FreelancerAlpha
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Posted - 2007.08.14 16:04:00 -
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Yes, haha. People who are from other places, or like different things are ******S and LOSERS who deserve our mock and scorn, along with whatever things they like!
If Eve is so full of mature players, why the hell is there 2 pages of people so insecure about their hobbies that they need to bash 1 in order to promote the other?
Wow did a lot of things succesfully, and frankly you have to have played a few MMOs to understand that. It *is* a game that aims at pleasing the most people at once, so it never actually becomes "the greatest" at any particular thing. Raiders complain about ez-mode content, soloers complain about raiders superiority, traders complain about crappy market etc.
Wow is not Eve. That is its only "crime". As far as products go, the only thing that went wrong with WoW's launch was its server's instabilities due to high loads. How many other MMO companies can say the same, even after having been in the business for years? Were it possible, I'd absolutely encourage CCP to allow customisation of the interface like WoW enjoys. It goes an enormous way to streamlining gameplay. It does mean that you gotta watch for hacks, and creative uses of the game, but it also means that players build a piece of the game that often supercedes what the developers originally planned. Hell, most WoW players probably don't use the default interface.
Eve is a great game, but its not lite. A new player cannot catch an older player, a new player must invest a great deal of time to understanding concepts before he can even move his ship. He will continue to learn things about eve for months and years to come. You will never sell 5 million copies of a game like that. Because within the demographics you'll have x hundred thousand who wont even play because of the "unfairness" of not getting to powerlevel. Another x hundred thousand who feel their gameplay is disrupted by having to view what they see as an inferior interface (coders/devs will be the ones to think like that). A few million who feel that if they pay $15 a month, they shouldn't have to get podded, robbed, or otherwise harassed by accounts that aren't even paid for. A few hundred thousand who wont play because they like being godlike, and the vulnerability of all ships to other ships means they'll never get that (would YOU take a mothership/titan around without a support fleet? Is there a BS that can wtfpwn with impunity in newby zones?).
Etc etc. You see my point. Its nothing about eve being superior. Wow is a retailer who sells every item of clothing, eve is a retailer who just sells shoes.
(Note to devs, I do not mean to insult eve at all, I like it far better because its alive)
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