Adalun Dey
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2012.06.14 20:00:00 -
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Arkanus Shun wrote:2) Everything... takes too long. ...
So, while I am in the mood to do the quest, I cannot. I can do something else, but that is not my desire. I want to finish this questline. WAIT! then for a half hour or an hour for the skill to finish then and you can finish the questline! Why?
Aoin is free to play, so why don't I play that for a half hour while I wait for EVE to finish that skill advance. Or you know what, I will just play this other game instead. Done, you have killed a customer.
Eve certainly suffers from a steep learning curve, most even refer to it as a learning cliff. New players are thrown in the middle of it all and the tutorial, though useful, isn't very engaging. I believe improvements could be made in this regard by streamlining and simplifying the early game for newcomers. The official website already mentions professions, such as pirate, industrialist, miner, mercenary, but incorporating these options into the starter experience within the game itself would go a long way to narrowing down the amount of information that needs to be processed early on.
Arkanus Shun wrote:If you honestly want more money, you have to actually value your customers, and their time. I will not wait 30 minutes for food in a restaurant. I will not wait 5 days for delivery of a purchased CAR. Yet here, in a game, I am supposed to wait for a virtual item to be created that in reality takes a nanosecond to create in game. No, sorry.
"But that creates value because it makes it rarer!" I could not give a crap. I have too much self confidence and self respect for that.
It's not so much the destination that matters, but the journey that gets you there.
I know of very few games that start with the endgame. WoW lets you start out with a lvl 1 character in a world filled with lvl capped characters and you are pretty much useless to other players until you reach that cap. For the first couple of months the game is limited to grinding up your character, mostly by yourself.
In EVE you don't need to train your skills up to lvl 5 to be of use in a wide variety of activities. As a matter of fact, Goonswarm started out as corporation consisting of low skilled players flying nothing more than Rifters, a type of ships you can easily get into within your first month in the game. To this day, newbies are still being put into Rifters and into pvp situations.
" Take my love, take my land, take me where I can not stand,
I don't care, I'm still free. You can't take the sky from me. "
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