Zareph
Minmatar
The Black Fleet
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Posted - 2006.08.28 22:29:00 -
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I thought I'd provide some insight from someone who only recently discovered EVE in 2006 and played WoW from its launch date until Nov 2006.
I'm not sure how, but I didn't know about EVE until I joined at the end of 2005.
I played from Nov 2005 until about late Jan 2006, and then I stopped for a bit. I re-activated my account at the beginning of august, and due to personal time I'm going to let it stop at the beginning of September.
However, comparing the two games.
WoW is built solely around keeping you online by giving you a little risk/little reward system where you bang away to get to 60, and then bang away to get the gear. For me banging away to 60 was fun, but then having to run the same instance dungeon 50 times a week hoping your one piece of armor would drop got old, fast. I did have a nice guild of core people but our 'main tank' got loot crazy, bailed, and destroyed our guild. That's why I quit playing, because once you're not having fun with people (we communicated via teamspeak) it was no fun anymore.
EVE has a hook, and that is skill training. If you want the l33t skills you have to sit there and train for a month. That keeps you online. In the meantime however because of the skill vs. level system you can show up in 2005 after everyone else has been playing for 2+ years and not be left in n00b area too badly. Though in my case you could be mining away completely obvlivious to the fact that 0.6 space is deadly to a n00b in their first cruiser and you could get podded on principle (and then asked to join the corp, nice recruitement model we had there)
But being a n00b I had no idea how the world works in EVE. Because I joined a pirate corp, I'm deemed a pirate. Even though I never actually shot at another live person, and just wanted to play with the mining. Unfortunately my personal time is limited so I couldn't play, and my brother got bored and went back to WoW to grind out 4 more level 60s since then. When you don't know a soul, are in a pirate corp, and in the US it's rather hard to start afresh and find a new 'guild' or corp to join, everyone thinks you're a spy. This new scam will make it even worse for us n00bs. :)
Love the graphics, and I do love the fact that if you're an idiot and put your ship on autopilot to a spot and walk off to get some tea you could very well findyourself in little pieces because the 0.3 you shortcut through is gate camped and your nice new battlecruiser is floating in little pieces because you thought you were on a bat in WoW and were safe.
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