Ace Customer
Caldari
Pair O' Dice
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Posted - 2006.10.08 18:21:00 -
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I'm pretty sure this is not going to help, but it is something that I feel I must do.I'm a newer player, and I came into the game and absolutly loved it, and I will still state that I beleive this to be a great game. In fact I found it to be such a great game that I recruited my room-mate, my girlfriend, and 5 other friends to play. The intention: learn the game and start our own Corp. Now let's examine where everyone is now in my group.
My roomate left the game for EQII again, his first love, and honestly the decision had nothing to do with the server issues. Of the 5 friends, one of them so loved the game that like me he bought a second account, and started to work on them both, before Dragon. After Dragon he decided to drop one of the characters since he was running into a lot of lag issues and assumed it to be running 2 characters at the same time. Unfortunately, that did not solve his lag issues, and now he keeps his skills going on the character he still has in hopes that the problem will be solved, but if it is not, he intends to go back to WoW with the next expansion, and does not even play anymore. His room-mate; also keeps his skills up, doesn't play, and is waiting for WoW, but is actively playing WoW in the meantime.Two more of the friends recruited to this game were brothers, one lost his second 60mil (after mods) BC to lag, and packed up to play EQII with my roomate; his brother, enjoying the social interaction of friends followed suit. The last friend, packed it up within a couple of weeks, and claims it was issues with lag, I'm not completly convinced that's the only reason, he was having issues with the learning curve as well, but it certainly contributed.
Now that leaves myself and my GF. We both still play, and we both love the game, but now we play without the benifit of R/L friends, and I usually run one or two missions on a weekend (my days off), and get disgusted with the lag and find something else to do. If the problems persist, we will likely leave the game as well, and that is not stated as a threat, just a reality of the situation.
Lag is rough in any game, but in EVE, it is even more so. CCP, you have created a great game, one in which death means a lot. When you loose a ship, even with insurance, it hits you hard. ISK is easy to come by if you work for it, but to loose that hard earned ISK to lag is not a happy experience. Your game is great, but it is not so great that we will willingly continue to pay real life cash, to continue to be hosed by lag. Your game is no cheaper than any other game, and I will grant you it is much better than the others, IMHO, but it is not a viable finacial choice to continue to pay for hope.
I've said my peace, and I do hope it will not fall upon deaf ears, but only time will tell.
"You keep using that word.... I do not think it means what you think it means."
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