Reiisha
Splint Eye Probabilities Inc.
Dawn of Transcendence
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Posted - 2014.08.26 11:57:00 -
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Having played Elite recently i do wonder how long EVE is going to last.
One argument - which i've used myself before numerous times - is that EVE is simply a very different game to Elite (or WoW, or Star citizen, or whatever other game you may want to use in comparison). However, those other games offer something EVE doesn't.
It's all just little bits and pieces. A small amount of people will move to a game that specifically caters to their wishes.
Personally, i really wish EVE had more proper exploration content, as opposed to the static (star and gameplay) systems that are in place now. There's nothing left to find and what's more, the game cannot give the feeling of being lost and alone somewhere. It feels small. It's one of the aspects that draws me most to a game in space, yet EVE cannot offer it.
So, i might jump ship entirely (don't count on it though) to Elite, as it offers exactly what i want. People may join me here, losing EVE some players. It may not seem like a big deal at first, it's only a few people, good riddance etc.
However, it's not just Elite - It's also Star Citizen (a more direct competitor to Valkyrie as well), it's The Old Republic (for people who just want to run around in a scifi setting with more direct control), it's numerous other games currently existing and not released yet.
If EVE remains stagnant (as it has been since Apocrypha, realistically), it will lose little groups of players over time to other games that offer new experiences or features EVE has not implemented yet. People will go to those games first because those games offer those features already.
You'll be left with a hard core audience, for sure, however you will be left with a self destructive community - Everyone wants to be the big guy, and at that point the game might become far too frutrating for everyone involved since the 'common folk' have left the game, which in itself might lead to another breakdown.
EVE is unique, but it really needs to get moving again.
Also: The reason no one is logging in is actually different to my rant above. It's because so many activities in EVE don't actually require you to be active. POS do the work for you. PI does the work for you. Building does the work for you. You wait far more than you do anything in EVE at the moment, very little actual action is involved.
Activities in EVE should require more actual activity if the number of logged in people needs to be raised. Right now people are just going right past each other. One logs in for 5 minutes, the other logs in for 5 minutes after that, etc, untill 12 people did so. Now you have 12 people logged in after one another in that hour, but it only shows 1 the entire time at a time. You need to get those 12 people all logged in for an hour at the same time.
If you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all... |