talking about Hulkageddon. Since the Goon ice intervention, ganking has been very high and very steady in my old neighborhood in Minmatar space.

Sure, newbies are signing up for a game that has a strong PVP emphasis - but most newbies I've known are shocked to find out that suicide ganking is considered PVP.

Add that to the poor implementation of the new inventory system and you have this year's perfect storm for losing players.

Is Eve dying? Probably not. The game can hang on for a long time with its loyal core players. But it is clearly in decline at the moment. The game treats new players like crap and always has. And even core players might move on if the game gets so quiet that there's nobody to gank any more.

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Quartzlight Evenstar Icefluxor Perkone Caldari State 60	Posted - 2012.05.27 15:14:00 - [121] - Quote Trading Unknown wrote: TBH I'd rather work in food service on the side than deal with their terrible AH. ....and what is this mysterious AH ? My reaction to the window was more AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHRRRGHHH ! Ohh poor silly goon chillrens. Nobody in high sec cares about your plans to occupy jita like a bunch of dirty hippies. "....as if 10,058 Goon voices cried out and were suddenly silenced."
Knot'Kul Sun Rebirth. THE GOD SQUAD 44	Posted - 2012.05.27 15:29:00 - [122] - Quote Nyreanya wrote: I want a correlation between average players online, and average temperature. I'll bet that has more impact than most would think. Dear GOD!!! You mean EVE players are actually going outside? I didn't think that was POSSIBLE!?!?!
Gillia Winddancer Aliastra Gallente Federation 1	Posted - 2012.05.27 15:36:00 - [123] - Quote Why is no one blaming Goons for the weather yet? It must be a part of their master plan after all.
bongsmoke School of Applied Knowledge Caldari State 44	Posted - 2012.05.27 16:00:00 - [124] - Quote Amazing this thread isnt locked discussing ccp playerbase...
Ban Bindy Bindy Brothers Pottery Association 153	Posted - 2012.05.27 16:03:00 - [125] - Quote http://eve-offline.net/?server=tranquility The decline in usage is pretty clear. I borrowed this link from another post. Lots of excuse-making on the forums, including people claiming that the dip last weekend was due to the wait for the expansion plus Diablo. Excuse this week is just Diablo. But the trend of less usage is clear in the stats. This is the Sunday after expansion and usage is very low at the moment. Why is it so hard to believe that the emphasis on ganking has driven casual players away from game? I'm not just talking about Hulkageddon. Since the Goon ice intervention, ganking has been very high and very steady in my old neighborhood in Minmatar space. Sure, newbies are signing up for a game that has a strong PVP emphasis - but most newbies I've known are shocked to find out that suicide ganking is considered PVP. Add that to the poor implementation of the new inventory system and you have this year's perfect storm for losing players. Is Eve dying? Probably not. The game can hang on for a long time with its loyal core players. But it is clearly in decline at the moment. The game treats new players like crap and always has. And even core players might move on if the game gets so quiet that there's nobody to gank any more.
Quartzlight Evenstar Icefluxor Perkone Caldari State 65	Posted - 2012.05.27 16:03:00 - [126] - Quote bongsmoke wrote: Amazing this thread isnt locked discussing ccp playerbase... That already happened to the Original Thread about "FYI H'gennon May be Permanent" yesterday. Current one is the Resurrection. Well, not locked yesterday, but 'disappeared' somehow. Maybe deliberate, maybe glitch. Who can guess anymore ? Ohh poor silly goon chillrens. Nobody in high sec cares about your plans to occupy jita like a bunch of dirty hippies. "....as if 10,058 Goon voices cried out and were suddenly silenced."
Miilla Hulkageddon Orphanage 389	Posted - 2012.05.27 16:11:00 - [127] - Quote Disdaine wrote: Sebastian N Cain wrote: Miilla MUST be RIGHT, he/she/it HAS the CAPS-LOCK to PROVE it, after ALL. At least it's not yellow.... Only because they removed my YELLOW FONT. I'm quitting eve :( No I'm not really, but if you pay me enough ISK I may consider it.
Johnny Augustus State War Academy Caldari State 2	Posted - 2012.05.27 16:19:00 - [128] - Quote Ban Bindy wrote: http://eve-offline.net/?server=tranquility The decline in usage is pretty clear. I borrowed this link from another post. Lots of excuse-making on the forums, including people claiming that the dip last weekend was due to the wait for the expansion plus Diablo. Excuse this week is just Diablo. But the trend of less usage is clear in the stats. This is the Sunday after expansion and usage is very low at the moment. Why is it so hard to believe that the emphasis on ganking has driven casual players away from game? I'm not just talking about Hulkageddon. Since the Goon ice intervention, ganking has been very high and very steady in my old neighborhood in Minmatar space. Sure, newbies are signing up for a game that has a strong PVP emphasis - but most newbies I've known are shocked to find out that suicide ganking is considered PVP. Add that to the poor implementation of the new inventory system and you have this year's perfect storm for losing players. Is Eve dying? Probably not. The game can hang on for a long time with its loyal core players. But it is clearly in decline at the moment. The game treats new players like crap and always has. And even core players might move on if the game gets so quiet that there's nobody to gank any more. Thanks for the link. I find it interesting that over the past three years, concurrent users have roughly the same numbers for this time year. Looks like historically, there is a yearly dip in players starting around now to about September, when it starts to pick up again. Of course, a factor in this is the fact that it's the first sunday after an expansion, but right now we're at about 38.6k players right now, with that number rising by about two hundred players in the two minutes I took between checks, and it's still quite early. When the Crucible expansion hit, there was even less concurrent players than there are now, at around 30k. Same with Incarna, around 30k. Incursion as well, also with around 30k. By your own link, this is doing better than the previous expansions. And that's jsut with the numbers so far. Edit: This is of course assuming I'm reading the charts correctly. I might very well be mistaken, since I'm going to be in just a bit after having just worked a night shift.
Messoroz AQUILA INC Verge of Collapse 245	Posted - 2012.05.27 16:22:00 - [129] - Quote Ban Bindy wrote: http://eve-offline.net/?server=tranquility The decline in usage is pretty clear. I borrowed this link from another post. Lots of excuse-making on the forums, including people claiming that the dip last weekend was due to the wait for the expansion plus Diablo. Excuse this week is just Diablo. But the trend of less usage is clear in the stats. This is the Sunday after expansion and usage is very low at the moment. . It's a holiday right now in the U.S. this weekend until Monday, stop trying to feel special.
Miilla Hulkageddon Orphanage 389	Posted - 2012.05.27 16:23:00 - [130] - Quote Messoroz wrote: Ban Bindy wrote: http://eve-offline.net/?server=tranquility The decline in usage is pretty clear. I borrowed this link from another post. Lots of excuse-making on the forums, including people claiming that the dip last weekend was due to the wait for the expansion plus Diablo. Excuse this week is just Diablo. But the trend of less usage is clear in the stats. This is the Sunday after expansion and usage is very low at the moment. . It's a holiday weekend right now in the U.S. into/until Monday, stop trying to feel special. You guys have holidays? Wait no, that's called the WEEKEND :) We have them every week :)

bongsmoke School of Applied Knowledge Caldari State 44	Posted - 2012.05.27 16:33:00 - [131] - Quote Miilla wrote: Messoroz wrote: Ban Bindy wrote: http://eve-offline.net/?server=tranquility The decline in usage is pretty clear. I borrowed this link from another post. Lots of excuse-making on the forums, including people claiming that the dip last weekend was due to the wait for the expansion plus Diablo. Excuse this week is just Diablo. But the trend of less usage is clear in the stats. This is the Sunday after expansion and usage is very low at the moment. . It's a holiday weekend right now in the U.S. into/until Monday, stop trying to feel special. You guys have holidays? Wait no, that's called the WEEKEND :) We have them every week :) what rock you live under? or is it a blond thing?
Corina Jarr Spazzoid Enterprises Purpose Built 790	Posted - 2012.05.27 16:33:00 - [132] - Quote You guys do know that players on line doesn't matter much when it verries bya few hundred/thousand. A lot of people pay to skill up while doing other things. For example, I didn't log in once for 3 weeks when Arkham City was released. but I still was skilling up and paying CCP.
bongsmoke School of Applied Knowledge Caldari State 44	Posted - 2012.05.27 16:37:00 - [133] - Quote Corina Jarr wrote: You guys do know that players on line doesn't matter much when it verries bya few hundred/thousand. A lot of people pay to skill up while doing other things. For example, I didn't log in once for 3 weeks when Arkham City was released. but I still was skilling up and paying CCP. yep, friends and myself have a lot of accumulated time from buying plexes (market, NOT cash) and do the same, we take breaks playing other games when we get burnt out(no pun intended).
Mirima Thurander Native Freshfood Minmatar Republic 287	Posted - 2012.05.27 16:39:00 - [134] - Quote i blame the mega alliances in null for making eve be boring. I love the the smell of victory in the morning. It smells like... Blood, vomit and burning flesh.
pussnheels Vintage heavy industries 342	Posted - 2012.05.27 16:44:00 - [135] - Quote Alia Gon'die wrote: Quartzlight Evenstar Icefluxor wrote: That's the population averages for the past 3 Sundays 5/6, 5/13, and 5/20. http://eve-offline.net/?server=tranquility Any thoughts about tomorrows ? Instead of taking bets on how low the population is going to go, why not put forth some real ideas to help fix it? tl;dr let's try positive thinking instead of negative thinking a good idea would be a end to this senseless griefing of industrials and miners for the lulz + all because some small minority of idiots and other imbeciels thinks it is their game and theirs alone I do not agree with what you are saying , but i will defend to the death your right to say it...... Voltaire
Quartzlight Evenstar Icefluxor Perkone Caldari State 65	Posted - 2012.05.27 16:45:00 - [136] - Quote Mirima Thurander wrote: i blame the mega alliances in null for making eve be boring. They made it boring for themselves in Null, so look out High Sec. Ohh poor silly goon chillrens. Nobody in high sec cares about your plans to occupy jita like a bunch of dirty hippies. "....as if 10,058 Goon voices cried out and were suddenly silenced."
bongsmoke School of Applied Knowledge Caldari State 44	Posted - 2012.05.27 16:45:00 - [137] - Quote Mirima Thurander wrote: i blame the mega alliances in null for making eve be boring. Just curious, why? I run a small corp in null, find it fun actually. Not naming other corps, but I enjoy talking to some even though they are trying to find/kill us. Some are nice, and some are down right obscene.
Quartzlight Evenstar Icefluxor Perkone Caldari State 65	Posted - 2012.05.27 16:47:00 - [138] - Quote bongsmoke wrote: Mirima Thurander wrote: i blame the mega alliances in null for making eve be boring. Just curious, why? I run a small corp in null, find it fun actually. Not naming other corps, but I enjoy talking to some even though they are trying to find/kill us. Some are nice, and some are down right obscene. Great. One un-bored person in Null and of course it's declared a COMPLETE COUNTER-ARGUMENT doncha know ??? Ohh poor silly goon chillrens. Nobody in high sec cares about your plans to occupy jita like a bunch of dirty hippies. "....as if 10,058 Goon voices cried out and were suddenly silenced."
bongsmoke School of Applied Knowledge Caldari State 44	Posted - 2012.05.27 16:50:00 - [139] - Quote Quartzlight Evenstar Icefluxor wrote: bongsmoke wrote: Mirima Thurander wrote: i blame the mega alliances in null for making eve be boring. Just curious, why? I run a small corp in null, find it fun actually. Not naming other corps, but I enjoy talking to some even though they are trying to find/kill us. Some are nice, and some are down right obscene. Great. One un-bored person in Null and of course it's declared a COMPLETE COUNTER-ARGUMENT doncha know ??? My post was meant in jest, not an attack. Sorry for taking interest in what your concerns are.
Quartzlight Evenstar Icefluxor Perkone Caldari State 65	Posted - 2012.05.27 16:56:00 - [140] - Quote bongsmoke wrote: Quartzlight Evenstar Icefluxor wrote: bongsmoke wrote: Mirima Thurander wrote: i blame the mega alliances in null for making eve be boring. Just curious, why? I run a small corp in null, find it fun actually. Not naming other corps, but I enjoy talking to some even though they are trying to find/kill us. Some are nice, and some are down right obscene. Great. One un-bored person in Null and of course it's declared a COMPLETE COUNTER-ARGUMENT doncha know ??? My post was meant in jest, not an attack. Sorry for taking interest in what your concerns are. Sry. Things are just a bit sensitive. Ohh poor silly goon chillrens. Nobody in high sec cares about your plans to occupy jita like a bunch of dirty hippies. "....as if 10,058 Goon voices cried out and were suddenly silenced."

Terranid Meester Tactical Assault and Recon Unit 26	Posted - 2012.05.27 17:00:00 - [141] - Quote So many dweebs!
Virgil Travis GWA Corp Unified Church of the Unobligated 228	Posted - 2012.05.27 17:08:00 - [142] - Quote pussnheels wrote: Alia Gon'die wrote: Quartzlight Evenstar Icefluxor wrote: That's the population averages for the past 3 Sundays 5/6, 5/13, and 5/20. http://eve-offline.net/?server=tranquility Any thoughts about tomorrows ? Instead of taking bets on how low the population is going to go, why not put forth some real ideas to help fix it? tl;dr let's try positive thinking instead of negative thinking a good idea would be a end to this senseless griefing of industrials and miners for the lulz + all because some small minority of idiots and other imbeciels thinks it is their game and theirs alone If they got some balls and teeth then they wouldn't feel like they were being griefed. There are plenty of industrials in high sec who don't get griefed simply because they don't think they're entitled to being 'left alone to play nice'. Get a grip. If the Sims all became zombies it would be easy to escape them, just shove them in a room and make them answer the telephone.
bongsmoke School of Applied Knowledge Caldari State 45	Posted - 2012.05.27 17:09:00 - [143] - Quote Quote: Sry. Things are just a bit sensitive. Believe me I know how it goes. I went hunting last night, 25 jumps found 4 people either docked up, or in a random place alone in their pod. Its weird actually. I havent seen the blobs for a few nights, but the flip side, ratting without worry is better money than lvl 4 missions. It can be boring at times, and exciting also if a group/blob jumps in system. I think with the holiday weekend, a drop in group activities is to be expected. Best wishes P.S. I speak for myself, not even my corpmates...which doesnt matter since i dont post on my main.
bongsmoke School of Applied Knowledge Caldari State 45	Posted - 2012.05.27 17:10:00 - [144] - Quote Terranid Meester wrote: So many dweebs! and what makes your kitty more special than other people?
Quartzlight Evenstar Icefluxor Perkone Caldari State 65	Posted - 2012.05.27 17:13:00 - [145] - Quote Virgil Travis wrote: There are plenty of industrials in high sec who don't get griefed simply because they don't think they're entitled to being 'left alone to play nice'. Get a grip. So....just by THINKING this, the gankers stay away. Right. Got it. Ohh poor silly goon chillrens. Nobody in high sec cares about your plans to occupy jita like a bunch of dirty hippies. "....as if 10,058 Goon voices cried out and were suddenly silenced."
Quartzlight Evenstar Icefluxor Perkone Caldari State 65	Posted - 2012.05.27 17:16:00 - [146] - Quote bongsmoke wrote: I think with the holiday weekend, a drop in group activities is to be expected. I don't know. Before I retired, if I was not actually going somewhere during vacation, I considered it extra time for playing even more games. I know how geeks and gamers think in general. So.............hard to say. Ohh poor silly goon chillrens. Nobody in high sec cares about your plans to occupy jita like a bunch of dirty hippies. "....as if 10,058 Goon voices cried out and were suddenly silenced."
Messoroz AQUILA INC Verge of Collapse 246	Posted - 2012.05.27 17:43:00 - [147] - Quote Miilla wrote: Messoroz wrote: Ban Bindy wrote: http://eve-offline.net/?server=tranquility The decline in usage is pretty clear. I borrowed this link from another post. Lots of excuse-making on the forums, including people claiming that the dip last weekend was due to the wait for the expansion plus Diablo. Excuse this week is just Diablo. But the trend of less usage is clear in the stats. This is the Sunday after expansion and usage is very low at the moment. . It's a holiday weekend right now in the U.S. into/until Monday, stop trying to feel special. You guys have holidays? Wait no, that's called the WEEKEND :) We have them every week :) Memorial Day weekend, people aren't wasting their times on computers.
Alavaria Fera GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation 908	Posted - 2012.05.27 18:00:00 - [148] - Quote Is EVE dead yet? I heard it's been hanging on for a while now. Those who cannot adapt become victims of Evolugalbugaslugakjlwsdhvbzxd
Aruchamet Quantum Pathways 8	Posted - 2012.05.27 18:15:00 - [149] - Quote DeadDuck wrote: I still remember to think: "13000 people online !!! wow this is busy tonight" And that was a sunday.
bongsmoke School of Applied Knowledge Caldari State 45	Posted - 2012.05.27 18:17:00 - [150] - Quote DeadDuck wrote: I still remember to think: "13000 people online !!! wow this is busy tonight" The good old days!


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