Originally by: Minermemememe

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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? Quantity doesn't equal Quality. McDonalds food isn't the best, you know?




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. Indeed it is. But I've seen "level 1" guys horribly embarrass "level 80" guys. This is actually what makes EVE GOOD.




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. Forums and Tutorials exist for a reason. If he doesn't check them him self, he may as well keep getting blown up into ragequitting. We won't miss him.



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. And finally, the necessary trollololol: This thread is bad and you should feel bad about it.

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