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Avon
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Posted - 2006.06.01 17:24:00 -
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I'm a serial beta tester.
I applied and was accepted to beta Eve-Online.
I was shocked how awful it was. Slow, under-developed, and more exception windows than you care to imagine.
It was still in that state the day before it went live ... so I thought I'd go retail with it to see how long it lasted, and how long it would take to make it playable.
To be fair, the release client was much better than the final beta, and so I decided to play through my first 30 days of game time, planning to quit after that...
The Battleships is not and should not be a solo pwnmobile - Oveur |
LekkerDingAh
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Posted - 2006.06.01 17:33:00 -
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Because of all the free beer.
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Jason Kildaro
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Posted - 2006.06.01 17:42:00 -
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I was reading an issue of Computer Gamer and in the centerfold was a picture of Eve. When I read the caption that it was an MMO, I had my doubts. I never played an MMO before and the thought of a monthly fee on a game discouraged me. But then I went to the website I knew I had to play.
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WaelCyrge
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Posted - 2006.06.02 11:54:00 -
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I was just wondering if I was the only one goofy enough, not to have heard about it before . Do you have friends that play Eve as well? I guess I'm the only one in my close group of friends.
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Sean Dillon
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Posted - 2006.06.02 12:01:00 -
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I played vendetta-online before starting playing eve online, I knew about this game but thought it sucked because you couldn't manually fly your space ship.
But then again vendetta-online has so few players (rarely more then 30 online) that I decided to give this game a try, and well it was good .
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Jagaroth
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Posted - 2006.06.02 12:31:00 -
[66]
 Originally by: Jenny Spitfire
Profound comment
 I was made aware of it it by this person (and one other) from my WC3 clan running off to play another game...
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Lo3d3R
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Posted - 2006.06.02 13:23:00 -
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After 4 1/2 years of playing Unreal Tournament for 7 days a week 8 hours a day I think I deserved a brake and gently transfered to the relaxation pool called EVE.
Although the fragger in me is still allive  .
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Eris Discordia
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Posted - 2006.06.02 13:34:00 -
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Eve got to me when I realised you could start to pvp in a week and be effective in it too.
Be afraid of the merlin , very afraid
Also a friend linked me to the site and I thought the graphics were very pretty, I miss the beta chat balloons 
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Kalazar
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Posted - 2006.06.02 13:34:00 -
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My friend held me at knife-point until I agreed to play. I played WoW at the time, was getting seriously irritated cos I wanted PvP and was playing on a PvE server (Cos it was the server all my friends were on). Then I played Eve and realised that WoW didn't even have PvP on it's PvP servers... <3 EVE :D
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Grandeur
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Posted - 2006.06.02 13:36:00 -
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A friend of mine had been playing the beta in the beginnning of '03, and one day around June began to chat me up about EVE. Eventually I relented and purchased the game. I started up my first toon and was handed all sorts of skills and 500k ISK to get me started. Two weeks later I started a new toon (this one), and that was that. Fast forward three years later and here I am.
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Dalaq
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Posted - 2006.06.02 13:40:00 -
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Think it was PC Zone UK that had a feature on it while it was in beta. Bought it as soon as it was released.
Flushed my first char though after concluding he just wasn't what I wanted.
Dipped in and out of Eve ever since, pretty much hooked for life I think.
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Assmodean
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Posted - 2006.06.02 14:16:00 -
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I haven't been playing for long at all yet, but so far i'm all hooked!
played WoW very much before but got soo sick of the pvpsystem (read lack of) can u belive that u get punished for attacking the other faction's cities?
well, nuthin like that here! and i love it.
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ApollyN
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Posted - 2006.06.02 14:34:00 -
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I had been playing DAoC and EQ before that and was quickly getting bored of the level grind and the slow progress and then I saw this awesome looking game as I flicked through PC Gamer. I read the review and it all seemed so open ended, so different and so fun...no levels, do whatever you want and the whole universe is influenced by players...awesome!
Picked up the game, logged in and started playing. Few hours later I got chatting to this guy in a corp and then I was jumping 32 jumps to meet my new corpmates and my new frigate as a joining present!
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MrVilla
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Posted - 2006.06.02 14:44:00 -
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Some friends of mine was talking about eve. One of them was addicted and the other one was sick of hearing about it I guess....hehe. I got a little interessted in knowing what they talked about and have been on since :)
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Frobisher
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Posted - 2006.06.02 15:04:00 -
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PC Gamer in the UK here. Read about it and it sounded cool. Saw the game in a shop, bought it, sat it on the sideboard and left it there for 3 months
Noticed it one day, thought i really should give that a go and been hooked ever since. Not a week goes by I don't think about that 3 months lost training 
Hey, this is my reality ... and I don't remember inviting you |
Marc Vestabule
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Posted - 2006.06.02 15:06:00 -
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I loved paying Elite and three years ago bought Freelancer in the hope that this would be modern Elite but finished that game rather quickly. Eve was just out in retail and was suggested to me by friends. I immediately loved the game and have been playing ever since.
So adictive is this game that I was finally able to kick my Magic the Gathering habit (or cardboard ***** as it was know).
I do miss the pre-castor Scorpions which flew like cruisers (watch old Jocker Vids), or being able to activate mwd and boosters in warp - there is nothing like sailing past a gate camp, heart hammering, at 3000 m/s in a Mammoth. 
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Imperial Coercion
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Posted - 2006.06.02 15:10:00 -
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The year was 2003 and I was really bored, loved the Colony Wars games on the Ps and went to see if I could find anything similar.
Then I saw THIS
and its still in MINT
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Psym0n
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Posted - 2006.06.02 15:15:00 -
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Edited by: Psym0n on 02/06/2006 15:15:38
player the beta when i was 16.... enjoyed it but end of the day i was 16, had no credit card etc....
1 year later i had to play after i played a free trial, brought the game for about ú6 in a shop and got a month free,
result
then i borrowed my moms credit card lol, been paying her ú10.50 a month since.
now im nearly 20.... oh dear
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Sosus Red
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Posted - 2006.06.02 15:17:00 -
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Originally by: Mitchum DuFinn
I was outside my home Neriak which is hidden in a dark corner of the Nektulos forest. It was the celebration of my 83rd birthday. A group of young Necromancers and I were attempting to group our mana together to make a giant pyrotechnik display when one of us miscast or so I thought. As soon as the smoke cleared I realized I was no longer in Nektulos forest, I was sitting on the floor of a gigantic cave that was lined in some gold colored metal. After some confustion a kind person informed me that I was no longer on Antonica but now in a space station near the Amarrian homeworld. He sent me to a medical facility to get my skin changed from dark blue to a grey color and had my pointed ears bobbed. He then sent me off to a university to learn how to be a space ship pilot, no more raising the dead and bending them to my will. Now I fly amongst the stars smashing rats and pirates and bending their modules to my will.
Mitchum DuFinn
Pax Amarria bah,,, Innoruuk Rules.
Clever post... ;-)
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Ysolde Xen
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Posted - 2006.06.02 15:18:00 -
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Way back when EVE was in Castor, all I'd ever heard of MMOGs was Everquest and that really put me off. Then a couple of friends of mine kept telling me about this space-based one called EVE and how great it was, the background and races, the RP and cool ships. I even watched one of them play it a while and it seemed pretty complex and engaging.
Soooo I got myself a 1 week trial (this is after they got rid of 1 month trials for account abuse but before they extended it to 2 weeks), DLed it with a buddy code, tore my hair out trying to get the freakin' code to work and then discovered my monitor was too old and ****ty to support the minimum resolution EVE would run at. Immense frustration ensued as my trial time was ticking away and I hadn't been able to do anything more than load the splash screen. Luckily my patience was saved by a couple more friends (whom have since been ensnared into EVE themselves) with a spare monitor and I was finally able to play. This was in August 2004.
I'm still here and I've no intention of stopping
I'm also responsible for a whole heap of new players, most of whom signed up after the trials I put them on finished too, by showing them EVE in much the same way. Only it's twice as huge and complex now as it was when I started...
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Sola Sola
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Posted - 2006.06.02 15:23:00 -
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I was playing Star Wars Galaxies up until the NGE was released. I tried WoW but just couldn't get into the wizards and stuff. I then read a post on the SWG forums about EvE...looked into it...got hooked and here I am.
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Yual
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Posted - 2006.06.02 15:24:00 -
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Edited by: Yual on 02/06/2006 15:25:57
My fiance's best friends husband played, and I was getting... tired, of DAoC and the push to soloing/botting/PvE grind. Eve seemed like an ideal second mistress... err game... and it just looked SEXY on his huge hd tv.
Sig removed, killed by non uniform font letter sizing.
I LIKED Courier |
Sosus Red
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Posted - 2006.06.02 15:44:00 -
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Edited by: Sosus Red on 02/06/2006 15:50:08
Edited by: Sosus Red on 02/06/2006 15:47:15
yeah, kinda a long post, but heres my story...
I was in Fry's Electronics here in Las Vegas admiring the new store (if you've never been in a fry's, picture a super walmart sized electronics store) and I was browsing the PC games section. I saw EVE and looked at the box and thought "wow this looks beautiful." I love sci fi and had always wanted to play an MMO, but I never liked Wizards and the like. I took eve home and installed it and it wouldnt run. I was like M*&^&&^%^%. I called Simon shuster tech support, they were the publisher back then, and was told I needed a new vid card. THis was back when I knew very little about computers, now I work in a Datacenter ;). I was like what, you want me to spend $150 to play a $40 game your crazy, click. lol. After like a few hours I went looking for a new card. I had a problem though. At the time I had a low profile case and I had a hard time finding a new card. After about a week of looking, I went back to fry's and they had a low pro ati 9200. Bought it, went home and Sosus was born. Stardate 05/21/03.
I left for a few months here and there to try other games. SOmetimes its nice to be able to run around on planets and stuff too. Played SWG, EQ2 and Matrix Online, but always come back to EVE. Its just a great game.
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Mtthias Clemi
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Posted - 2006.06.02 16:08:00 -
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Free trail in UK PCG, saw my mate playing it decided to give it a go, like someone else said i woudlnt have carried on if it werent for the peeople i met, one person in particular! Thanks exel! you rock! 
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Idara
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Posted - 2006.06.02 16:51:00 -
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Originally by: Dark Shikari
I played in the beta.
The game sucked, to be honest. Or at least it was pretty mediocre.
I went back to Earth and Beyond.
A year and a half later, I came back. I never left again. 
Goddamn, agreeing with DS...
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Skarsnik
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Posted - 2006.06.02 17:02:00 -
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What can I say.. I heard of EVE the week of it's release and people were scrambling for it looking for the next MMO after UO and EQ. I eventually manged through my busy schedule to get it 4 days into release and have never looked back.
3 years, 4 accounts and still going strong 
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AWMCorp is Recruiting
EVE-Ink - An Tattoo Project Based on EVE-Online |
Ab Tallen
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Posted - 2006.06.02 17:04:00 -
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Kept true to the vow to myself to never, ever start playing in an MMORPG for quite some time. Well, except for a short dip into Anarchy Online when they made the basic game available for free.
Then, a few months ago, I stumbled over a thread with some good player stories about EVE Online in a games forum I'm frequenting, found out about the free trial, and couldn't resist subscribing.
Haven't looked at any other game since I started playing EVE, so it's probably even saving me some money in the end. 
Also have an old SciFi books and general role playing background (although I never found a group who would play Traveller), with the usual addiction to games that contain flying around in space ships (but never made it to Elite status in Elite)...
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Hermia
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Posted - 2006.06.02 17:10:00 -
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Edited by: Hermia on 02/06/2006 17:16:25
Bought the boxes of eve and E&B the same time, they both looked cool. Cant really remember where i saw eve, just internet gamming sites i think.
E&B got droped after a week, then picked up eve and made my character "Jayad" which i still use for combat, Hermia is my support/forum identity.
been here 3 years and all i can say is that we're already playing EVE2.
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Valea Silpha
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Posted - 2006.06.02 17:10:00 -
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Mates were playing it and so i tried it out. Loved it to bits, had a brush with genuine addiction, but unlike my other beloved substances, i can still play eve without getting locked into it full time.
<Hammerhead> TomB is doing the nerfing
<Hammerhead> I just stand behind him, look at his monitor and shake my head |
Karunel
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Posted - 2006.06.02 17:36:00 -
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Little corner of one of the last pages of a Spanish magazine had a little picture and some text. Checked it out, saw the video of the tristan and heard some tracks, loved it. Registered on the forums the 29 Dec' 2001 or something, the community kept me there and then the game wasn't too bad
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