ToxicFire
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Posted - 2007.03.03 13:07:00 -
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 Originally by: Liquid Vision
Don't get it twisted. A LOT of people are hanging around EVE for the simple reason that it's still one of the best games around. There really isn't a plethora of other games to choose from in the MMORPG style. What. . .EQ and WOW and what else? So, most pilots aren't going to dump all the time/effort/money they've put into EVE while there isn't another suitable game to jump to.
However, I think the future for EVE looks rather bleak if things continue how they have been. More and more content being thrown out instead of legitimate fixes to bugs and game mechanics. Continued unethical standards from CCP employees. More and more pushes towards an entirely PVP centered game with severe penalties to anyone that wants to do anything else. EVE is a great game, but with all the crap that's been going on. . .if another MMORPG came along that was fun and legit I think a LOT of folks would jump ship, me included. There's a new Warhammer 40k MMORPG being built right now which, if good, would cause a lot of people to migrate. Plus, there's also Infinity Online and some other attempts at "space games" which would definitely be able to replace EVE in the "internet spaceships" department if they got up and running. Fortunately most of these projects are a good deal from completion which gives CCP time to fix stuff, but does anyone really think they will? They've shown time and time again that they are more concerned w/ selling the game to billions of communists and winning award after award instead of paying attention to their customer base.
Personally, I've stopped trying to bring people to the game and I probably won't resub after my 3 month time period is up. Of course this is just my take on EVE. There are always going to be die-hard capsuleers that, no matter what stunts CCP pull, will always play and support the game. However, I just don't think EVE is ever going to go gangbusters and become much bigger than it is now. The MMORPG market is expanding and developing which will eventually give people other good options to spend their money on. Couple that with the way CCP runs their game and the bad press it generates and I don't see how you could predict EVE to blow up and stay at the top of the pile.
If anything, eve is going in an anti-pvp direction, making it harder to earn isk, making T2 production especially more difficult, and generally increasing the grind and deemphasising the PVP.
Liquid Vision is quite right. Eve success is a mixture of reasons and not entirely been down to it been a good game until recently. Primarily this has been that eve has filled a market niche anyone that got good business sense or has taken a business course will realise the currently CCP has the home feild advantage, when it came onto the market the MMO industry was and still is predominately fantasy orientated tapping on the existing market of table top role players, and has evolved slightly to encorporate more combat orientated rather than character development styles of play. But the industry has never really catered to the sci-fi orientated market, CCP managed to hit that market niche head on and exploit it fully, but as with any market niche out there, the time your the sole provider in that area is very limited and there are a number of games in development some already coming to the market, these WILL take chunks away from eve's market share and there will be competitors that are equal and better to eve.
Though eve getting its market share bashed might be bad it may also be good. Companies fighting over players have to deal with issues very fast to prevent user loss where as CCP at the moment knows people have very little choice. So CCP does have to wake up and do something pre-emptively or it will simply loose out when the time comes. In fact i would be surprised if the dev misconduct gets remembered as the start of the end for EVE
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