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Lola
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Posted - 2003.08.03 22:05:00 -
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I found it when I was searching upcoming MMORPGs. I signed up for beta and so did a friend. I didn't make it in but he did and gave me his account because he thought the game kinda sucked. He started right before a player wipe and there wasn't a tutorial at the time but I still feel he didn't give it a chance. I personally loved it from the start. I stopped even reading about SWG once I started playing EVE.
How did you get hooked?
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Halo Jones
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Posted - 2003.08.03 22:08:00 -
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same, played beta
still do in fact
launch will be this month aparently, so i am lookign forward to the storyline
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Jolo
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Posted - 2003.08.03 22:08:00 -
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Last year I was searching for a new space fix. I had been missing my Wing Commander and Privateer and such, and needed a new space game. I was doing stuff on dreamcast and other platforms but wasn't satified, I wanted some depth.
Stumbled on this and signed up for beta and got in. I enjoyed it and stayed. Basically I just did google searches for space+game and other keywords. A few other games poped up, but they never paned out. BTW, i'm a big Homeworld fan.
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cold lazarus
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Posted - 2003.08.03 22:15:00 -
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I heard about it from a friend 2 days b4 launch podded on my first day by a gate rat ant seen the family since then 
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Jarjar
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Posted - 2003.08.03 22:18:00 -
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A friend (Erty) told me about it, so I got into late beta (1 week left or so), I liked it alot so I bought the game. 
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Erty
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Posted - 2003.08.03 22:35:00 -
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Edited by: Erty on 03/08/2003 22:35:51
Well I first read about it in PC Gamer (the swedish one) 2001. Then I read another preview 2002 and I was thinking "this is the right game for me!". But after a while I kinda forgot about it.
But late february 2003 my friend got in. He shouted at me on irc and I went crazy :D
It took his account before he even had a chance to even create a character :P
And the game was everything I had dreamed of ;)
Then when Phase 7 started I got in myself, and I played in beta for two months. When I heard that the release in Sweden would be pushed on I went to London and bought it (:P) even before the retail servers had started :)
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Joshua Calvert
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Posted - 2003.08.03 22:38:00 -
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I wandered into GAME looking for a new PC game.
Was looking for something in space, saw this, and here we are.
LEEEEERRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY! |
Zaphod Robotnik
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Posted - 2003.08.03 23:47:00 -
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For my part, I was currently playing Earth and Beyond and a few of my Guildmates mentioned EVE over there.
Reports were the beta was horribly buggy but I came over, liked what I saw and signed up for the beta
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Zaphod "Zaprobo" Robotnik
President, Royal Communication Department
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Indaek
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Posted - 2003.08.03 23:55:00 -
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I was bored and looking for a different game, so i looked on amazon and ranked like 20 something there it was. Read a little went to wal-mart and bought it.
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StealthNet
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Posted - 2003.08.04 00:22:00 -
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A friend sent to a list a link to a beta review. Then I got into beta.
I hope someone at CCP look this thread. almost everybody here was a beta tester.
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Ruulex DeMors
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Posted - 2003.08.04 01:08:00 -
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I signed up for beta after reading the backstory of EVE. Got into beta only to find out that my Video card was unsupported. Then picked up EVE after I got a supported card
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Lola
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Posted - 2003.08.04 01:13:00 -
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I signed up for beta after reading the backstory of EVE.
Oh man... the backstory is really what got me hooked. Especially this techy article on FTL communication.
http://www.eve-online.com/background/communication/
The concept art is really cool too though. These pen rendering from 3 years ago are great.
http://www.eve-online.com/conceptart/29082000/
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Takumi Vetinari
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Posted - 2003.08.04 02:02:00 -
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I spent about 6 months in a similar MMO space game called Jumpgate (pilot name SuperStoo - made Opti, for those who know it). It started to get very stale though, especially with a slightly botched Big Patch which was to adds Loads Of Good Content.
Someone mentioned the EVE beta. Signed up, had a quick blast, been here ever since.
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Takumi Vetinari, Founder
PIE Inc
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Shauna
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Posted - 2003.08.04 02:40:00 -
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I was looking around for games in the space trading genre and happened across Eve. Applied to the beta, and a short 4 or 5 months later I got in near the end of phase 3 :D |
Quantum Matrix
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Posted - 2003.08.04 02:57:00 -
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I loved Privateer, it was one of my favorite games. I had thought for a long time that if someone could make a massively multiplayer online version, it would rock. Then a friend pointed me to the eve website, and I signed up for beta and got in. Been hooked ever since.
-QM
What do we want?
Brains!
When do we want them?
Brains! |
Nootami
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Posted - 2003.08.04 04:06:00 -
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I saw it on a beta list.
Originally by: Cortex Reaver
[22:39:59] [Oi]Nootami1 joined channel
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Oh,look! Someone joined for a whopping .3 seconds!
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Vlad Damian
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Posted - 2003.08.04 04:22:00 -
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I too was playing Earth and Beyond when I overheard some guild mates talking about it. I went to checkout the website... EVE made E&B look like a child's cartoon show 
Signed up for Beta and the rest is history 
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Valrandir
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Posted - 2003.08.04 06:27:00 -
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I was waiting for Final Fantasy XI US release since 1999. I read about EVE in a FFXI forums, and when I saw that I was not accepted as a beta tester for FFXI, I bought EVE.
Now I am really into it and I am planning to play EVE for the years to come.
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la'Rei
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Posted - 2003.08.04 06:45:00 -
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How I discovered EVE... well back in my youth... I was flying my Bowing 9335623 Industrial class ship. and All of a sudden a Giant space anomoly opend up about 382,629km away. I was quite frankly amazed. As the spacial anomoly was forming my Bowing 933523 was starting to get towed into it... and well... I had to jettision my cargo of 5,000,000 Lockheed Martin NovaStar Titan class ship blueprints. Otherwise I would have gotten sucked into it... and well... finally I got outta it's formation radious and I survived luckily. On the down-side I lost everything into the wormhole that was formed! So, With every isk I had left I made people reserach it! Research on it so much! Finally we made it passable, so that one could pass to the other side! I was so intent on finding my blueprints! I sent millions of people onto the other side of the gate, wich we named EVE, because well... the vast value over there... 90% human isks were just jettisoned and went into the other side... so in the new EVE, we tryed to find them. A few hundered years after I was over there, I was in my Titan class ship, when the gate collapsed, and killed everyone within that system. Luckily we had scanned that system extremely well. So we knew they werent there! That's ALL that mattered They werent destroyed...
Then over the next 500 years I decided they were probibally destroyed in the wormhole. and that now me and 99.99% of humanity was stuck on this side of no-where.
After that, I became a greifer. I killed people for fun, because well.. the people failed me! they couldnt find my most prized possesions!!! THEY NEED TO DIE!
-Rei
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Erai
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Posted - 2003.08.04 07:20:00 -
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I found a link to the Eve-onlinesite in a topic in an "Elite" fanforum, about a year ago, and became enchanted by the pretty pictures and the relaxed community.
And the thrill of the anticipation, of course- Eve, after all, was to be the greatest thing that could happen to the mmorpg genre.
Heheh... ah well, it is still a fun game
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MrPops
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Posted - 2003.08.04 08:04:00 -
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I found EVE while playing E&B. On my search for a better space game and an online game that was not a hack and slash leveling fest. I joined during BETA 3 and I have been hooked ever since.
"The human species suffers from a dimensional limitation. They are not able to understand that matter and mind are just one aspect of something more fundamental. We must strive to expand our perspective so we can see what our true reality is."
Deep toughts by Mr.Pops, while consuming large quantities of Blue Pill and staring at the EVE gate in Genesis.
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Saladin
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Posted - 2003.08.04 10:35:00 -
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Saw it on the shelf at Best Buy. Picked up the box and checked it out. Decided to buy it.
I had been accepted in SWG Beta about a week earlier. After I got EVE I completely forgot about SWG.
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Koinski
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Posted - 2003.08.04 10:46:00 -
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The first time i heard of Eve was maybe 2 years ago, very early beta maybe, in the Forums of another space MMOG, Jumpgate (never made Optimus, though).
Later i subscribed to beta, and eventually entered in the final 3 weeks or so.
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Neolesphares
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Posted - 2003.08.08 21:14:00 -
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Read in a magazine about it
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Your Small Ion Blaster 1 lightly strikes Serelas [TRH], wrecking for 2546.5 damage. |
Valeria
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Posted - 2003.08.08 21:18:00 -
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I think I read an article in Swedish PC-Gamer, then proceeded to look at the website, screenshots, listen to the music etc.
Signed up for beta, got in at phase 2.
Your 425mm Prototype I Gauss Gun perfectly strikes some nublar, wrecking for 1155.0 damage. |
5Rings
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Posted - 2003.08.08 21:35:00 -
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Several disgruntled Jumpgate players, with no other game to go to, were talking up how much better EVE would be (this was at a time before beta even opened, I believe). So after EVE went retail, I decided to give it a try. |
FoxDown
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Posted - 2003.08.08 21:38:00 -
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A friend brought it over and showed it to me. When I saw the market and how cool it looked when you warped I was hooked and went out and bought it the next day.
You know one of the things that really got me? The FONT for warp drive active and the AUs to go and stuff looked SO nice, along with the warp effect. Just showed a lot of class and attention to detail.
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Callas
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Posted - 2003.08.08 21:39:00 -
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Quote:
How did you get hooked?
Well, the topic is how did you find Eve, not how did you get hooked.
I found Eve because I was in a CS clan and a clan member found out about the Eve beta, when we were all considering moving on from CS.
I signed up, got in with beta 6. One or two other clan mates got in, but they didn't like it - "nothing to do".
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Callas
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Gravedancer
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Posted - 2003.08.08 21:42:00 -
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I read something about it in a mag or a website in late 2001, and ended up on the EVE-Online website. Just from reading the background and other provided info, and what I was able to glean from the old forums, I was hooked. Applied for beta, didnt get in right away. To avoid the suicidal urges when I didnt get in, I started looking for other similar games. That search brought me to Earth and Beyond. Signed up for beta of that, got in, figured Id play till I got in EVE beta. EnB went gold, and still wasnt in EVE, so I bought EnB and played it till I finally got in EVE beta early this year. Stopped playing EnB as soon as I got into beta, and sold my account after EVE went gold. I still vaguely remember what my wife and kids look like, but my wife has now started playing eve in the past few days so it should be easier to remember <G>.
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PornStarr
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Posted - 2003.08.08 21:50:00 -
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Was shopping at Walmart, looked at the new games in the games section. Saw EvE. Picked up box and read descriptions. Got intrigued and wanted to play it. Look up at camera, move towards shelf in corner. Rip, Tear, insert CD Case into pocket. Only to realize later its Pay-to-Play. So in the end I still had to pay money. |
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