Bluddwolf
Seventh Mining and Industry Recon Force
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Posted - 2011.01.10 15:07:00 -
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Originally by: Minermemememe Edited by: Minermemememe on 09/01/2011 11:23:33 Eve has the makings of a killer MMO. Very nice gameplay mechanics, it is set in space which appeals to a lot of people, and the bigger my ship becomes, the shinier it gets.
People don't like dying. especially in this MMO because the cost of dying is obscene. WOW has proved that the hardcore grind mentality wont get u a lot of subscribers. Still this mmo has been designed around this failed MMO mechanic and I suppose that there is nothing that they can do about it now. They got caught designing this MMO in the oppossite way when the wow behemoth arrived, so they got clobbered hard. 350k subs compared to wow's 13 million?
Also, aside from the grind design, the real reason why subs never go into the wow numbers is because unlike other MMOs out there, this once actually caters to griefers. I guessed whoever design this thing think its fun to throw level 1 guys in an arena with level 85s. lol.
There's also so many possibilities that a new player can get his azz kicked without him ever learning that there is more to the game. Picture this, new player comes in and is still doing tutorials. Someone invites him to a corp and since he wants to be friendly, he joins up. Now, as it happens, that corp has war declarations from a lot of pvp hardcore guilds out there who would love nothing more than to go to newbie tranining ground and blow the living crap out of the newbies. So this newbie, who's still in tutorial, don't know whats going on. he only knows some guy with the red star keeps blowing him up every time he hits the undock button.
He gets mad and quits the game since he thinks thats all there is to it, getting blown up by players with red star in their names. Not only that he tells every one he knows of the awful experience that he's had. Word of mouth quickly will give the impression that eve is a pvp hardcore, i-get-blown-up-everytime-i-undock game. Too bad guys, you have a great space graphic game here and good gameplay mechanics but you missed it big time in the new player experience.
I'm not sure why I'll feed this troll, probably just bored I guess.
I've played EVE Online for over 6 years.
I played WoW for just a bit over 8 months.
I have never grown bored with playing EVE.
WoW got boring after level 20, and i never made it beyond lvl 47!
Can 11+ million people be wrong, and I am right? Yes!!
I expect that there are at least 11 million crack addicts in the world. 11 million convicted felons in the world. 11 million morons in the world.
The number of people that support something, does not make them right.
To use subscription numbers to say that WOW is a better game or has a better game model is not based on any fair measure. They are two dramatically different games, that cater to two dramatically different kinds of player.
So if you want EVE to become WOW, I suggest you go back to WOW and pretend you are playing EVE. All I know is that I would not return to WOW, even if it were Free to Play. I value my free time to highly to waste it there.
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