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Simetraz
State War Academy Caldari State
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Posted - 2011.09.27 14:49:00 -
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Desert Ice78 wrote:What I found interesting is that as soon as Eve really started to go into terminal decline this year, all the "Eve is dying" threads suddenly dried up!
Why is that me wonders......
Because the people that posted the threads walked away for a couple months and now that a new expansion is coming those same players are logging back in with the same old rhetoric.
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Cipher Jones
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Posted - 2011.09.27 15:25:00 -
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I was playing the weekend before last and noticed the PCU was up.
I was playing this past weekend and noticed the PCU was up.
I've been coming to the forums since '09 and there has beenan eve is dying thread every day.
I looked at the chart you posted and noticed there were about a dozen drops in PCU since the begining.
I looked on eve search and there have been "eve is dying" threads since the begining.
The only logical conclusion is that eve is dying.
Next poster can have my stuff.
See what happens when fat neckbeards try to ride little ponies? The ponies die. |
Alxea
U-208 Bacon Fortress Gaming Syndicate
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Posted - 2011.09.27 15:36:00 -
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Alxea
U-208 Bacon Fortress Gaming Syndicate
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Posted - 2011.09.27 15:39:00 -
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Alxea
U-208 Bacon Fortress Gaming Syndicate
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Posted - 2011.09.27 15:39:00 -
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Alxea wrote:[quote=Cedar Locus]looking at the number of players on http://eve-offline.net/?server=tranquility it looks like eve is dying also with the wod thing.... It's kinda unsettling, so....am i missing something? some great stuff coming up? wtf (also, fix the ******* forum you fucktards. postings shouldnt dissapear....) WTF are you talking about? The max today was 40k players. Average amount on every day
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Alxea
U-208 Bacon Fortress Gaming Syndicate
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Posted - 2011.09.27 15:42:00 -
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Tyrnaeg en Varche wrote:Graic wrote:Mart Allini wrote:Another eve is dying is thread. yawn
More importantly: am I the only one that finds it weird that eve-offline charts time going from right to left. I've seen many charts in my life, and its the first time I've seen it done like that. Try this OMG -- EVE is dying every day from 12:00 to 13:00... and then it comes to life again at 14:00. spooky
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Psychophantic
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Posted - 2011.09.27 16:01:00 -
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Still steadily dropping since Incarna.
I'll wager that while they're maintaining their new player turnover / retention there's a lot of disgruntled older players getting fed up with the broken promises and "soon".
At least the "but it's summer, that's why its dropping, everyone's on holidays" argument has fallen by the wayside. |
Akita T
Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
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Posted - 2011.09.27 16:26:00 -
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String of underwhelming expansions, endless delays of cool stuff, replacing functional borderline decent stuff with wannabe cool semi-functional (or non-functional) junk, long-standing gameplay balance issues, focus on frivolous matters, MISGUIDED AND/OR DISCONNECTED-FROM-REALITY CCP LEADERSHIP RANKS...
...ok, EVE is not about to become dead too soon, but it's certainly in a noticeable decline, and that decline might be accelerating in spite of half-assed appeasement "damage control" attempts. More and more people stop believing the hype and adopt a "I'll believe it when I SEE it" attitude, with optional "and maybe I'll be back then" cancellations.
I, for one, kinda' stopped caring TOO much. I still care a little, but less and less every day. I'll stick around until they close the doors though, because sadly everything else sucks even more. http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Contributor_name:Akita_T#Contributions_link_collection |
Lord Wiggin
Furian Necromongers
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Posted - 2011.09.27 16:30:00 -
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Desert Ice78 wrote:What I found interesting is that as soon as Eve really started to go into terminal decline this year, all the "Eve is dying" threads suddenly dried up!
Why is that me wonders......
Perhaps the people that care unsubscribed?
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Froz3nEcho Sarain
Blue Republic RvB - BLUE Republic
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Posted - 2011.09.27 17:06:00 -
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The only thing I see is a decline in players because of the summer and some people might have unsubbed some alts because of the eurocrisis.
Cause it is the same graph as the year before. ~ When everything fades away, an echo is the only sound that will remain ~ -á-á~ Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds ~ |
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Akita T
Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
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Posted - 2011.09.27 17:29:00 -
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Froz3nEcho Sarain wrote:The only thing I see is a decline in players because of the summer EVE never actually had noteworthy drops in average online players due to the summer. At most, there was a barely noticeable OCCASIONAL dip, but more often than not, summer average online numbers were actually QUITE HIGH. IN FACT, EVE actually has a "winter dip" that's more pronounced and more regular than any occasional summer dips. And that's when you're looking at cold, hard numbers ( http://jestertrek.blogspot.com/2011/08/some-curves-arent.html ) not at some make-belief or wanna-remember-differently data.
But the drop this year continues. It's not catastrophic, but it's there and it IS noticeable. VERY noticeable.
Quote:and some people might have unsubbed some alts because of the eurocrisis. There was a much more panic-inducing crisis several years ago, and the effect was the exact opposite. EVE is cheap entertainment (1 month of gameplay for the price of a movie ticket), so when it's economic crunch time, MMOs should actually see a GROWTH in subscriber counts, not a dip.
Quote:Cause it is the same graph as the year before. You need better prescription glasses. It might be SOMEWHAT similar to last year's graph, but only because last year was a pretty shabby release year too - this year it's noticeably worse. Compared to the same graph of two, three, four and even more years ago, the difference is slap-to-the-face obvious. http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Contributor_name:Akita_T#Contributions_link_collection |
Aero Mercury
Republic Exploration And Defense Rock Ridge Alliance
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Posted - 2011.09.27 17:36:00 -
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Cedar Locus wrote:looking at the number of players on http://eve-offline.net/?server=tranquility it looks like eve is dying also with the wod thing.... It's kinda unsettling, so....am i missing something? some great stuff coming up? wtf (also, fix the ******* forum you fucktards. postings shouldnt dissapear....)
Sorry to bother, but what exactly shows that Eve is dying? The only thing I can see is a decrees the last three months. But that's probably because the vacation period is over and the school/wok period starts. |
Martyr Theos
The NecroMonger Faith
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Posted - 2011.09.27 18:20:00 -
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I am once again compelled to comment upon the ABSOLUTE ACCURACY, VERACITY, AND PENETRATING PERTINENCE of AKITA T's postings....
Sorry to interrupt, but there is a reason that Akita T has "Gravitas" in this forum... and it is due to the above.
Now carry on... "Eve is dying.. etc, etc ,etc. "
(P.S.: The antidote to "Eve is dying". is NOVA BOMBS.... see my other posts.) |
Vak'ran
TUIG Inc.
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Posted - 2011.09.27 18:28:00 -
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I'd be proper worried when the time comes that eve is NOT dying... Vak'Ran is your local unofficial non-dedicated part-time advocate of reading comprehension and proliferation of intelligence on the EVE Online Forums, offering advise and corrections of dubious quality since 2008. |
Lharanai
Empyrean Guard Seventh Vanguard
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Posted - 2011.09.27 18:48:00 -
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Eve will not die until there is a better (niche) option.
Lets face it, most of us (not all) are here because EVE is different from other MMOs and we will take a break but we will come back, admit it, how many unsubscribers actually discarded their chars :)
EVE will die the day there is a real competitor (FiS, Sandbox, harsh gameplay) for its niche OR it will die slowly by becoming WOW |
Roland Schlosser
THE EXOGEN CONSORTIUM
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Posted - 2011.09.27 19:23:00 -
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eve is not dying. as Akita T has said, eve's player is shrinking, but for varied reasons. Yes the drop is noticeable, but it is not pronounced enough to be of the crisis level needed to state OMG EVE IS DIEING EVERYBODY GTFO BEFORE IT ASPLODES!
There are always drops in player subscription rates, and as of yet there is no reason to believe there will not be a resurgence of players.
Akita, great posts.
Martyr Theos, go away little fanboi. |
Industrializer Tekitsu
Everlasting Forge Imperial Ascension
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Posted - 2011.09.27 20:26:00 -
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Look at EVE.
Now look at any other game.
Look at EVE again.
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in my opinion EVE is a particular MMO. Not because of its niche market, or its sandbox-ish character, but because the development behind it and CCP. Who would risk to launch a brand new FPS MMOBA (?) linked to a 8 years old game? Someone who's willing to keep such an old fart as up to date as EVE is. I don't dare to prophesy anything, I don't know how the market may move in a few years from now, but CCP's intention is Crystal clear. They want EVE to last fresh and updated even-though you/we're not always sharing their tempo/focus (which I for one do). |
Ralinastrife
Wormhole Exploration Crew Night Sky Alliance
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Posted - 2011.09.27 23:13:00 -
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will be a sad day when eve is no longer online...but i do believe with all the new mmorpgs coming out like SWTOR and GW2 and blade and soul the population might not grow that much....this is the only game where i feel the investment is totally worth it.....other games i hit max level and run raids then like..im bored...guess its time to make a new character...always something to do in this game |
Cipher Jones
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Posted - 2011.09.28 00:01:00 -
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Ralinastrife wrote:will be a sad day when eve is no longer online...but i do believe with all the new mmorpgs coming out like SWTOR and GW2 and blade and soul the population might not grow that much....this is the only game where i feel the investment is totally worth it.....other games i hit max level and run raids then like..im bored...guess its time to make a new character...always something to do in this game
GW II is well over 3 years late. Anyone that complains about CCP as a company and jumps ship for Arena Net is quite the fool.
I'm not here because EvE is a niche game, I'm here because Anet sucks. They killed GW and failed to develop GW2.
Ironically, as bad as people hate WoW, I feel Bliz is pretty damned good. But the game CCP produces is far superior to either, and CCP is right behind Blizzard IMHO anyway.
But then I guess that cancels the irony right out, since people hate CCP so ******* bad they pay 15 bucks a month to come to these forums and verbalize that.
What a crazy business the MMO industry is.
See what happens when fat neckbeards try to ride little ponies? The ponies die. |
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