Gojyu
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Posted - 2007.05.21 11:34:00 -
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As a new player, take my opinions for nought, but here's my reactions to the game as a whole.
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There are probably a number of factors. EVE is aging as a game. That is one factor.
That's probably a major factor. Even if a new player is looking for a mmog to play, it's not so much that eve's old, it's that no-one talks about it. If it wasn't for a friend casually mentioning that he used to play, I'd never have even known eve existed
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EVE is not particularly new player friendly. It has hard for new players to break out in the game, and thus they decide quickly that since they can't make a difference they leave.
It's honestly not all that bad. It was fairly easy for me to get an overall feel of the game, and I know from the forums that end-game you're pretty much a cog in your alliance's war machine, but in all honesty, you're never going to make a difference in a mmog. What happens when BoB controls the known universe? people start slowly taking it back. Nothing is permanent
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We had devs who were caught up in a scandal and its fallout for far to long. They still have not to the satisfaction of many addressed the issue appropriately. They spent almost an entire month of blogs attacking the whistleblower rather than punishing the guilty dev or providing game relevant blogs about game direction.
You've hit the nail on the head there. The first thing I learnt about ccp is that they're a fairly shady company. A company who allows the purchase of in-game items for cash as long as they get a cut, frankly, can not be particularly moral. Also, if a new player researches eve, they'll certainly find out about that particular gm misadventure
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The lag has consistently gotten worse over the last 6 months. This lag is affecting the mission runners, plexers, and pvpers the most. Anything in which there seems to be considerable objects on the same grid seems to induce lag for many.
Actually, off topic, but how do you actually check your lag? I haven't been able to find a latency measure anywhere other than clicking in space and counting how long it takes to start turning
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It is difficult to say what the long term effects will be, because it is difficult to predict what the devs might do in the future. It is likely that at the time of the next major patch we will see a small increase again. However it is also possible that EVE has had its golden age and is now entering a period of decline as games of this type do. I suppose the devs can be happy that the decline is not swift as it was for SWG after SOE introduced the NGE.
Yep. An unfortunate fact is that mmog's more than any other game have a shelf-life. The fact that the developers have moved to full digital distribution is a major telling point. Eve is a declining game. It won't burn as fast as most others, given that it occupies a niche most other games of the genre aren't after (everyone's too busy designing the next WoW to design the next eve), but eventually, every mmog's servers shut down eventually
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