Demangel
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Posted - 2009.12.31 04:11:00 -
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I'm pretty sure I'm not totally alone here, but as this is just about the EVE of a new year, I Got to wondering...
I am certainly one of the longest paid subscriptions in the game. Though I haven't always been active, it occurs to me that over the years I have paid CCP hundreds of dollars in subscription. IT is the one MMO I have played or at least kept paying for all this time, and the one that I never see myself completely putting down ever.
Though I missed out on tons of training time...
So my question is, Ho long have you been playing, or at least subscribed to eve for? I think I took a break once or twice for up to 6 mo's but I was actively subscribed pretty much the second day after EVE was released in the USA.
I was a fan of EVE back when we had the NDA and beta was a magic mystery... Back when EVE was quite embryonic compared to what it is now.
Imagine those first few weeks of EVE.
I can remember them... Despite a thousand and one bugs and Server roll back or two Oh and a Crash to Desktop issue...
EVE was a blast in the beginning... Back when earning your first million ISK was actually something of a challenge, when you had to basically mine, or ninja mine what ever you could find... I remember the first time I saw a Player in a cruiser... It was a week or two into the game, and it was an Exequeror... I thought it was the most amazing thing to ever see and here I thought I was bad ass in my Tristan...
Back in the days of module stacking, and lack of anything to do for money really besides trade or mine. Oh god, the TechII Mining laser fiasco...
The game has come a VERY VERY long way...
To anyone who thinks eve has problems now, you should have seen it's glory days.
Do you have ANY idea how balanced the game feels to a guy like me who has played just about ever patch and incarnation of EVE that was made public?
I remember when damage mod stacking was te ****nit, the first flavor of the month was projectiles with damage mods. Then came lasers, then caldari missile imbalance ruled EVE for quite a LONG time... It got so bad you could fit cruise missiles on frigates, and we're not talking your wimpy nerfy cruise missiles of today that do only a tiny fraction of damage to smaller targets, but when they did full on damage to everything... Imagine a time when you could have an interceptor (crow), or tI frig (Kestrel), which could volley 2 or more cruise missiles at you, imagine 3 being enough to smack even the feared taranis into next week...
Oh the safe spot fun...
Hell anyone remember deploy-able mines and mine launchers? How people would flood jump gate entry points with cans and mines and junk to cause lag for people jumping in... before jump cloak protection!?
So what does this ancient old fart think of EVE now?
Let me tell you something... EVE has only gotten better, Every time I check out the new expansion and play for a few months, the game is a marvel and has never really lost that sense of wonder...
Oh sure it's still not perfect, and I have plenty of things I wish would get added or change... but I'll be paying and playing for a long time...
What say you?
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