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Aerodyne Collective.
Aerodyne Collective
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Posted - 2013.09.18 04:32:00 -
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Like many have already stated, Eve does not strive or desire to be as big or bigger than WOW. Its a niche game and niche games cater to a crowd looking for something different. Take FPS games for instance. Call of Duty and Battlefield constantly duke it out attempting to be the bigger better FPS. They are both different games in many ways, and both similar in many ways, and both have loyal followers. Than you have ARMA 2, and now ARMA 3. ARMA does not have nearly the player base that either COD of BF have, but for those of us who love the game it is a far better military game than either of the other 2 are. 64 player battles on maps that are in all actuality just as much a theme park as WOW is versus a military simulation style game that acts more like a sandbox. A military game where the playable map covers 250 square km of completely playable terrain and then some. I have been in some custom ARMA servers for player vs player operations with as many as 300 people. While not as significant as a large scale Eve fleet battle, it is quite significant for a FPS when you add in infantry, airborne drops, attack choppers, transport choppers, tanks, bradley's, A10's, actual artillery (called in and fired by players giving actual grid coordinates) etc.
I don't want Eve to be anything like WOW, and I actually still play WOW occasionally with my kids because they enjoy it and like to play it with dad. WOW is WOW and Eve is Eve, and as an adult gamer I much prefer the unforgiving nature of Eve. On a side note, my oldest is now 17 and started an Eve online account 3 months ago and "LOVES" Eve. He has watched me play Eve over the years and decided he wanted in on it, and there is absolutely no looking back. Like me he still plays WOW with his brothers, but I routinely find him on his lap top on a school night at like 2 in the morning playing Eve instead of sleeping. He has caught the Eve bug, has joined my corp etc, and has even made a couple of kills in low sec PvP all on his own with no back up.
If a modern era gamer like my 17 year old can find his way to a real game like Eve, adapt to it, learn to love it, and thrive in it, than why should we as a community or CCP as a company strive to reach WOW like proportions. There will always be those who want a WOW like theme-park ride and they can have it, but there will always be those of us looking for something different; even in our younger generation. |