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Zircon Dasher
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Posted - 2012.04.06 01:49:00 -
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A guy I worked with in ought-five told me about it.
EVE is the first and only MMO I have ever played. |
Chokichi Ozuwara
Royal One Piece Corporation Deadly Unknown
83
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Posted - 2012.04.06 02:07:00 -
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A friend was trialing. I had seen ads for it years ago, and while I love spaceship Scifi, I didn't get what Eve was about (crappy ads, too abstract).
I tried it, and I was hooked, although the onramp experience for new users is crap, and it is a surprise that CCP is able to grow their market share at all given the way things are structured.
Today about 6 months later, I have 3 accounts, I do a little pew pew now with RvB, I do market trading (almost have every market skill lvl 5'd) and I am planning to spend time in wormholes with some in game Dutch friends I made.
Eve is a great game, but it's going to need a very active and diligent developer to keep it interesting (and worthwhile) for me over time. Tears will be shed and pants will need to be changed all round. |
Kessiaan
Greater Order Of Destruction Happy Endings
152
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Posted - 2012.04.06 02:10:00 -
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It was 2007, and I was looking for a game that wasn't trying to clone WoW.
The endless parade of WoW clones continues, and I'm still here. My killboard - http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/combat_record.php?type=player&name=Kessiaan |
Dessau
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Posted - 2012.04.06 02:24:00 -
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Back in 2008 my brother was a junior at university, I was working for a large JP gaming company. At that point I played action ORPGs for the most part: Phantasy Star Online, Monster Hunter... I had MMO experience with UO but that was about it.
Anyway, my brother is goes home on a break and, knowing I'm heavy about sci-fi, sends me a message from across the country, "Have you tried EVE Online? It's got all kinds of crazy math, a player-run economy, I think you'd like it."
He was right and here we are, still playing. CCP. Non-Russians deserve red jackets. As an alternative, I would also accept some form of USA-only content. |
Ender Black
Lone Star Exploration Lone Star Partners
109
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Posted - 2012.04.06 02:34:00 -
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I found EVE at my local EB Games in 2004 in the box. I was intrigued by the idea of a space MMO and was enjoying the RvR combat of DAoC at the time and thought, "what the hell....might as well try it." Couldn't for the life of me figure out the game and never subbed. Tried it again in 2006 after some scandal reported in the gaming news and have stuck with it since. The Pod Goo Podcast http://www.podgoo.com
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Ai Shun
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Posted - 2012.04.06 02:45:00 -
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Cyprus Black wrote: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?
The Guiding Hand Social Club and this pure EVE goodness was what interested me first. Never played it until a friend on my site mentioned he was playing; so I decided to give it a go from there.
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Darronis Olachenko
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Posted - 2012.04.06 04:27:00 -
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Back in late 2010 a friend and I were bored and glancing around the games section at some store. I recall making some remark like "Man, I wish there was like, a space combat mmo. Nothing but ships, flying and fighting, fleet battles, piracy, that kind of thing." He responded by telling me such a game existed called Eve Online, and that one of his buddies back in the army played it. Came home and looked it up on youtube. Started up a trial, go hooked, and never looked back. |
ACE McFACE
Acetech Systems
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Posted - 2012.04.06 04:46:00 -
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My friend kept saying how great EVE was and how its all about the pew. Now before then I had never really played and MMO and I was a bit 'eh' on the idea. One day however I was sick and had nothing better to do so I decided to download the client and play the trial. Needless to say it was a good choice and it has ruined any other MMO I may have considered playing Real men wear goggles and a Navy shirt! |
Herzog Wolfhammer
Sigma Special Tactics Group
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Posted - 2012.04.06 04:48:00 -
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I found EvE by one of those banner ads you see everywhere.
Funny thing is I thought those ads would stop coming yet still they come. Makes me suspicious. |
Parthonax
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Posted - 2012.04.06 04:49:00 -
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found it in 2007 while surfing the internet but i didn't had a pc then that could run the thing so i started my first sibscription in early2009 I always loved Sci Fi and i really loved this game and i still think the whole concept of eve is brilliant but i am done with it
i am sick and tired of CCPs blatant favouritism toward nullsec and griefers i am sick and tired being forced into pvp EACH time i log in( i do like pvp , just not each time i log in ) , i am sick and tired the way industry and small medium corporations are being treated by CCP , being treated almost like it is a nuiscance and a embarrasment to them Also sick and tired of that white trash bunnch of idiots in a certain nullsec alliance sick and tired of CCP lies and hypocricy
i do not think this game will last for another 2 years , not with the current rate subscribers are leaving you can dress up a death body with all sort of fancy clothes it still is a death body
so this is permanence |
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Mr M
Agony Unleashed
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Posted - 2012.04.06 05:05:00 -
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Saw it on some site that listed games in development in 2002/2003 and applied for beta testing.
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Tiberius Amzadee
The Omega Sovereign Flux Initiative
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Posted - 2012.04.06 05:08:00 -
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I remember it like it was yesterday,June of 2003,sitting in the game department shelf at a Walmart just outside of Norfolk,VA. I got fed up with and trashed Star Trek:Bridge Commander that kept crashing my back then top of the line dell laptop. In search for something different then Star Trek and Star Wars I found EVE,loaded it up,it ran more smoothly then any game I ever played on PC's,still does and found no equal ever since. |
Darth Gustav
Sons Of 0din Fatal Ascension
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Posted - 2012.04.06 05:10:00 -
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A friend I hadn't talked to in a few days called me up and sounded like he had gotten himself a new crack addiction.
After a few minutes I realized he was talking about Internet Spaceships and signed up for the trial.
Which I then couldn't access. Due to trial account throttlihg. Due to "macrominers" as they were then called.
My perception of CCP started on a very, very good note. Let me tell you. He who trolls trolls best when he who is trolled trolls the troller. -Darth Gustav's Axiom |
Adunh Slavy
Ammatar Trade Syndicate
528
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Posted - 2012.04.06 05:12:00 -
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Was looking for freelancer mods and came across the ad. |
Skorpynekomimi
Omega Vector
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Posted - 2012.04.06 05:25:00 -
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A couple of friends were in the beta. It looked good. Then they were established, and I wanted in. When more friends picked it up.
Finally, I had a job, and time to play it, and spare income. I picked up the trial, just to see if I could get on with it. Then I ragequit; the tutorial gave me a ship I needed, but couldn't fly unless I paid up. Half an hour later, I was subscribed and playing again. Haven't looked back since. |
Fearless M0F0
Incursion PWNAGE Asc
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Posted - 2012.04.06 05:34:00 -
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I first read about eve from a Slashdot article about some big scam sometime in 2007, I checked it out, no linux client, meh (my home is Microsoft free since 2003, ironic since i'm a c# developer)
A few months later I read on Slashdot CCP released a linux client, I read the comments about being just the windows client wrapped in cedega. I though I had to pay for Cedega to play so I passed.
Then, by the end of the year, another Slashdot article about yet another scam and reading through the comments I came across a great story from some Goon dude in the early days of the game. He described his adventures flying many jumps through nullsec to buy his first cruiser and things like that. The universe he described got me very interested. I lurked through the forums. I also learned I didn't have to pay for Cedega to try the game.
I downloaded and installed the "linux client" on January 1st, 2008. I took me just a couple days to decide the game was worth $15/month so I paid the subscription. After a week I was ordering a better video card and by the end of the month I was playing the premium client through Wine ...
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killorbekilled TBE
Dare Bears
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Posted - 2012.04.06 05:45:00 -
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used to play freelancer, eve seemed like the next logical choice
i guess one day ill be posting in another thread saying ' yeah i used to play eve and it led me here' lols huh? |
leviticus ander
CATO.nss
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Posted - 2012.04.06 05:48:00 -
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Harden the F*** Up I was linked that while I was playing WoW. looked at it, took a look at the other video they had up and almost immediately started a trial. got in contact with the person who linked it to me and found that they play too, but very infrequently. ended up finding a corp made of members from another unrelated forum I had been on for quite some time, joined them, got yelled at about terrible fits and skills for about a year until I started picking it all up. been around since because of the song linked above. |
Pak Narhoo
Knights of Kador Aegis Militia
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Posted - 2012.04.06 06:29:00 -
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Saw an ad on a PC gaming site with a horizontal flying Myrmidon and was like, ohh wouldn't that be something if it came to the Mac. Went to this "EVE" site and started downloading backgrounds and kewl music, then moved on. Unpossible something cool like that would come to my platform.
Then in 2007 it actually did and I jumped right in. Went from trial to full on my third day, had a second account in my second week.
When it comes to MMO's, EVE is my first, my last, my everything. Who needs television when you have EVE? EVE drama, best drama. |
Tobiaz
Spacerats
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Posted - 2012.04.06 08:11:00 -
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I saw screenshots from 2002 early beta on the IGN website. It looked cool, so I signed up for the open beta and got to 'test' it for about a month. Pre-ordered the box, which came more then 3 weeks after The Second Genesis came out
My first char was a total carebear, spending months chained to a station in algogille selling battleships for Techell http://go-dl.eve-files.com/media/corp/Tobiaz/sig_complaints.gif
How about fixing image-linking on the forums, CCP? I want to see signatures! |
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XIRUSPHERE
In Bacon We Trust
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Posted - 2012.04.06 08:55:00 -
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Heard about EVE while it was closed beta when I played Earth and Beyond many moons ago and signed up for it. Ended up getting into closed beta for a few months and had quite a bit of fun and broke a few things that are still broken to this day. Took a 3 year break shortly after launch for various reasons and have been back since 07. The advantage of a bad memory is that one can enjoy the same good things for the first time several times.
One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear. |
Rico Minali
Sons Of 0din Fatal Ascension
527
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Posted - 2012.04.06 08:56:00 -
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My brother and I were looking for a sci fi mmo back in early 07, looked around alot saw many that 'might' be good enough then we saw the Eve Never Fades video and subscribed pretty much there and then. My brother quit about a year ago but Im still here. Trust me, I almost know what I'm doing. |
Ottersmacker
Genos Occidere HYDRA RELOADED
131
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Posted - 2012.04.06 08:58:00 -
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I read Nightfreeze's scam story and watched AT2 recordings, that was enough to get me to try. The Order of the Falcon or Hin +ˇslenska f+ílkaor+¦a is a national Order of Iceland |
baltec1
1038
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Posted - 2012.04.06 09:05:00 -
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SWG was murdered by SOE and EVE was the only other MMO offering a real market and risk. |
Meryl SinGarda
Belligerent Underpayed Tactical Team
419
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Posted - 2012.04.06 09:07:00 -
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baltec1 wrote:SWG was murdered by SOE and EVE was the only other MMO offering a real market and risk.
I wish I could have been around for SWG when it wasn't crap. I heard about it way too late. Also, can't stand SWTOR. But I'll stop. I have no reason to derail/troll this thread. ;D
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Elsebeth Rhiannon
Gradient Electus Matari
227
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Posted - 2012.04.06 09:12:00 -
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I used to play Anarchy Online, which had a lovely shades-of-grey scifi setting, which was totally ruined by wanting to make it a WoW and adding an idiotic background story about ebil superbeing controlling one side and oh gods don't make me think about it, it was too traumatic. The final straw was when in a dev chat the main storydev outright told astonished players that he thinks only stories with clearly defined good and evil are good stories. When the Shadowlands expansion did not really add anything fun to the gameplay either, I started to look for another scifi mmog and found EVE, which was then just out of beta and getting rave reviews comparing it to a "multiplayer Elite". |
Meryl SinGarda
Belligerent Underpayed Tactical Team
419
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Posted - 2012.04.06 09:23:00 -
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Elsebeth Rhiannon wrote:I used to play Anarchy Online, which had a lovely shades-of-grey scifi setting, which was totally ruined by wanting to make it into a better-selling fantasy game and adding an idiotic background story about ebil superbeings controlling one side and goodiegood superbeing controlling the other and oh gods don't make me think about it, it was too traumatic. The final straw was when in a dev chat the main storydev outright told astonished players that he thinks only stories with clearly defined good and evil are good stories. When the Shadowlands expansion did not really add anything fun to the gameplay either, I started to look for another scifi mmog and found EVE, which was then just out of beta and getting rave reviews comparing it to a "multiplayer Elite". I think I read about it first from some game site that listed MMOGs, but I cannot recall what the site was called. My RL friends who used to play AO soon followed me too.
Initially, I got most hooked by the fact that there was no real limits to who can play with whom. Friends could join months or years after me, and we could still meaningfully help each other on operations etc. No need to all have chars that we keep close to the same levels etc. It's a wonder that MMOGs in general have not moved away from that by now, tbh.
EDITed to add: hi to all ex-AOers. :) Seems a bunch of us made the switch in 2003/2004.
I'm interested as to which realm you were playing on. I probably wouldn't remember names, but I was on rk2 around that time and playing with an organisation called "Dark Templars of the Phoenix"
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Elsebeth Rhiannon
Gradient Electus Matari
228
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Posted - 2012.04.06 09:34:00 -
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Meryl SinGarda wrote:I'm interested as to which realm you were playing on. I probably wouldn't remember names, but I was on rk2 around that time and playing with an organisation called "Dark Templars of the Phoenix" I played for Shattered Dreams (neutral RP org) for a long time. I forget the server realm, tbh. I was trying to setup my own omnitek RP org around the time I quit. |
ctx2007
Wychwood and Wells
14
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Posted - 2012.04.06 09:36:00 -
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Like many i was a Freelancer player but it lacked updates, so found EVE in 2004 and did the trail but had a time comsuming job and could not afford the subscription so quit.
Rejoined in 2007 and not looked back since and that S*****y job has gone too |
Meryl SinGarda
Belligerent Underpayed Tactical Team
419
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Posted - 2012.04.06 09:38:00 -
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Elsebeth Rhiannon wrote:Meryl SinGarda wrote:I'm interested as to which realm you were playing on. I probably wouldn't remember names, but I was on rk2 around that time and playing with an organisation called "Dark Templars of the Phoenix" I played for Shattered Dreams (neutral RP org) for a long time. I forget the server realm, tbh. I was trying to setup my own omnitek RP org around the time I quit.
Then you were on RK2. I recently took a look around Rubika and both Shattered Dreams and its leader is still around. Also, my character was Nuhmudiira.
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