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Alpheias
Euphoria Released Triumvirate.
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Posted - 2015.05.06 20:56:52 -
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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.
The only thing about WoW that is undeniable up to this point, is that WoW is the most successful western themepark-MMO in the west when you look at the number of subscriptions (which pales in comparison to some of the long running Asian MMOs).
Everything else is subjective.
I'd argue that I am better than a WoW player because I have yet to meet a WoW player that cannot play the game (raids and whatnot) without mods.
Agent of Chaos, Sower of Discord.
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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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Joe Atei
Aes Dei Asher
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Posted - 2015.05.06 22:20:06 -
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Alpheias wrote: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. The only thing about WoW that is undeniable up to this point, is that WoW is the most successful western themepark-MMO in the west when you look at the number of subscriptions (which pales in comparison to some of the long running Asian MMOs). Everything else is subjective. I'd argue that I am better than a WoW player because I have yet to meet a WoW player that cannot play the game (raids and whatnot) without mods.
You know what, that was always something that bugged me about the community. Hell, after the first expansion I was basically left for dead in the raid scene because I didn't want to download grid or whatever that horrible ui mod was. I will admit, towards the end of my time in WoW, I did use archud, the original one, because it allowed me to tunnel vision and know my resources at all time. Was quite the advantage. |
Gallowmere Rorschach
Enlightened Industries Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2015.05.06 22:37:31 -
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Alpheias wrote: I'd argue that I am better than a WoW player because I have yet to meet a WoW player that cannot play the game (raids and whatnot) without mods.
I'd say that's more indicative of WoW having a really ****** stock UI (which almost everyone can agree it does) than anything having to do with the players. Unless something has changed a lot in the few years since I played WoW, raiding without mods would be a lot like playing Eve without the overview. Is it doable? Absolutely. Does anyone actually want to? Maybe only the most masochistic among us. |
Jenshae Chiroptera
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Posted - 2015.05.06 23:11:15 -
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I do so love how the same people bring the same topics, with rehearsed responses into other threads, so they can try to appear as though they are intelligent.
CCP - Building ant hills and magnifying glasses for fat kids
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High Sec needs a stepping stone to other areas of space, where they can grow
Fozzie is treating a symptom.
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Mr Epeen
It's All About Me
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Posted - 2015.05.07 00:42:46 -
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I don't have a clue how to tell a WOW refugee from the 10% of EVE players that are neither current nor former WOW players.
From what I've seen you WOW refugees are the norm and not the exception, which makes me scratch my head in confusion when I see y'all bashing yourselves on a regular basis.
Anonymity only goes so far people. You spill more and more info about yourselves every time you post. I may not know who you are in real life, but I sure know from your posting that 90% of you have lived in the land of elves and fairies. So stop with the WOW rage. Or pull your hair out in front of a mirror to see the person you are actually putting down with all your insults.
Mr Epeen
There are 86,400 seconds in a day. You just saved one of them by typing 'u' instead of 'you'.-á Congratulations, dumbass!
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Gallowmere Rorschach
Enlightened Industries Goonswarm Federation
1007
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Posted - 2015.05.07 00:45:34 -
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Mr Epeen wrote:I don't have a clue how to tell a WOW refugee from the 10% of EVE players that are neither current nor former WOW players. From what I've seen you WOW refugees are the norm and not the exception, which makes me scratch my head in confusion when I see y'all bashing yourselves on a regular basis. Anonymity only goes so far people. You spill more and more info about yourselves every time you post. I may not know who you are in real life, but I sure know from your posting that 90% of you have lived in the land of elves and fairies. So stop with the WOW rage. Or pull your hair out in front of a mirror to see the person you are actually putting down with all your insults. Mr Epeen I may or may not have stabbed a few (thousand) dragons over the course of my life. I feel so ashamed. Eh, it's okay. If not for Eve being what it is, I'd never admit to having anything to do with sci-fi crap either. |
Avaelica Kuershin
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Posted - 2015.05.07 01:08:39 -
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Mr Epeen wrote:I don't have a clue how to tell a WOW refugee from the 10% of EVE players that are neither current nor former WOW players. From what I've seen you WOW refugees are the norm and not the exception, which makes me scratch my head in confusion when I see y'all bashing yourselves on a regular basis. Anonymity only goes so far people. You spill more and more info about yourselves every time you post. I may not know who you are in real life, but I sure know from your posting that 90% of you have lived in the land of elves and fairies. So stop with the WOW rage. Or pull your hair out in front of a mirror to see the person you are actually putting down with all your insults. Mr Epeen
Ah, so you've noticed that! There are the refugees who feel they are superior because they have escaped. There are the refugees who haven't fully put it behind them and want to change EvE.
Kind of reminds me of recovering nicotine addicts. (Yes, I am one of those too)
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Jenshae Chiroptera
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Posted - 2015.05.07 11:21:20 -
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Mr Epeen wrote:... I sure know from your posting that 90% of you have lived in the land of elves and fairies. ... While they played it; did they like it or were they compelled by someone in real life? WoW refugees are the people who liked the game, have lost their interest in it now due to changes done and are now either looking for a replacement or to get other games dumbed down to the levels they can enjoy them.
CCP - Building ant hills and magnifying glasses for fat kids
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High Sec needs a stepping stone to other areas of space, where they can grow
Fozzie is treating a symptom.
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Gerhard Stringfellow
Fisherbody Trading Company
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Posted - 2015.05.07 12:17:35 -
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Jenshae Chiroptera wrote:Mr Epeen wrote:... I sure know from your posting that 90% of you have lived in the land of elves and fairies. ... While they played it; did they like it or were they compelled by someone in real life? WoW refugees are the people who liked the game, have lost their interest in it now due to changes done and are now either looking for a replacement or to get other games dumbed down to the levels they can enjoy them.
I think this is a key point. I actually lost interest in WoW because I was playing it like EvE and just trading margins in the very early days of vanilla (which were absolutely lucrative, somewhere in the ballpark of 20000% markup for simply gathering schematics and trading them on AH).
But after awhile I realized I couldn't really do much with the money I'd made, and they took away zerging instances (flooding a higher level raid/etc with tons and tons of low level characters) which seemed to force a really boring way of playing where you had a certain low number of high level people running zones. I think in all honesty I played the game for maybe four months.
tl;dr I played but you couldn't really impact anything and they wanted people to play a certain way
Another pubbie elite PvE pay to win mining carebear
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Adriana Nolen
Sama Guild
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Posted - 2015.05.08 11:57:08 -
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Alpheias wrote: I'd argue that I am better than a WoW player because I have yet to meet a WoW player that cannot play the game (raids and whatnot) without mods.
& now you have. It really depends on which position they are playing. I could wing it with dps & tanking but healing required them.
Edit: People from PVP servers tend to do just fine in eve. |
Cipher Jones
The Thomas Edwards Taco Tuesday All Stars
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Posted - 2015.05.08 19:06:27 -
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Wis didn't get "shot down", it failed on the development level, then it received little support due to the huge resource investment for no payoff.
Other than being able to hack your TV to watch my little pony of course.
Also, WoW might be the best fantasy MMO RPG as far as PvE, but AA has the sandbox aspect of that beat by miles, and the PvE in Eve is incredible. So much so that both WoW and AA incorporated the PLEX system.
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Dyner
Midgard Protectorate
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Posted - 2015.05.11 17:03:17 -
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thowlimer wrote:Dyner wrote:Joe Atei wrote:Dyner wrote: -Lots of stuff-
-even more stuff than me - I used the EVE Fitter to plan out what ships I wanted. Learning Skills shaved something like 36 days off the total time. So after the basics for flying a Destroyer, I spent my time training the Learning Skills. As for Agent Guides. I meant doing what the Agent Finder does now; looking up the agent in the role you want to do (Security, Industry, R&D, etc). --I don't recall there being an easy way to find Agents from with in the game. You just kind of docked and looked. I never knew you could rebind steering to the keyboard...I'll have to give that a whirl with my Joystick Corp info/agent tab ... (and you could pull up all the corps for each faction using the info tab on faction first and their corp list)
Yes, and it's far easier, now, to find the Agent in the field you want to specialize in. |
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