DaReaper
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Joia Crenca wrote:DaReaper wrote:No, space should be big. EVE actually needs to expand. Yes PCU is low now, but by the end of next year we will have rebounded. And shrinking is stupid To answer the OP: No, EVE needs to expand. However, I've been pestering here on the forums for CCP to more effectively advertise EVE. I don't think word-of-mouth is very effective right now, and I don't see another way to get more folks aware of EVE to try it. Edit: I was wondering where the prediction of the rebounding of player count was coming from? I'd like to see it, but what information are you basing this on?
merely a feeling. Eve is currently in a rebuild and repair cycle. Its what happens when stuff has been ignored for too long.
Its kinda like, if you own a single story one room house, and you have been adding rooms on to it, but you a ****** construction worker and don;t even finish. so you made a bathroom but it was not what you planned and instead of finishing it, you went and made a kitchen. Eventually you decide you want to add a second floor, but you took classes or something and saw that there is no way your house will survive. So you have to now go back and fix all the crap you ****** up over the years, otherwise your house will collapse.
The same thing goes with eve. I have been here nearly 12 years, and i have seen ccp promise big things... only to under deliver, promise to keep working on them, then go OOOOH SHINEY! and move on tot he next 'big thing' that wasn't.
This culminated in the house nearly collapsing when they did WiS. Eve has been in repair mode since then. So you have had about 4 years of repair (from the end of 2011 till now) trying to correct old mistakes. People keep wanting eve to expand, but the issue is, it can;t unless it fixes it core issues and makes it easier for them to expand things later.
A lot of stuff that we go 'pish that's it?' are under the hood improvements. POS' are going to be dead eventually, that code removed, new sov system that can be tweeked and adjusted, new tools added so making new missions is easier. Dogma rewrite, BIAB, graphic foundations and other such things. These are all building up for an expansion of eve.
There are only two outcomes that will come form this.
1) EVE will continue the downward spiral, as its already past the point of no return (i however doubt this)
2) numbers will fall a bit more, then stablise and rebound as they finally bring in new stuff next year.
Only time will tell, but eve is on the cusp of exploding, is that explosive growth or death? I lean towards growth.
I predict the following:
EVE Vegas will have enough announcement and good things to stablise the numbers, you might even see a small bounce.
The next expansion will come out before the end of Q1 2016, with hype like crazy
Fan fest will show us something that will get the hype train going and you see a slow rebound.
The next expansion, which will prolly be Q4 2016/Q1 2017 will be new stuff and eve will climb in numbers if its not already.
Add in gun jack, which should be easily profitable, dust making money and valk which will most likely make money, and ccp will be in a better place next year.
three things can **** this up
1) if they complete screw up the cap re-balance
2) they screw up sov phase 3
3) things don;t tie together in a completed way, and stuff remains feeling 'unfinished'
Other games will not effect this, though Scam Citizen if it comes out, will light a fire under ccp's ass and eve will get better cause of it.
But i could be wrong, i just don;t see it.
*Disclaimer: I'm a ccp fan boi and very optimistic about eve's future.
OMG Comet Mining idea!!! Comet Mining!
Yes i am optimistic about eve.. i'm giving it till dec 31st 2016 before i doom n gloom
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