Lupe Meza
Hedion University
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2015.05.06 21:15:18 -
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Lina Sovereign wrote:WoW is the best PvE RP game, you can't deny it, lore & raids are awesome.
Now EvE's a sandbox where players are writing their own story, goals are very different, and it's useless to compare them.
That said, we are not better because we play at EvE, we just like this kind of game, that's all.
Pretty much. But the chest beating is pretty entertaining.
Both games excel at what they set out to do and there is good reason why WoW is a metric by which all MMO's are measured. I did my 3 years, eventually lost interest. But I'm not going to pretend I didn't enjoy it while I played it like some type of videogame hipster.
I had fun, until I didn't, and eventually moved on. Not because of any fault of the game, my priorities have shifted priorities and I could no longer reconcile devoting so much freetime to the never ending gear grind and arena seasons. I just can't be bothered to progress in something to have it wiped away and then start again. The journey was enjoyable to be sure, but I just couldn't keep doing it, no longer having that kind of time.
EVE is the only MMO I'm actively playing solely because of it's design. Depending on the amount of time I have I have a bunch of things I can log on and do and barring dying in a ball of flame my "progression" will be there a day, a week, or a month later. My characters advance without me having to actively do things like "leveling". Not that there is anything wrong with games that use this system, but I tend to be left in the dust. I used to be a hardcore gamer but as I got older, not necessarily from desire but from a lack of time and shifting priorities, I've become more and more casual.
While that is a dirty word to many that play EVE as if you are not playing 23 hours a day with a bucket next you, you're doing it wrong; it is that complicated, obscure, and sometimes convoluted game mechanics aside this game is actually very casual friendly in it's design. There is no endgame content to get. A level 5 skill will be a level 5 skill forever; no need to prepare for the level 6 skills next patch. A player in the blingiest ship will still die in a ball of fire to a ship that costs a couple of million, unlike some level 80(or whatever the cap is now in WoW) decked out in the best PVP gear. You can go where you want, when you want, from Day 1 in EVE.
It's just a totally different experience from most MMO's. I'm not going to say it is better or worse intrinsically "because it is EVE and so difficult etc." because difficulty doesn't make a game good in and of itself.
While it can and does need improvements, EVE is not perfect, fears of it turning into "WoW" are overreactions. There is plenty of room for changes to EVE that improve the appeal and experience without the game losing its identity. Improving balance and accessibility aren't negative in and of themselves and crucial parts of any game. The game is 12 years old. If it is going to be around another 12 it will need to "adapt or die"; but I doubt it will ever get the SWG treatment and abandon its core.
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