Originally by: Master Mnemosyne

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So for a long time EVE has defied MMO trends and continued to increase its subscriber base. This is, of course, because the players (and to some extent the devs) have been creating new content.

But EVE today, at least 0.0 EVE, is largely static. For the past 2 or 3 months, after the collapse of Kenny, nothing significant has changed on the sov map. A few minor alliances (looking at you IRC) have fail cascaded, the drone Russians have taken a few more systems, CVA has dropped some more stations, the NC has added a few more blues.

But nothing significant has changed; there have been no backstabs, no compromising spy leaks, not even any game-changing battles (there have been a few large cap battles, but thanks to the resources available to the alliances involved in said battles, the impact was actually slight).

I took a look at the recruitment forums today, and noticed that there were virtually no 0.0 alliances recruiting. A few unimportant NPC groups (like Blade.) were looking for fresh blood, and a few of the bottom tier pets were trying to expand their tax base. But there were none of posts I used to see during the Delve war, with Bob pets and NC pets all clamouring for new players.

The character bazaar, usually turning over pages at a breakneck pace, was moving sluggishly. Posts from yesterday could be seen on the front page. Few auctions had more than one or two bids.

And in a final testament to this malaise, timecode prices have evidently dropped almost a hundred mil from their high.

Maybe DUST will fix this, maybe CCP can find some other way of encouraging people to keep playing this game. But without heroes and villains and wars of 10,000 player coaliions, there isn't much reason to keep logging in each day.

Eve is dying. Both powerblocks are sitting on their hands waiting for the other to make the first move. Meanwhile their players stop logging in.

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