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WaelCyrge
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Posted - 2006.06.01 12:00:00 -
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I was wondering, when I started playing Eve I had never heard about it before. My friend had been hooked from the beginning and he send me a trial through the buddy program... and now IÆm hooked!  How was it for you guys, why did you start playing Eve?
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Jenny Spitfire
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Posted - 2006.06.01 12:01:00 -
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RecruitMe@NOINT!
 Originally by: Jenny Spitfire
EvE is ecstatically malevolent.
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Sandra Tseng
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Posted - 2006.06.01 12:02:00 -
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BETA ;]
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Raven Aure
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Posted - 2006.06.01 12:07:00 -
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A friend of mine had started playing EVE and eventually got me to try it. I ended up moving up the ranks of the corp he and another friend ran and now he's left EVE altogether, the other friend has left the corp and I'm the CEO!
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106 days and still a hijack virgin...
Cherry popped!  ~kieron
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Novarei
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Posted - 2006.06.01 12:08:00 -
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Quote:
Why EvE?
Why not?
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svetlana
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Posted - 2006.06.01 12:23:00 -
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i remember some posts like this a year ago, it was interesting to hear that a majority of the early american players heard about the game from friends or searches on the internet. in north america at least there was very little (if any) noticeable advertising.
myself i don't think i would have never heard of this game, except 3 years ago i was at work and walked over to a co-worker to ask a tech question. he was sneakily running eve on a laptop next to his work computer.
he began to answer my question, but then i cut him off in mid sentence ... "WHAT THE HECK IS THAT!?! OMG IT LOOKS INCREDIBLE!"
he showed me a bit of the game then opened the map, my jaw hit the floor when i saw him orbit around 5000 star systems. that was it, i was hooked from that moment on.
i left work early, picked up a few copies of the game, keep coming back;)
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Epictetus
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Posted - 2006.06.01 12:34:00 -
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mmorpg.com
i wanted to find a cool online game to play after burning out on ATITD and eve sounded the most promising.
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Sharkbait
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Posted - 2006.06.01 12:38:00 -
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i started playing about 4 years ago or so. i was looking through a disc from pcgamer and i found this video of eve, so decided to signup for beta as the video reminded me of elite frontier 2 soo much.
hmm, never thought i would end up working for ccp back then 
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Dak Hakin
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Posted - 2006.06.01 12:40:00 -
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Found them on mmorpg.com
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I am the devil, and I'm here to do the devils work.
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Jim McGregor
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Posted - 2006.06.01 12:41:00 -
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Pvp in space. Sold! 
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Dark Shikari
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Posted - 2006.06.01 12:43:00 -
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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. 
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Cryptic Myst
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Posted - 2006.06.01 12:43:00 -
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Everytime I pick up a gamin mag in the US, seems like the cover is always WoW stuff. Course, WoW is a US game created in the US, Eve is not. If not for advertising, which is how I heard of eve plus the free trial, I still would not know about it. Personally I think the magazines are biased of only covering popular US games, not much else, altough I couldnt tell you why. |
TricksR4Cats
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Posted - 2006.06.01 12:44:00 -
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I'd seen in advertised a bit ... I knew "of" an Eve Online, I just didn't know what it was. One of those mmmog things.
I was playing Freelancer and was going around in a group with 2 people i met there and got chatting. I was whinging about how the market system there doesn't change, and that after you reach level 34 you've done everything - got every ship, been to the monkey world, been to the robot world, killed the nomads and been a pirate or a hunter, and frankly, there's nothing left to do. They said I might like Eve online.
I play www.ogame.org and I visit www.ogametips.com, and it has an advert for Eve online. I remembered that and signed up via it.
That was last novemeber \o/
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Melkor Bloodaxe
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Posted - 2006.06.01 12:45:00 -
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I was looking for a cool MMO to play. Went to mmorpg.com looked at some descriptions of different games and decided EVE was the one that suited my wishes best. And here I am now, for quite a long time.
And man, am I glad I decided to go for EVE instead of any hack/slash game like WoW or Guild Wars 
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Kalaan Oratay
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Posted - 2006.06.01 12:45:00 -
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I was surfing the net one time and I noticed a banner on mmorpg.com I think. Next thing you know I'm subscribed and mining veldspar in an ibis...
Teaches me to surf the net without my tinfoil hat... thats how they getcha 
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keepiru
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Posted - 2006.06.01 12:45:00 -
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cant remember how i 1st heard of eve - it was around the time of the beta. i still have the mails from ccp from when i applied for it... then i kind of left the 'net for 2 years ¼____¼
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Sarmaul
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Posted - 2006.06.01 12:46:00 -
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The free trial PC gamer did at the start of last year. Truth be told, I probably wouldn't have signed up if it wasn't for the excellent corp I got recruited into - I still play with most of it's members now I'm in RKK as we stick together like glue :).
Originally by: General Apocalypse
the game is very well balanced
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Great Eagle
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Posted - 2006.06.01 12:46:00 -
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I heard about while playing Earth & beyond when some of my group members there left to go play EVE in beta, when E&B closed down I tock a while off gaming untill one day walking through Best Buy I see EVE there for like $5 and rembered I heard about it so picked It up and been playing ever sence.
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Gariuys
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Posted - 2006.06.01 12:49:00 -
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www.scifi-meshes.com saw someone ran a thread there about a eve model. That's how I learned about it, but didn't feel like doing the beta, so went to play E&B, got bored there afterwhile and joined EVE a couple of months after release. Hooked ever since ( as much as real life allows it anyway )
~{When evil and strange get together anything is possible}~
A tool is only useless when you don't know how to use it. - ActiveX
The grass is always greener on the other side. - JoCool |
Anatoray
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Posted - 2006.06.01 12:49:00 -
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I was told the words "14 day free trial" and it was all downhill from there.
I'd heard about EvE a little from various forums I browse through, but up until recently, paying monthly for a game was just not an option.
Now it is, and my credit card loves me.
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Franky B
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Posted - 2006.06.01 12:52:00 -
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I wanted a game where I could have a navy that I could name [HE-MEN] His Eminence's Masculine Eunuch Navy, and then create a special forces division called [HYMEN] Honorable Yes-Men of the Eunuch Navy.
needless to say, i got sidetracked by all the pretty things in cistuvaert.
but one day yet...
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Aodha Khan
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Posted - 2006.06.01 12:54:00 -
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Edited by: Aodha Khan on 01/06/2006 12:55:03
I started playing Eve in the beta. The reason was that my previous MMORPG, Ultima Online, had decided to seperate the combat from the industry people which ruined the game environment turning it into 'multi-player' game rather than a 'virtual world'.
Eve held true to the original UO vision and to this day there really are no MMORPG to compare and provide the 'sandbox' that I require.
So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong and to strike at what is weak. |
Roshan longshot
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Posted - 2006.06.01 12:55:00 -
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Every Tuesday I go through Wal-Marts electronic section...look at the new games and seen Eve-online.
"Not another online game I said...never."
Then read what was on the box....(hint look at the sig)
And been here for three years....
Free-form Professions, ensure no limetations on professions. Be a trader, fighter, industialist, researcher, hunter pirate or mixture of them all.
[i]As read from the original box.
We are not ebil forum police, for one thing I don't have a hat :( - Cortes |
tolkenmoon
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Posted - 2006.06.01 12:56:00 -
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Used to play earth and beyond and had heard a few few people mention eve, after earth and beyond closed i needed something else to play and rememberd eve.
I cant stand all the wizard and warlock stuff give me a space ship and guns any day, there wasnt that much around when i tried eve to do with space this was the first one i tried and have been hooked ever since. |
Kuolematon
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Posted - 2006.06.01 12:58:00 -
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Found out in some beta program, signed up for beta. Got accepted .. didn't enjoy so much .. and first got in around 2003/10 .. then played 3 month and left for until 2004/09 came back again.
Unnerf Amarr!
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HippoKing
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Posted - 2006.06.01 13:02:00 -
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got a trial with a PCG, though i'd give it a try
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Rick Dentill
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Posted - 2006.06.01 13:13:00 -
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I was thinking I wanted to try MMPORGs and wanted to do something other than fantasy. EVE was the only one around since E&B was closed down. Spent along time trying to get my head around things, all the different stats in the item database seemed overwhelming, and that was before even playing!
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Elfman
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Posted - 2006.06.01 13:18:00 -
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Edited by: Elfman on 01/06/2006 13:19:45
heard about it in the jumpgate forum and though lets give it a go.
left after 2 years and had a small break but back now.
really wish i hadnt left but R/L has a nasty habit of bighting you in the butt when you least expect it.
sheesh talk about misssed skill training time :)
Ooh and since i used to play Elite on the BBC and been looking for a mmorpg that was similar to elite (which I was hooked on for till the last version where else)
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Wattish
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Posted - 2006.06.01 13:25:00 -
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I came for the lasers, but i stayed for the fofofo.
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Moss Pharmacy
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Posted - 2006.06.01 13:25:00 -
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Originally by: HippoKing
got a trial with a PCG, though i'd give it a try
Same. they had a 6-page article on Eve and i almost crapped myself reading it it looked so amazing. got free trial. used free trial. waited a week, came back
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Retromash
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Posted - 2006.06.01 13:27:00 -
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Well, I used to play Earth & Beyond because I've always enjoyed Science Fiction. Limited options, I suppose.
PMS - It's not just for THAT time of the month.
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Fi T'Zeh
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Posted - 2006.06.01 13:30:00 -
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I was looking for something to do after Jumpgate become old. And the EvE beta was pointed out to me by some other HW dudes. The rest as they say, is history.
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POST WITH YOUR MAIN !!!!11111one
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Nira Li
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Posted - 2006.06.01 13:38:00 -
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Space > Wizards
You Will Cry My Name
Funny Guys
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DeadRow
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Posted - 2006.06.01 13:50:00 -
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I remember seeing the box in GAME for ú5, that was almsot 2 years ago, i remember reading the manual before signing up and thinking COOL! little did i know the manual was a little out of date
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Crumplecorn
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Posted - 2006.06.01 14:00:00 -
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I heard from a friend that Eve was 'FTW' so to speak, especially graphically. A post in here reminded me, it may well have been a banner in ogame that spurred me to try it when I finally got broadband.
And of course I fell in love with it straight away. Was down home for two weeks to spend christmas with the family, spent the whole time playing Eve
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Mitchum DuFinn
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Posted - 2006.06.01 14:03:00 -
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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.
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Angelica Krem
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Posted - 2006.06.01 14:10:00 -
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Live in iceland and heard about the Beta, started playing shortly there after. Almost 4 years since I downloaded my first eve client.
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Henry Fredyericus
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Posted - 2006.06.01 14:10:00 -
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...before EVE I was playing Ultima Online since 1998. Then one day saw someone's "goodbye" letter at Stratics UO forums, saying the fellow leaving to EVE online. That time tought what the heck....this is the third "goodbye" letter and each time it's EVE online. So wondered by myself, what if I go and check out a bit about this so called EVE online and what's the reasons behind it.
Well, the rest of the story is that the 7 year UO veteran were kindapped from UO by EVE aliens 
Haven't really regretted leaving UO...EVE Rulez so much
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Kiell Amor
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Posted - 2006.06.01 14:13:00 -
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Three words.... EVE Never Fades
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Liger Li
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Posted - 2006.06.01 14:17:00 -
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I discovered EVE (on mmorpg.com) right before WoW came out. Played it, loved it, despite being mostly a fantasy geek. Then got sucked in by the WoW behemoth.
I quit the WoW grindfest around Christmas and, after reading a couple space operas, decided to join EVE again and reroll. I'm having lots of fun, and will probably stay for a good while.
Join channel: "Eve University" or read here |
Mr Vapor
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Posted - 2006.06.01 14:20:00 -
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I was tired of being held captive on Amarr by those slaving pig dogs. So I opted for pod pilot training and got the surgery done. Now I've learned about the whole universe and things like fedo dung and underage Gallente girls. I've never been happier.
Hmmm, I think I'm gonna turn off the computer for a day or two now. I keep thinking that some show called "American Idol" is supposed to come on the neo com soon. I mean, this is the real world. You have to watch your back and have a good tank.
Where are my pills?
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Znaei
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Posted - 2006.06.01 14:23:00 -
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I was working at a hotel in Reykjavik, CCP had some sort of a meeting with investors about 6 months before Eve was launched. They brought a video clip of Eve's graphics and forgot to remove it from the computer. I kinda "stumbled" on it and decided that would be the game for me
Inappropriate sig content - and where did you find my pic? - Cathath ([email protected]) |
Rashmika Clavain
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Posted - 2006.06.01 14:28:00 -
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Originally by: Nira Li
Space > Wizards with annoying American accents
fixed!
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GouldFish
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Posted - 2006.06.01 14:28:00 -
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Played the beta enjoyed it but did not have the money to play it as soon as it came out. Then restarted again about 3+ years ago.
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Ishquar Teh'Sainte
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Posted - 2006.06.01 14:56:00 -
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a few weeks before i started playing eve i had a chitchat with a buddy regarding computergames (sad part was - it was at a concert  ) ...
well i dreamt of a homeworld style MMO - where you have your fleetcommanders and your combat pilots - big fleets and empires ... and you can crush your enemy by destroying his ships and stuff ... then my buddy told me that there was EVE online - he tested it and didn't like it, but because there are spaceships and stuff he thought i might try the trial ... well ... 6 month later i'm still here 
<3 EVE 
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Sadayiel
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Posted - 2006.06.01 15:00:00 -
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i was playing EQ peacefully with some friends in a ciber-cofee when suddenly one told me about a space baed mmorpg comming out, he tried to do a basis along much other ppl for the 1st EVE webpage in spanish, and also told me to log as a beta tester.
After a couple of weeks i forgot the issue until 3 years later when another friend show me up EVE trial. i made an account and here i am ^_^
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Clyde Sdale
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Posted - 2006.06.01 15:02:00 -
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I played Earth & Beyond since early beta, that was a fun game...
After EA had moved all the Devs to California, the game began slowing in content and storyline. One day I was reading MMORPG.com and saw an article for EVE beta. I signed up, and was accepted.
My first day in EVE, I spent trying to undock without being killed by station campers, in high sec. Well, 6 times in around 1.5 hours cured me of wanting to try playing any further, so I quit and went back to E&B.
Several months later after EA announced sunset on E&B, I decided to try EVE again. Been here ever since.
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Elve Sorrow
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Posted - 2006.06.01 15:17:00 -
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Hmm.
I used to play a Browser-based game called Planetarion. When the rumours started floating around that it would become P2P (Pay to Play) i went looking for a different game. EVE. I just floated around the forums for a while, while still playing Planetarion aswell. Then i got my beta invitation. Beta 2, if im correct. Yay for minors signing NDAs.
So yea, i've been with EVE 5 years this summer. Playing slightly shorter though, because it was a pain to get invited into Beta. 
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Zellin Dalimar
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Posted - 2006.06.01 15:17:00 -
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I played some back in beta. I'm not sure I ever even left a station; I was just overwhelmed and confused about it.
Recently got a new pc (finally) and was looking for something to play and noticed a "Eve Trail" banner at one of my game sites and they had a thread about Eve. Sounded good so I checked it out.
Loved the training off-line stuff (got so sick of chasing the carrot in Asheron's Call...not playing enough or "right" to keep up with friends).
I think I'm hooked, but the jury is still out. Hopefully I'll be in a Corp soon and I'll give it another 6 weeks or so.
-Zel
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Herio Mortis
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Posted - 2006.06.01 15:18:00 -
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Friend of mine has been playing since the beta days, I used to ridicule him about it :)
Then I read an article about Istvaan Shugatsus little raid and decided that a game where such things are allowed is a game I can enjoy as well. Dislike handholding and PVE-only kind of stuff and where is the fun if it doesn't hurt to die?
I'll be here for the long run.
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Kanibal
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Posted - 2006.06.01 15:37:00 -
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Originally by: Sharkbait
i started playing about 4 years ago or so. i was looking through a disc from pcgamer and i found this video of eve, so decided to signup for beta as the video reminded me of elite frontier 2 soo much.
Imho that vid is still the best trailer for EVE ever, I'd love if some newer trailers had this kind of narration 
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Xelios
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Posted - 2006.06.01 15:57:00 -
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I stumbled across the narrated video of the pirate and immediately signed up for the beta, was accepted about a week later and have been here ever since.
I think videos are one of the most effective ways to advertise a game, screenshots just don't do most games justice. That's one of the reasons I like making my own vids, just my way of giving a little something back to the company that's kept me entertained for the last 3.5 years =)
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Haloskeeter
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Posted - 2006.06.01 16:00:00 -
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What's EVE?
In all seriousness, a good friend from SWG was like, holy hell, this game rules. So I made the leap the first time, found the game fun but I was having fun with SWG, so I ditched eve and went back to SWG. Just recently, Tim from CAD had a gameday for eve, decided to come back.. New character though, might re-open my old account to use as an alt.
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Rana Ash
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Posted - 2006.06.01 16:14:00 -
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I heard whispers about an MMO called EVE, but since i did'nt have a good enough computor back then. I just shrugged and drooled over the box in the store, waild when i found the website about the game and saw the graphics.
I put it out of my mind until the day a windfall made it possible to get a new puter, i got it and decided to just stay the 14 days.
That was about 2 years ago
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Rellik B00n
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Posted - 2006.06.01 16:16:00 -
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Didnt have the time to be an uber FPS-er anymore.
Which is ironic cause im on EVE 8 hours a day.
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blacknight9
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Posted - 2006.06.01 16:16:00 -
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I've discovered Eve after reading a review on a site. There, it mentioned that the game has great potential but lacks in publicity (nobody wants a hord of players coming into Eve--> that will just make Eve server crash so now i understand the reasons into slowly growing).
After reading the review i went to see the images and i was astonished as how beautifull the game screen looked. I'm a sci-fi reader like most of the users in Eve. This is the ultimate sci-fi dream. Just imagine when u were viewing Star Trek that u can be Picard with the famous quote: space the final frontier.
And after viewing the images i went and downloaded Eve Never Fades(now that's a cool video). And i got hooked. 4 months and i'm wanting even more. It's addictive as hell.
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Adoro
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Posted - 2006.06.01 16:20:00 -
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I went to my first Lan Party ever and the guy who was organising it had EVE running on his PC. I was like...what is that? Is that your desktop? He responded "no...no, here ill give you a trial and you check it out yourself". I fell in love but didnt had money to pay for EVE. So played for 7days (back then there where 7day trial accounts). And later I tried on a new trial, and again
But now I keep on playing ;)
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Kanibal
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Posted - 2006.06.01 16:21:00 -
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Originally by: Rellik B00n
Didnt have the time to be an uber FPS-er anymore.
Which is ironic cause im on EVE 8 hours a day.
hehe almost same for me.
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Cummilla
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Posted - 2006.06.01 17:11:00 -
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Originally by: WaelCyrge
I was wondering, when I started playing Eve I had never heard about it before. My friend had been hooked from the beginning and he send me a trial through the buddy program... and now IÆm hooked! How was it for you guys, why did you start playing Eve?
I'm antisocial IRL and Eve really caters to us malcontents like that.
Oh wait, I'm starting to believe what the carebears say about why I pirate.
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Harpezza
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Posted - 2006.06.01 17:12:00 -
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I was in a filthy public toilet, and as i was taking a leak i started reading the stuff people had written on the walls, you know, stuff like "call Dan for sex on this number" etc. I noticed someone had carved the words eve online into the wall. At the time i didnt think anything of it. When i got home i was bored and typing random things into google and remembered what i saw in the toilet so i typed eve online into google.
So remember to read things on bathroom walls, it could change your life. |
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 -
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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 -
[70]
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 -
[71]
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 -
[72]
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 -
[73]
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 -
[74]
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 -
[75]
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 -
[76]
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 -
[77]
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
condition
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Psym0n
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Posted - 2006.06.02 15:15:00 -
[78]
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 -
[79]
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 -
[80]
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 -
[81]
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 -
[82]
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 -
[83]
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 -
[84]
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 -
[85]
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 -
[86]
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 -
[87]
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 -
[88]
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 -
[89]
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
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Karunel
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Posted - 2006.06.02 17:36:00 -
[90]
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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Samirol
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Posted - 2006.06.02 17:38:00 -
[91]
I got a box copy as a quick-run-to-the-video-store birthday present from a friend. I played for about 2 months over multiple characters but really didn't have the patience for the game. Came back 6 months later with more patience in me and haven't stopped since.
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prathe
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Posted - 2006.06.03 01:38:00 -
[92]
Edited by: prathe on 03/06/2006 01:41:20
played EQ first , the whole time thinking wow they should make a sci-fi game like this but with battleships and such . plus EQ sucked not because of what it was but because everyone was way ahead of me so i got sick of being always just a few more levels then you can go there and there blah blah
E&B came out bought it and grinded my way to the top level 150 PW and thought well now what ?
I bought eve the day it came out here and tried it for a couple of days than thought it's cool but you know im so far in e&b why switch . then e&b got canned came right back to eve and that was that .
I look at other mmo's but none are even close to this .
One other thing i noticed about eve i put so much time into it that i dont spend alot of my free time wasting money like i used to . I actually have been doing quite shockingly well financially since i got into eve
oh yeah and eve was a very similar mmo version of my FAV pc game of all time HOMEWORLD
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Mika Lauer
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Posted - 2006.06.03 02:19:00 -
[93]
I've played SWG, WoW, EQ2, E&B and all sorts of other small MMO's. The only two i've stuck with for a long chunk of time has been EVE and early SWG.
Not sure why, I hate how it takes so long to train some skills, but I just love it overall and hate the whole "experience/levels" crap like in other mmo's.
It's also one of those games I feel I can let run in the background, and come back to it when I feel like it.
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Reverie X4
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Posted - 2006.06.03 02:40:00 -
[94]
mmorpg.com.
Played trial, never looked back.
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Akasha Kadore
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Posted - 2006.06.03 02:48:00 -
[95]
I seen a preview in pc gamer uk dicided to look it up, signed up for the beta and been here ever since, well apart from a small break to try wow, (yes I know I said wow shoot me now.
I get ****ed with ccp now and again and stop playing but I cant stop comming back.
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Double TaP
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Posted - 2006.06.03 04:27:00 -
[96]
I had always only played the fps games. I was on a particularly heavy BF1942 binge back in early 04 when gamespy was giving away free trials to EVE online. Never even really heard of a mmo game until then, and it amazed me. Been here ever since. Funny enough, i got WoW from someone this past christmas and tried to play it for a month. Couldn't do it. Glad I found out about eve first, otherwise i wouldve branded off mmo games as idioticly boring.
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Lorth
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Posted - 2006.06.03 06:03:00 -
[97]
Edited by: Lorth on 03/06/2006 06:04:01
I was part of a small BF 1942 clan. Before the time of punkbuster we had lots of trouble with cheaters.
I was browsing a cheater forum looking for programs, and then seeing what they actually did, so better to catch the guys doing it on our server. (off topic, but you have no idea how many people actually were cheating in that game unless you ran a server)
Anyways, this forum had a 'other games section' that mentioned eve a couple times. So I came here, tryed it out, and here I am.
Oh I might not have actually came. But that very day I found a copy of eve-online in the bargin bin at a local games store for $5 canadien. Still have one other CD key and an unopened box as well.
PS. Don't ever try and accuse me of cheating.
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WaelCyrge
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Posted - 2006.06.05 12:43:00 -
[98]
Everyone seem to been here for such a long time, is nobody a n00b like me? Kinda get the feeling that I'm alone
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Jonathan Davis
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Posted - 2006.06.05 13:12:00 -
[99]
Edited by: Jonathan Davis on 05/06/2006 13:12:45
I was browsing the net for a good SciFi MMORPG (would be my first one, I have never been one for wizards and elves and Neocron hadn't yet accepted me into Beta) and found EVE, also in its beta. I applied and got accepted within a couple of days, then realised my PC was nowhere near good enough to run it (was a student at the time and had no cash to buy a new one). So then I had to wait for months, till release, then till my bro bought a good PC for himself and got EVE so I could get a small taste of it when he would let me mine for him. Finally, in 10/03, I got my hands on my 'cant-spend-until-your-16' birth fund and sunk half of it on a PC good enough to run EVE.
I have been playing ever since
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James Raven
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Posted - 2006.06.05 13:41:00 -
[100]
A bunch of people that I run with in various other games started recounting stories of their time spent in Eve, and one where he stole a ship blueprint and posted pictures of the newly constructed beauty just hit me. It was the game I was looking for, finally found.
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I stick to my word. If I say you can go, then you can go. I honor my word. So should you. |
Hugh Ruka
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Posted - 2006.06.05 13:47:00 -
[101]
played UO and RO on free shards at uni.
then got to work, got a trial from co-worker, never left (started about when Cold War hit tq)
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Rod Blaine
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Posted - 2006.06.05 14:07:00 -
[102]
I played UO for a few years after it's launch and gave up on it about four years and a bit ago. Tried some other MMO's, looked at hordes more, and finally settled on Eve-Online after havng to let the beta slide (didn't apply since there was too little info on it for my taste).
So since about June 2003 I've been here, breaks allowing.
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