SamtheDog
Singularity.
Talon Alliance
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Posted - 2010.10.21 04:00:00 -
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I played this game during beta, and have since 2004. These past few months though I've found myself playing less and less and thought about it for a long time as to why I didn't have the urge to log in and do my thing in eve. The game has grown immeansely during since I played in 2004. When 5000 players online at a time was considered busy, space was emptier and there was a real of unforseen achievement.
Eve's greatest strengh is that it never ends. It's largely a game of anticipation where you plan, prepare and anticipate going to a higher level of ships and ability to give you an edge. Putting economy on top, this makes for some macro and micro management of characters and how you play the game. The politics and social interaction has created some real-life meaning and friendships when players have played the game for years.
Eve has introduced content, but it's not really geared for those who are in the latter part of the game. Most content has been flooded in for newer - mid level players. Wormhole space was a failure. Yes it was new, I found a few and found nothing overly pleasing from it. Signature stuff in space was also added, but also meaningless due to its repetitiveness and non-inspired content.
Capitals were cool when first released, supercaps and titans were also increadible at the beginning. The first Avatar loss by Cyvok was real news. There was a sense of conquest and the wars down South were incredible points of conflict that brought many years of enjoyment through wars and politics. We don't feel that much anymore. Supercaps get popped daily and titans also drop often enough not to be a real accomplishment anymore. The insurance didn't help, since it made pvp actually profitable after a loss. There was no real sense of loss.
The latest patch of insurance was an improvement, but Eve has hit a real ceiling. I have Titan 5 trained for Amarr. That's the most difficult skill to train time wise and I did it because in all reality I had nothing better to train for. I flew an avatar for a while, and sold it. I have hit the pinnacle points in eve skillwise to accomplish, and now there is nothing left to strive for. Except for making isk when I feel like it, I've also found myself with 5 plexed accounts until July 2012, but there is really nothing left to strive for. What CCP really needs to understand is that there must ALWAYS be something to strive for in Eve. After 6 years of gameplay, we still need something to strive for. We need Tech 2 caps and supercaps with insane requirements. We need tech 4 and tech 5 ships. CCP would do well to create enough materials that would require a player to train for another 5 years to play with the new toys. Not just peicemeal additions of meaningless ships, but stuff that does pack a punch.....a REAL punch.
Until then, Eve has stagnated for its older players. There is so little left to accomplish, that without its main base that kept CCP going for so long, CCP will have reached its peak with small to meaningless additions of substandard additions content wise.
I do have faith though, otherwise I would not have plexed for 2 years.
Sam
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