EVE Search - Eve Online vs. World of Warcraft

Maldiro Selkurk wrote:

1. In terms of quality, Wow beats EVE into the dirt, no comparison here (the reason is that Blizzard is a financial powerhouse and this allowed them to spend like crazy on wow, whereas, EVE gimps along not even covering broken core game mechanic costs because the player base is so small).

2. in terms of pvp, you will have to get used to a much faster rate of game play, you can get away without hotkey usage in EVE because it plays so slowly but if you want to even remotely be competitive in wow pvp you better have 20 fingers and 50 hotkeys or you're dead before you even start.

3. You will probably learn to prefer the leveling model to the Skill point model if you play a lot since you can level up to max level in days rather than years.

4. i suggest a pvp server if you do play it is more like EVE in that you can be killed almost anywhere.

5. you will miss PLEX if you pay for your account this way, there is no game legal way to do this in wow.

6. the pvp between EVE and Wow follows a similar model, so much so that you can almost equate some ships in eve with classes in wow.

7. If you like the intrigue of EVE, you will miss that as wow really doesnt have anything like it.

8. You will find that the average wow forum poster is more flexible, intelligent and articulate than the idiot lot that tends to post in EVEs forums, i was absolutely stunned by this when i first started reading and posting on the EVE forums.

9. Blizzard does a much better job of balancing the needs of all of its player base than EVE does. Eve tends to strongly favor huge alliances and it seems they intend to push the game even further that direction in the future.

10. As to economies: Wow has a much better auction house, the only thing about EVE's market that i prefer is that you cannot flood the market with as many things as you like unless you start making alts to do so because of the skills that limit how many active orders you can have in EVE; whereas, in Wow you can place as many as you want.

Also, you mention burdensome restrictions on transferring assets around the various wow realms, yes this is an issue and comes with both real money costs as well as game money limits. You can beat a lot of this issue by transferring assets instead of game currency. Also, wow has a currency limit per account but again using assets you can bypass the so called 'gold cap'.

11. About the subscription differences: EVE is more hostile and this turns off a lot of players, EVE also is harder to learn how to play, mostly because the EVE dev team is inept. The EVE UI feels like it is 20 years old and this may turn off players used to more modern gaming UI's.

The EVE universe is mostly the same solar system copy and pasted 1000 times; whereas, WOW has richly unique gaming environments. All MMOs have ongoing balance issues to deal with but EVE suffers from broken core game mechanics, the only issue that WOW has that is even remotely similar is its ongoing difficulty balancing the needs of pvp vs pve game play.

12. As to EVE 'thriving' it isnt. EVE has all the parts to make a game that would attract millions regardless of its cutthroat nature but the game is so poorly managed that it doesnt have the real world currency to enrich either its pve or pvp game playing aspects, both suffer from lack of capital to even cover their basic upkeep let alone enrich either of them to any significant degree. Hence EVE "expansions" that are smaller than most 'patches' to WOW.