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Cyprus Black
Golden Shellbacks Surely You're Joking
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Posted - 2012.04.06 00:00:00 -
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In your gaming life, what led you to find and play EVE Online? Was it a friend? An advertisement? Mentioned by a stranger? What was it? How did you get here?
Me personally, I got sick of WoW after their first expansion, Burning Crusade, and was shopping around for a better MMO. I saw a bunch of people on the WoW forums crapping on other MMOs, most especially EVE.
I tried the trial and thought it was terrible, then left. A few months later I gave it another try and I stayed for about two months. I was wisked away into a 0.0 alliance of which I was totally not ready for. Left EVE again.
Finally came back a third time and it stuck. Now I have two active accounts and will most likely stay until the EVE servers shut down for good. You wouldn't complain about needles when you get a tattoo. So why would you complain about PvP when you play EVE? |
Kacer Xenro
Team Pizza Viro Mors Non Est
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Posted - 2012.04.06 00:04:00 -
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stumbled on the site through some mmo finder in 2003 or something, then saw i had to pay for it.
In 2006 i saw a friend play it and thought it was pretty cool.
in 2009 i found out WOW sucked balls and started my subscription.
my only regret?
that i didnt start playing in 2003, all that wasted SP
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Gogela
Freeport Exploration Loosely Affiliated Pirates Alliance
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Posted - 2012.04.06 00:07:00 -
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Was playing Freelancer mods and a guy who played on my server disappeared. Saw him a few months later and asked him where he'd been and he said "Google EvE Online." I did. Never looked back.
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D3F4ULT
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Posted - 2012.04.06 00:09:00 -
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Was looking for back in 2006ish for a brand new MMO that I could play on my poor little internet connection (Couldn't play anything that requried low latency)
Found EVE by googling through MMO advertising sites. Signed up like 5 times with trial accounts failing miserably at playing the game. Then one year I really bit the bullet and subscribed and really tried and here I am today.
2008 character and still don't know as much as I should, but I love that fact =D Creator of CCP ZULU - Incarna : Pants Online ( http://youtu.be/AObrlCf3Dcs ) |
Petrus Blackshell
Rifterlings
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Posted - 2012.04.06 00:10:00 -
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My boss always kept this weird looking game with shiny spaceships running in the background at work. After some time, I finally asked what it was, and he told me all about how Eve is this super awesome spaceship sandbox MMO, and about all the crazy things that happen all the time here.
After considering it for a few weeks, I started a trial, and subbed fully after maybe 3-4 days. After a couple of weeks I was derping around 0.0 in my Rifter, learning to PvP.
Turns out my boss wasn't actually into the PvP aspect at all (more of an industrialist), so we really never had much in common, but, hey.
Spreadsheets! Spaceships! Rifterlings - Small gang lowsec combat corp specializing in frigates and cruisers (all races, not just Rifters!). US Timezone veterans and newbies alike are welcome to join. Come chat in the "we fly rifters" in-game channel. Free fitted frigates for members! |
Nimbus Cloud Liebrum
Center for Advanced Studies Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2012.04.06 00:10:00 -
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im a big fan of space and saw an ad on a space website and it looked interesting. thats pretty much it. i play eve to explore and enjoy the scenery myself. Peaceful Explorer |
Neros Kosk
Golden Shellbacks Surely You're Joking
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Posted - 2012.04.06 00:11:00 -
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Back in 2008 I had a job working for my cousin at the mall. I met this guy there from Maryland working at the salad place I would always go to for lunch and after becomming friends and spokin a few he told me about EVE.
Watching EVE Online while high on a laptop did not impress me what so ever, but I gave it a try anyway and abosulutely love it. I quit WoW and started EVE but soon found out it sucked terribly to play this game alone so I had to quit. Couple years later I decided to give it a try again and actually met some decent people on here and never looked back.
I have noticed how incredibly hard it is to lure my WoW and TOR friends to play this game though. The videos don't do it much justice and when they see me ship spinning in WH space they question my stories of PVP and adrenaline rushes. It seems there never at my house when crazy **** goes down haha. |
Roll Sizzle Beef
Space Mutiny
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Posted - 2012.04.06 00:12:00 -
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super cheep on steam about 2 years ago |
Mentorm
Republic University Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2012.04.06 00:16:00 -
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2004 My flat mate across the hall at Uni, about a week after I first had access to the internet!
Never looked back... |
ShadowFire15
BOAE INC GIANTSBANE.
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Posted - 2012.04.06 00:18:00 -
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i think i saw an ad for it on some site. saw it was about space and spaceships so decided to give it a try. a few trial accounts and later a job to pay for an account and here I am now. I miss the feeling of when I just started out murdering those ultra noob pirates in my ibis. :D Stan Smith had a snow storm over weekend guy was shoveling snow outside, so i shot him and mined the snow myself. concord never showed up. on an unrelated note, i have a court date next tuesday |
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Andy Landen
The Illuminatii Mildly Intoxicated
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Posted - 2012.04.06 00:20:00 -
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I did a google search for spaceship game. Started Gallente but didn't understand tanking at all, or warping out without your T1 drones. Somewhere in the tutorials, they should say that civilian stuff is junk. They should also say that there is no save button. Totally dropped my jaw to learn that the first time. Since I hated gallente, I almost left the game for good until I found the help channel and a very helpful player who encouraged me to start over right with their friend invite for a much longer trial. Never did see them after that though. But it was the market and wormholes that hooked me. So CCP, improve those. Buy orders on the margin which fail certainly undermine the market to a large degree because you can't count on the buy orders being legitimate/good. But I digress a little. |
Ocih
Space Mermaids Somethin Awfull Forums
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Posted - 2012.04.06 00:21:00 -
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While in a Vietnamese prison. |
Burseg Sardaukar
Sardaukar Merc Guild General Tso's Alliance
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Posted - 2012.04.06 00:22:00 -
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I used to be an FPS/RTS only kind of guy. Never liked the idea of paying more than once for a game.
Planetside changed that, as it was an MMO-FPS. That game died from lack of updates, and got real stagnant.
My roommate and another couple guys in my unit were talking about EvE and it sounded pretty badass. This was 2006. I got started, learned to play mostly through my own mistakes and my roomate's instruction (although he was a huge noob, too, looking back on it.)
And here I am 6 years later. My roommate ragequit after the first war where our corp seriously got our asses handed to us, I took up the CEO role and we still suck. Except at suicide-ganking stuff. We can at least do that. We have a blog, it is terrible. How to fix Bounty Hunting |
Muad 'dib
The Imperial Fedaykin
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Posted - 2012.04.06 00:28:00 -
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it found me in 2003.
Just a box on a shelf in PC world, with space stuff on the back that looked cool.
I didnt even know it was online, good job i had a good connection like 4 months before. http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/4375/mynewsig2.jpg |
Mara Rinn
Cosmic Industrial Complex Cosmic Consortium
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Posted - 2012.04.06 00:29:00 -
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One day I saw an announcement on the Apple site about this spaceship MMO that had been ported to Mac. It's really as simple as that: quit WoW, played EVE instead.
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Ghoest
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Posted - 2012.04.06 00:31:00 -
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Back during beta evereyone was like - "oooh EVEs ciming it will be THE game".
And I was like "Hmmm Ill wait a bit and see."
Then Mo0 happened.
Then CCP destroyed Mo0) and everyone rejoiced.
So 6 months in I was like "Ok time to try it."
Then I was like 'hey wtf theres no one around to fight"
But I staid because "Nouvelle Rouvenor Hero" is freaken awesome.
Wherever You Went - Here You Are |
Ursula Thrace
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Posted - 2012.04.06 00:37:00 -
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I found EVE via Google in 2007, but didn't start a trial account for another year or so. I was so lost, I just gave up after the trial ended.
In 2009, I started another trial account and when that ended, I began subscribing. After having tried many MMOs over the years, I still tell friends that EVE is simply the best. I plan to be here for the long haul. |
Christopher AET
Segmentum Solar Intrepid Crossing
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Posted - 2012.04.06 00:38:00 -
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2008 I saw an article in a magazine. April 2009 I was back for 3 weeks leave in the middle of a 6 month deployment in the middle east. downloaded it on leave. Managed to keep playing on the second half of my deployment despite crappy net, never looked back. |
Richard Aiel
Caldari Provisions Caldari State
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Posted - 2012.04.06 00:44:00 -
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stumbled across the Guiding Hand Social Club news article Ravan Hekki: "Well done CCP. Banned tears the best sort of tears." especially Goon tears
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Cyran Thiatist
Sharp Research
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Posted - 2012.04.06 00:44:00 -
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I had just gotten an alienware a year ago and was looking for a good mmo to play. I tried easily 10 mmos before I stumbled upon this one in some article for best mmos. The screen shots, tales of espionage and 1000man fleet battles got me hooked. I almost quit after day 1 because I didn't know how to move my ship right away. I tried again the next day and got hooked from that moment on. |
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Richard Aiel
Caldari Provisions Caldari State
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Posted - 2012.04.06 00:45:00 -
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Petrus Blackshell wrote:My boss always kept this weird looking game with shiny spaceships running in the background at work. After some time, I finally asked what it was, and he told me all about how Eve is this super awesome spaceship sandbox MMO, and about all the crazy things that happen all the time here.
After considering it for a few weeks, I started a trial, and subbed fully after maybe 3-4 days. After a couple of weeks I was derping around 0.0 in my Rifter, learning to PvP.
Turns out my boss wasn't actually into the PvP aspect at all (more of an industrialist), so we really never had much in common, but, hey.
Spreadsheets! Spaceships!
ooooh tell me you ganked him lol
Ravan Hekki: "Well done CCP. Banned tears the best sort of tears." especially Goon tears
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Vertisce Soritenshi
Varion Galactic Tragedy.
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Posted - 2012.04.06 00:47:00 -
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Beta. Long time ago in a city far far away... EvE is not about PvP.-á EvE is about the SANDBOX! - CCP!-á Open the door!!! |
Mohr Cowbell
Dreddit Test Alliance Please Ignore
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Posted - 2012.04.06 00:56:00 -
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I think I discovered Eve after playing Anarchy Online and/or SWG for a short while. Before long, I was wondering why the hell I rarely saw anyone else online in AO. This was probably around 2003 or so. I remember getting a beta invite for Eve, but, I don't think that I really tried it out until a couple of years after that. When I did, I didn't know WTF was going on, and didn't stay very long. (I also had a lot going on IRL so I didn't have the patience to really learn it.)
I tried Eve again a couple of times, until 2009 or so, until I finally tried it again. And I think I became a regular in 2010 after seeing some threads about in "various places". |
Dagwood Steele
Kings 0f XXX
3
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Posted - 2012.04.06 00:57:00 -
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Stopped by CCPs booth (well, table) at E3 '03. Had a little convo with (maybe TomB) someone and was like "you implemented this in python???!!one". Bought the box the day it came out but only installed it about two months later due to work. Been paid up ever since (this is not my main). |
Serene Repose
Perkone Caldari State
540
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Posted - 2012.04.06 00:57:00 -
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I was studying serial killers and pathological liars and found a link amid this copious material I was wading through.
Smokestack lightnin' shinin' just like gold |
Petrus Blackshell
Rifterlings
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Posted - 2012.04.06 01:07:00 -
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Richard Aiel wrote:Petrus Blackshell wrote:My boss always kept this weird looking game with shiny spaceships running in the background at work. After some time, I finally asked what it was, and he told me all about how Eve is this super awesome spaceship sandbox MMO, and about all the crazy things that happen all the time here.
After considering it for a few weeks, I started a trial, and subbed fully after maybe 3-4 days. After a couple of weeks I was derping around 0.0 in my Rifter, learning to PvP.
Turns out my boss wasn't actually into the PvP aspect at all (more of an industrialist), so we really never had much in common, but, hey.
Spreadsheets! Spaceships! ooooh tell me you ganked him lol AWOXing is generally looked down upon.
Besides, I had plenty of CVA to kill (I was part of Ushra'Khan). Rifterlings - Small gang lowsec combat corp specializing in frigates and cruisers (all races, not just Rifters!). US Timezone veterans and newbies alike are welcome to join. Come chat in the "we fly rifters" in-game channel. Free fitted frigates for members! |
Richard Aiel
Caldari Provisions Caldari State
131
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Posted - 2012.04.06 01:08:00 -
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Serene Repose wrote:I was studying serial killers and pathological liars and found a link amid this copious material I was wading through.
Dont you mean sociopaths and cyberbullies rofl
Ravan Hekki: "Well done CCP. Banned tears the best sort of tears." especially Goon tears
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Hroya
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Posted - 2012.04.06 01:18:00 -
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After EA's canning of E&B i wanted spaceships again. Saw eve, dont remember where, back in early 04 and signed up. Clueless and impressed and i never got any less clueless or less impressed since.
Went to the first fanfest and have good memories of that one. -i was there-
Along the way took a few hiata now and then but eve never lets go but along the way it made me understand that no matter how smart, dumb, evil, rightious, slacking, inspiring, active or casuall you are, in Eve there is allways room for you. Eve just caters all.
And that is why it is the best damn mmo out there. You decide everything, you risk everything.
You go your corridor but. |
Killer Gandry
V I R I I Ineluctable.
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Posted - 2012.04.06 01:24:00 -
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Also a former Earth&Beyind player. When EA started raping the game I downloaded EVE after it getting reckomended by someone else I flew with in E&B.
I take my breaks in between but keep returning.
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Meryl SinGarda
Belligerent Underpayed Tactical Team
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Posted - 2012.04.06 01:25:00 -
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I originally found EVE back in 2003/2004 when I first started playing the MMO, Anarchy Online. I was hanging out with members of a player oganisation I had joined and one of them was talking about this guy, (not exact quote) "yeah, it sounds way better than AO. I hear he's lvl 400." and the other friend asked something along the lines of, "what's the cap?!" Which was followed by, "there is no cap."
That right there sparked my interest. But the image that was embedded in my mind at that moment was something like two-dimensional spaceships flying against a black background with strange faces, lots of money and a never-ending level grind.
Around 2005/2006 some bad things happened in a player organisation a friend and I had been running, so I tried out EVE. Confused the bejeebers out of me and dropped it immediately.
3 to 4 years later, after constantly being in and out of WoW, due to its horrible community and unsatisfying gameplay, I came back.
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