Lord Guerdo
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Posted - 2003.12.03 16:49:00 -
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Great topic:
In my mind the greatest issue that EVE faces is it's lack of player base. When I started in August I could count on at least 5500 or more on line during european prime time. Now that number is way down.
Part of the problem is the death of EVE's first publishing house Simon & Schouster. This has ment no new boxes of EVE in the American Market. The only EVE CD"S available in America are those remaining from the period before S & S went out of business. This means only a small handful of EVE CD'c available in American retail stores. As a result I would guess that the number of Americans joining the game is far exceeded by the number of Americans leaving.
The low number of retail CD's in America is an issue that must be addressed. In order for EVE's dynamic economic model to work properly we will need at least 10,000 - 15,000 regular players. We will never achieve this number without American support for the game. I hope for the survival of EVE that they are working on dealing with this key issue.
I take it your an american yeah???
funnily enough its more than possible for this game to survive without the american market albeit it would be a smaller community.
imo they have a few bugs in the mechanics they really need to fix first before turning their hand to marketing. HUGE PR is needed to pick this game back up again and start the server nodes buzzing with connections.
More events need to happen in game to stimulate the word of mouth again, aswell as an advertisement campaign to get the EVE picture and name in the public eye.
Lord Guerdo
Biomass Cartel
I mean c'mon, just think about it. What would make more sense then the 3 most hated alliances teaming up to lay waste to the people they all hate anyways? CA is already allied with PA, and TPS lies between the two alliances. Natural allies to be sure. But it's not just that, all but PA (and even some of them) have adopted a "stfu and die, or come and fight us, we don't give a **** what you think or do" philosophy, as well as a PvP Kill everyone not friend kind of mentality. These are the people in eve that kill or convert, the ones dedicated to the death of others, because history, circumstance, and the rest of eve have driven then to do so (except TPS, who are just cool ass pirates ). |