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Beta Maoye
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Posted - 2016.08.06 19:22:37 -
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Eve has many emerging competitors that are taking players away. Eve game mechanic is getting old and familiar to players. Other games offer similar experience too. Fixing old issues cannot give the game edge over other competitors. Unless Eve can offer truly innovative features to identify itself, it will be getting more difficult to compete for the same set of players against other new games that offer similar features and more. |
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Posted - 2016.08.07 02:50:53 -
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Ralph King-Griffin wrote:Beta Maoye wrote:Eve has many emerging competitors that are taking players away. Eve game mechanic is getting old and familiar to players. Other games offer similar experience too. Fixing old issues cannot give the game edge over other competitors. Unless Eve can offer truly innovative features to identify itself, it will be getting more difficult to compete for the same set of players against other new games that offer similar features and more. Eve has truly innovative features that identify it, the bears never cease complaining about them.
The game was truly an amazingly innovative mmo a decade ago, but the edge has not much left now. Look, the reality is number of online players are declining. MMO is all about connection between players. If the down tredning of population continues and passes a certain threshold, it might trigger a death spiral effect. One way or another, they have to stop the bleeding. Cherishing the memory of good old days cannot solve the problem. |
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Posted - 2016.08.07 05:27:49 -
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Teckos Pech wrote:Beta Maoye wrote:Ralph King-Griffin wrote:Beta Maoye wrote:Eve has many emerging competitors that are taking players away. Eve game mechanic is getting old and familiar to players. Other games offer similar experience too. Fixing old issues cannot give the game edge over other competitors. Unless Eve can offer truly innovative features to identify itself, it will be getting more difficult to compete for the same set of players against other new games that offer similar features and more. Eve has truly innovative features that identify it, the bears never cease complaining about them. The game was truly an amazingly innovative mmo a decade ago, but the edge has not much left now. Look, the reality is number of online players are declining. MMO is all about connection between players. If the down tredning of population continues and passes a certain threshold, it might trigger a death spiral effect. One way or another, they have to stop the bleeding. Cherishing the memory of good old days cannot solve the problem. No. The source of innovation are players.
The increasing number of competitors out there cannot be ignored. Player created content is a wonderful idea. Irony is that innovative players like to exercise their creative thinking in innovative games. Eve is losing these creative players to other competitors. |
Beta Maoye
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Posted - 2016.08.12 14:15:28 -
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Extract a database of all about the lost players for the past 3 years. Analyze their daily activities that they spent most time in the game. Form a list of activities from the most popular to the least popular. Compare these activities with similar features that provided by competitors. Honestly sort out the advantages or disadvantages of EVE against competitors for these activities. A general picture of why the game is losing players will be revealed. |
Beta Maoye
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Posted - 2016.08.12 14:45:15 -
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Solecist Project wrote:Beta Maoye wrote:Extract a database of all about the lost players for the past 3 years. Analyze their daily activities that they spent most time in the game. Form a list of activities from the most popular to the least popular. Compare these activities with similar features that provided by competitors. Honestly sort out the advantages or disadvantages of EVE against competitors for these activities. A general picture of why the game is losing players will be revealed. Invalid. This works only for games that are equal. EVE works on completely different base mechanics than the crap you seem to be playing ... ... which is tailored to the masses to enjoy. And we all know the masses. They're horrible.
EVE is a game and a business. It requires enough mass to support whatever the ideology that elite players wanted the game to have. If the game cannot survive, the EVE universe does not exist. The game has to find a balance of play styles for the mass and the elites. Partiality for either side is not good for the survival of the game. |
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Posted - 2016.08.12 16:44:16 -
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Jenn aSide wrote:Beta Maoye wrote:
EVE is a game and a business. It requires enough mass to support whatever the ideology that elite players wanted the game to have. If the game cannot survive, the EVE universe does not exist. The game has to find a balance of play styles for the mass and the elites. Partiality for either side is not good for the survival of the game.
No it doesn't need to 'find a balance'. That's the mistaken thinking many a game maker and other business person has made. Trying to achieve some kind of balance everyone finds enjoyable is as impossible an idea as establishing a feminist strip club is. Products need focus, and they also need principles to adhere to. If a Vegan restaurant starts seeing a decline in customers, the solution is not to start selling Steak...it's "make better tofu burgers".
Whether it is Steak or Tofu burgers, they can be made attractive to the mass if the chef do it right. I found the Tofu burgers from LOL, WOWS, WOT delicious. |
Beta Maoye
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Posted - 2016.08.13 13:13:22 -
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Kaivarian Coste wrote:So I've taken a month off Eve and don't see myself going back to this game anytime soon.
My primary reason is that there are so many good games on Steam/GOG these days.
And the good thing about these games is that you can mod or customise them to your taste.
With an MMO, you have no choice. You either have to like what the devs give, or quit. And playing an MMO feels like a job. If you're not playing, then you're falling behind everyone else, so what's the point?
Meh. I can't blame CCP. It's just the nature of MMOs.
It will be super cool if EVE allows player to design and trade their own skins. The marvelous advertisements in station TV proved the amazing creativity of EVE players. |
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